Political parties have sought to tie the other side's leaders to its loud extremists as long as there's been a 2-party system, whether the extremists were righteous or whether they were evil. Douglas-era Democrats also tried to tie Lincoln to John Brown, who was a murderer.https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1150562851846840322 …
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(John Brown's cause was righteous, as Lincoln acknowledged. But he also massacred innocent people in Kansas. The first victim of his Harper's Ferry raid was an innocent black man.)
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