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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 5 Dec 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Laurie Voss

      1. This thread is wrong. To start with, the "house divided" speech launched Lincoln's 1858 Senate campaign, it wasn't during the war. The last thing Lincoln was arguing for in 1858 was crushing the slaveowners.https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1202328305321443328 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Laurie Voss @seldo
      For the record, when Lincoln said "a house divided cannot stand" he did not mean "we need to compromise with the slave owners", he meant "we are going to crush them into the dirt" and then he did. pic.twitter.com/RE4uLWynj5
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

      2. Lincoln worked hard in 1858-60 to position himself as making a modest, even conservative, case: restrict further expansion of slavery to establish the principle of its wrongness & prevent its growth. His speech made clear that the slave power was the aggressor:pic.twitter.com/h7SeOAGVYX

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

      3. Lincoln's specific grievance was the pro-slavery faction's use of the Supreme Court (in Dred Scott) to short-circuit any further effort at legislative compromise, nationalizing the issue to heighten the crisis:pic.twitter.com/VcdwTcbYZd

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Laurie Voss

      4. No, sorry, Lincoln did not start the war; that's Confederate propaganda. He won an election. He begged & pleaded for a way to keep the nation together under its existing institutions. The Confederates fired the first shot.https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1202330967119056897 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Laurie Voss @seldo
      This ad campaign is for "civility" but Lincoln started a war that killed 625,000 Americans, more than any war in history. He sacrificed 2% of the population. He drenched the continent in blood for the principle of keeping the nation unified. "Civility" my ass.
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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Laurie Voss

      5. Lincoln spent not only the spring of 1861 but much of 1862 offering every kind of compromise but two: he would not let the union dissolve, & he would not be extorted into letting slavery expand.https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1202329551239385088 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Laurie Voss @seldo
      There are certainly American presidents in history who tried to find a middle ground and a sensible compromise and you don't remember their names because they never got anything done.
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jeet Heer

      6. Both @HeerJeet & @ThePlumLineGS are conflating Lincoln's strong principles & willing to fight for the outcomes he wanted *through the political system* with today's left-wing incivility, with its heckler's vetoes, speech codes & cancel culture.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1202611355024408576 …

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      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      Good intervention by the great Eric Foner, rescuing Abraham Lincoln from the civility fetishists. Hint: it wasn't called the "the Civil War" because Lincoln was so polite. https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1202609310141943809 …
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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

          7. Lincoln greatly valued the classical liberal virtues of open debate, reason, argument, norms, coalition-building, & compromise when needed. He chatted genially at Hampton Roads with the Confederate commissioners, even while insisting he had every right to hang them.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

          8. I'm fond of this 1854 Lincoln quote, which makes explicit his willingness to stand with anyone when they are right, rather than playing tribal politics of "how dare you collaborate with those people."pic.twitter.com/cb9SY5TR2o

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

          9. Lincoln despised the Fugitive Slave Law. Was he uncompromising? In his first Inaugural, he pledged to enforce it so long as it remained law, because that is what the president's oath of office requires.pic.twitter.com/fGkZ4POUq6

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

          10. Of course, Lincoln also recognized the necessity for wartime leadership to take steps unacceptable in peacetime. He crushed rebellion, declared runaway slaves forfeit, suspended habeas corpus, even deported seditionists. But his end was always to restore the system.

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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019

          11. Lincoln is, properly, an icon of long & principled battles for political change. He gave no quarter in debate. But he's also rightly invoked as an icon of working through the system, compromising when necessary, remaining personally civil, revering written law & the Founding.

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        2. Greg Sargent‏Verified account @ThePlumLineGS 5 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @HeerJeet

          The piece literally uses the phrase "he believed working through the system was more productive" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-real-lesson-to-be-drawn-from-lincoln/2012/11/26/fd4d2674-37e5-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_blog.html …pic.twitter.com/Yc6dktTEmA

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Dec 2019
          Replying to @ThePlumLineGS @HeerJeet

          Which further undermines the notion that he was opposed to the civil resolution of problems through existing institutions, norms, & legal structures.

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        1. Mad Woman‏ @madwoman1949 5 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @HeerJeet @ThePlumLineGS

          Oops! You missed today's right wing absolutism, extra-legal machinations, centralized power, isolation, speech codes, incivility, and statist overlording. (In the interest of balanced condemnation of both sides' counter culture.)

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