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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

      Really a banner week on the Washington Post op-ed page. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/27/you-know-who-was-into-karl-marx-no-not-aoc-abraham-lincoln/ … https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-russian-asset/2019/07/26/02cf3510-afbc-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html …pic.twitter.com/i6znxNaxri

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

      🎵I'm a Communist You're a Communist He's a Communist She's a Communist Wouldn't you like to be a Communist too...🎶

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Bill Black

      That Lincoln piece is so profoundly wrongheaded it's hard to know where to start. Lincoln's view of labor & capital was purely Lockean, & his view of free labor's sacrosanct right of contract was at odds with slavery then, as it would be at odds today with progressivism.https://twitter.com/williamrblack/status/1155508766131011589 …

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      Bill Black @williamrblack
      Replying to @williamrblack @CarlPaulus @AviWoolf
      two key passages pic.twitter.com/peKeYrid4Q
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

      Yes, Karl Marx worked for men like Charles Dana & Horace Greeley. That didn't make them Marxists. Marx's own views were further radicalized by disputes with his journalistic employers over his wages.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          Also if you're going to cite Dana & Greeley as major Republican figures, worth noting that both of them turned against Grant & bolted to the Democrats by 1872, with Greeley serving as their candidate on an anti-Reconstruction platform. Grant tried to get Dana arrested for libel.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          Reference to Greeley backing "redistribution of land in the American West to the poor" is also misleading, esp compared to what Lincoln did in the Homestead Act. This was *federally owned* land. Lincoln wasn't redistributing, he was *privatizing*

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          Horace Greeley was, of course, a key Lincoln ally at times, and was also a highly erratic thinker full of crackpot ideas & shameless reversals. Other key Lincoln allies were slaveowners & nativists. Lincoln had his principles, but was a determined believer in big-tent coalitions.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          Much of 1861-76 Republican economic policy was driven by the federal government unloading its vast tracts of unsettled land. Today's progressives ignore the privatizing aspect of the Homestead Act, or how land sales drove the Morrill Act, or why the railroads were paid in land.

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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          You can only call that "redistribution" if you count taking the land away from, say, the Sioux.

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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          What did Lincoln think of big business? He had a natural American skepticism of big, but he was also a lawyer who represented big railroad companies against tort liability, & enthusiastically backed the colossal Union Pacific Railroad.

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        8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 28 Jul 2019

          Sorry, 21st century progressives: Abe Lincoln would gladly have accepted your votes, but he wasn't into your ideas. He was a free-market Lockean classical liberal & an originalist. If you want to use him against Donald Trump, you need to argue from those long-Republican premises.

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        1. Thomas Crawford‏ @ThomasC_2 28 Jul 2019
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          Thanks for breaking this terrible article down and weren’t those newspaper columns yet another job Marx pawned off on Engels?

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