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Abolitionists didn’t vote for Lincoln expecting slavery to be ended in ONLY the parts of the country still controlled by the CSA either (basically leaving it in place in practice).

That was considered “watered-down emancipation” and was only done at a politically opportune moment to only get the process going that eventually led to the emancipation of them all SEVERAL YEARS LATER. <——————

But he had to leave out the ones in the “border states” and in territory they controlled and not to make the war about that like the “purist abolitionists” wanted so that he didnt lose the entire game.

Now if something that we today see as a no-brainer decision took that much word-play, finesse, and structured roll-out over several years and phases, I think we can at least give Trump some fricking room here.

If you are telling me that you voted for Trump because you wanted his first pass at killing BOCare to actually be a further promotion of BOCare, then congrats. He’s your man.

If you are willing to accept these “victories,” which are not victories at all, yet rail against the Establishment for exactly the same things that were in the failed bill, then what have you accomplished?

I don’t see the Lincoln analogy. There he was trying to unify a divided nation by abolishing a principle that the Southern states believed was their inherent right. Here Trump is simply promoting a big government agenda in a different way, against the true will of the people in that Union.

You don’t need to a “purist” to understand that any form of BOCare, watered down or otherwise, should not be an option to a president that was elected on the mandate of destroying all of Obama’s legacy achievements.

That was considered “watered-down emancipation” and was only done because the North needed black soldiers for cannon fodder to throw at the Army of Northern Virginia.

Fixed it.