Yankee, you know I appreciate your commentary, but I don’t see the logic of throwing an effortpost at people that want to cos-play as a combination of John Calhoun and Mussolini and quite clearly do not care about rights or liberties.
I’m any case, hatred for Lincoln by modern “conservatives” seems to me to speak to hatred for the conceit of America as a nation, but oh well their racism, deceptive romanticism of the Confederacy or edgy libertarianism with a complete ignorance for the importance of motive and end result over method.