Trump has the chance to do what Reagan never even dreamed about, taking a page from Lincoln and smashing the Democratic plantation.
On immigration, too, Trump and Lincoln can be seen as generally aligned.
This point is hardly obvious, but we get a vital clue about how Lincoln would have thought about today's immigration debate but considering the position Lincoln actually took on extending civil rights-the right to full citizenship, the right to vote, the right to serve on juries-to blacks.
Trump is the only Republican on the scene today who actually has a chance to finish off the Democratic plantation.
Second, Trump must invade the Democratic plantation with creative policies that restore entrepreneurship, jobs, and opportunity to America's barrios, ghettoes and native American reservations.
Trump and the Republicans-united, calm and collected-should bring it on with the same resolve that Lincoln said, in effect, to the Democratic planters of his time: bring it on.
"The question recurs," Lincoln said of the Democrats in his Cooper Union speech in February 1860, "What will satisfy them?" And Lincoln answered, "This and only this: cease to call slavery wrong and join them in calling it right. Silence will not be tolerated-we must place ourselves avowedly with them." The enforcement of political correctness has been a Democratic strategy from Lincoln's day to our own.
https://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2018/07/27/the-lincoln-model-how-trump-can-shut-down-the-democratic-plantation-n2504084
On immigration, too, Trump and Lincoln can be seen as generally aligned.
This point is hardly obvious, but we get a vital clue about how Lincoln would have thought about today's immigration debate but considering the position Lincoln actually took on extending civil rights-the right to full citizenship, the right to vote, the right to serve on juries-to blacks.
Trump is the only Republican on the scene today who actually has a chance to finish off the Democratic plantation.
Second, Trump must invade the Democratic plantation with creative policies that restore entrepreneurship, jobs, and opportunity to America's barrios, ghettoes and native American reservations.
Trump and the Republicans-united, calm and collected-should bring it on with the same resolve that Lincoln said, in effect, to the Democratic planters of his time: bring it on.
"The question recurs," Lincoln said of the Democrats in his Cooper Union speech in February 1860, "What will satisfy them?" And Lincoln answered, "This and only this: cease to call slavery wrong and join them in calling it right. Silence will not be tolerated-we must place ourselves avowedly with them." The enforcement of political correctness has been a Democratic strategy from Lincoln's day to our own.
https://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2018/07/27/the-lincoln-model-how-trump-can-shut-down-the-democratic-plantation-n2504084
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