When Republicans who don't like Donald Trump want to show how much they don't like him, they say he is not worthy of the "party of Lincoln." But the party of Lincoln was the big-government party of protectionism, industrial policy, civil-liberties violations, and war. Lincoln was even ready to enforce slavery even though he knew it was wrong.
[Cross-posted at The Libertarian Institute.]
What a lot of libertarians do not grok about Lincoln was that Lincoln knew to a "T" where his powers began and ended. He didn't abolish slavery in areas not in rebellion because he was NOT an absolute monarch and had no such powers!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd the Confederates started the war, so they bear the blame. They started things going before Lincoln was even in office, so blaming Lincoln is kind of much-ish.