Hating Lincoln
It actually wouldn’t be hard for Trump to be more popular among Republicans than Abraham Lincoln was in his day.
by Robert Spencer

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"Just before Lincoln took office, the Salem Advocate from his home state of Illinois editorialized that “he is no more capable of becoming a statesman, nay, even a moderate one, than the braying ass can become a noble lion.” Lincoln’s “weak, wishy-washy, namby-pamby efforts, imbecile in matter, disgusting in manner, have made us the laughing stock of the whole world.”"