Posted on 09/21/2020 9:02:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump might be the most controversial president since Abraham Lincoln.
The other day Trump compared himself to Lincoln in a civil rights context and ignited another media tantrum. Surely, Trump is no match for Lincoln's lawyerly reticence or rhetorical eloquence. As for having the courage to fire arrogant or incompetent subordinates, Trump is more than Lincoln's equal.
Trump/Lincoln parallels are coming into sharp relief as another presidential election looms. Like Lincoln, Trump has a civil war on his hands; and like Lincoln faces a second term might be more hazardous than the first.
President Trump has been besieged by domestic hate, much of it inspired by a hostile press, venal generals, and the Washington establishment from day one.
Like Trump, Lincoln was an outsider, a rural lawyer from Kentucky, reviled by capitol insiders including senior military officers. In Lincoln's second run for the White House, Democrats selected the best failed Civil War general, George McClellan, as their standard bearer.
Alas, Lincoln's electoral victory in 1864 against General McClellan was insured by 11 southern Democrat states whose electoral votes were rendered moot by secession. The 16th president only had to contend with the McClellan cabal and the Democrat Party.
The difference between then and now seems to be that today's failed and embittered Vietnam era McClellans are more numerous.
Trump has to worry about insurgents in both political parties and disgruntled military mandarins like Clapper, Mattis, Hayden, McRaven, McChrystal, Stavridis, and Powell just to name a few of the most treacherous and politicized.
Lincoln had to contend with insurrections on both sides of the blue and grey divide before traitors delivered the coup de grace. In the end. John Wilkes Booth did what disloyal generals and a disgruntled Democrat Party could or would not do.
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Also, the demoncrats were not shy about calling President Lincoln an “Ape”, “The Original Gorilla” and other vile epithets.
Just like today.
“Like Trump, Lincoln was an outsider, a rural lawyer from Kentucky, reviled by capitol insiders including senior military officers.”
I did not know that President Trump was a rural lawyer from Kentucky.
You learn something new every day, don’t you?
‘The other day Trump compared himself to Lincoln’
he probably just lost the votes of half the members of this forum...
I spoke not of policies or even personalities, but of the way the demoncrats behaved towards both men.
Big Media wants us to make the assasination “connection”.
I don’t know. It took him a long time to fire sessions. He did not fire rubenstein. Or Wray. He should have fired comey much sooner.
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“The other day Trump compared himself to Lincoln’
he probably just lost the votes of half the members of this
forum...”
Not true. I am proud of my confederate ancestors and will happily vote for Trump. This will be the same with the family I have that live down South.
PDJT should stay away from the theater.
OK, I’m voting for the guy, but this is a stretch...
They both have beards except for Trump.
He’s better than Lincoln. We are in a civil war and winning without a shot! Unlike Lincoln, he never suspended habius corpus.. Where Trump is just like Lincoln? Neither can hire compentent people to help finish the job.
SHAME ON YOU!!!
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