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From Lincoln to Trump: How Democrats and Republicans Fuel Today’s Chaos

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It is a long road from the party of Lincoln, from the party with 24 African-American Congressmen before 1900, to a party best embodied in the person of Donald Trump. Yet if anyone appreciated the fragility of the Union and the threat of depraved leadership, it was Lincoln himself.Trump In facing the reality of Trump, we would do well to listen to Lincoln’s address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, IL. It was the place of Lincoln’s famous prophecy: “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher." In his speech concerning the fragile Union, Lincoln envisions a leader readied to profit from our nation’s depravity and whose main concern was his own distinction. Lincoln cautioned that such a politician might manipulate our nation's moral bankruptcy into a dangerous mob spirit.

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