It’s really smart because if there is one thing I know about Lincoln’s efforts in not being an abolitionist, it’s that it prevented a civil war from happening.
Like the whole point of Lincoln was that he realized he was fucking wrong, and that he needed to abolish slavery to preserve the union, and if he hadn't done this we would remember him as one of the worst presidents in history from our side of the Mason Dixon line.
He also learned by trying the lib way at first, by holding to an obsession with respecting the "consent of property holders" that he got from his political hero, the slave-holding liberal gradualist Henry Clay. And the slave owners in the border states spat in his face everywhere he tried voluntary compensated emancipation, including in Biden's home state of Delaware. After that the gloves came off.
And the right wingers really appreciated his nuanced take and respected the fact that he was being really generous in his compromises and didn't blow his brains all over the audience of a play.
It’s really smart because if there is one thing I know about Lincoln’s efforts in not being an abolitionist, it’s that it prevented a civil war from happening.
Like the whole point of Lincoln was that he realized he was fucking wrong, and that he needed to abolish slavery to preserve the union, and if he hadn't done this we would remember him as one of the worst presidents in history from our side of the Mason Dixon line.
He also learned by trying the lib way at first, by holding to an obsession with respecting the "consent of property holders" that he got from his political hero, the slave-holding liberal gradualist Henry Clay. And the slave owners in the border states spat in his face everywhere he tried voluntary compensated emancipation, including in Biden's home state of Delaware. After that the gloves came off.
And the right wingers really appreciated his nuanced take and respected the fact that he was being really generous in his compromises and didn't blow his brains all over the audience of a play.