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  • TankBombadil [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Andrew Johnson stopped America from saving itself. Not usually a great man theorist, but I can't imagine Lincoln would have undone every good thing about Reconstruction.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Lincoln: I'll make somebody who is completely opposed to my presidential project the vice president :galaxy-brain:

      • TankBombadil [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah it was a genuine moment of liberals being "compromise is our ideology." Just to appease the Democratic states that didn't secede and hoping to appease the South after conquering them. But for electoral purposes, there was no reason he needed to add Johnson to the ticket.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Big FDR being forced to pick Truman energy. The American system can't abide a president doing something good without them promising to do something bad in exchange.