Wednesday, April 2, 2014
To My Conservative Colleagues Who Might be Thinking that I'm a Tad too Harsh on Lincoln
Four points to consider. a) He was an absolute protectionist. b) He was a crony capitalist and thoroughly corrupt. c) He consolidated political power predominantly in Washington. And d) he was a hard-core advocate of an inflationary central bank and a huge deficit spender.
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Lincoln was the ultimate in progressive statism and power consolidation.
And he certainly laid the groundwork for guys like Hoover, FDR, Nixon, Bush 2, and Obama.
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