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  • 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.