Draggingtree Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 American Greatness Our New Secessionists By Roger Kimball| February 13, 2018 Item 1: “People now marvel how it came to pass that he should have been selected as the representative man of any party. His . . . efforts, imbecile in matter, disgusting in manner, have made us the laughing stock of the whole world.” Item 2: “A tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.” Item 3: “He is evidently a person of very inferior cast of character, wholly unequal to the crisis.” Item 4: “Heartfelt keening of shame and revulsion was heard throughout the land.” These nuggets refer, of course, to the president. But which president? Items 1 and 2 refer to . . . whom? If you said “Donald Trump,” you are only half right. Item 2 does refer to President Trump. It is from David Remnick’s hysterical threnody in The New Yorker, published in the early hours of November 9, 2016. But Item 1 refers not to Trump but to Abraham Lincoln. And it comes not from some rabid secessionist but from the Salem Advocate, a newspaper published in Lincoln’s home state of central Illinois. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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