The Deification of Lincoln . . . .

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The Deification of Lincoln (And the American state)

The founding fathers never argued that Americans were so morally exceptional that they therefore had a right to become the bullies of the world and attempt to remake the entire planet in their image.  That is the Lincoln legacy. Actually, the idea emanates from the New England "yankees" and their Mid-Western compatriots like Lincoln.  See Clyde Wilson's "The Yankee Problem in America."  Lincoln's own political rhetoric, which has been faithfully repeated by generations of court historians, is what the late Professor Mel Bradford called "the rhetoric of continuing revolution."  Others call it the rhetoric of "American exceptionalism."
-Thomas DiLorenzo

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/04/thomas-dilorenzo/the-deification-of-lincoln/