The interesting thing to me abt Lincoln is his inconsistency. His 1st and 2nd inaugural speeches sound like two completely different people
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1865 Lincoln sounds exactly like the person 1861 Lincoln was stridently insisting he was not
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Maybe he really did grow more empathy for the enslaved, maybe it was cynical politics, maybe the war drove him into a revenge mindset
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People have been pushing all three of those theories for decades
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But you can't deny that even if it was insincere the words of Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural are "holy shit" level militant
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