Lincoln would have been no fan of Trump. But: in 1848, "Conscience Whigs" like Charles Sumner bolted the Whigs on principle bc Zachary Taylor was a slaveholder, went third-party (Free Soil). Salmon Chase was a Free Soiler. Lincoln & Seward stuck with their party & backed Taylor.https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1257655265849155586 …
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Fascinating to wonder what would have happened if he hadn't died in office. If he hadn't, war probably breaks out in 1850. Would we have the Zachary Taylor Monument on the National Mall?
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Hard to say. He wasn't a natural politician.
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Taylor- like a lot of career Army guys didn’t have much of a domestic policy portfolio or interest.
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Yep. But also, as a career Army guy, he had little use for sectional thinking.
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