Ross Douthat has a profoundly impoverished grasp of history, or possibly he has a high tolerance for dishonest arguments. Genuinely not sure.pic.twitter.com/zANVq2xKZ1
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FDR rounded up Americans and put them in camps. Lincoln was more 'authoritarian' only by comparison to his predecessors. He was less authoritarian under the circumstances of the war than Jefferson Davis was.
of course! Internment camps very bad! Lots of very bad immigration stuff! His record should reflect this more! My point is that social security is a lasting liberal legacy and didn't require the same means as internment camps--which is counter to Douthat's whole point.
I would disagree that the plainly dangerous parts of FDR's record can be surgically separated from his ideology & worldview, but as to Ross' point, he overstates re Lincoln but it *is* true that slavery was only ended by the sword. What-if-no-war is the harder question.
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