![]() ![]() Edgar Hoover, the legendary and notorious director of the FBI. : How “What-About-Ism” Is Killing America But in another sense the patty of Lincoln has always been the party of Trump-the main difference being that the old GOP accepted the outcomes of elections as part of the required Constitutional order. It has produced three great presidents: Lincoln, the first Roosevelt, and Eisenhower and two good ones in Reagan and the first Bush. Anti-immigration has long run deep in the Republican Party. The Republican Party inherited from the Whigs a strong anti-Irish and -Italian sentiment. The Republican Party has always been one of the bottom line, and today’s GOP likewise champions white workers fearful of losing their jobs to black and Latino ones. This was an economic doctrine first, and a moral one second. But it did not want slavery to spread north and west for a simple reason: slave labor would undercut free, white labor. What gives? If you look more closely, you’ll find that the Republican Party of the Lincoln era did not, at first, want to liberate Southern slaves. Today’s Republican Party is one in which being a white supremacist is hardly a deal-breaker, yet the first Republican president Lincoln, was the Great Emancipator. : How the Party of Lincoln Has Always Been the Party of Trump THE MINDSET LIST® BLOG: How Mindsets Are Crucial in Human Affairs by Tom McBride ![]()
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