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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Replying to @arthur_affect
1865 Lincoln sounds exactly like the person 1861 Lincoln was stridently insisting he was not
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
we usually assume it's the first inaugural that's the lie (like 2008 era Obama on marriage rights) but no real reason to
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Replying to @emerszi
I don't think either was really a lie. I think the war changed him
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whether you think it reflects well on him or not, I think the war changed his self-image from pragmatist to white savior
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I think he tried to become an idealist to retroactively justify the hundreds of thousands of deaths
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