Like most Lincoln cultists, Lewis Lehrman wrote a book about ONE of Lincoln’s SPEECHES (that he made seven years before becoming president) while ignoring most of his ACTIONS AND ACTUAL BEHAVIOR.   This is a very dark and dishonest “art,” but it comprises at least 90% of all “Lincoln scholarship,” especially the Straussian variety (named after the atheist/numerologist Leo Strauss).  It’s far worse than merely judging Lincoln by his political speeches alone, since word twisters like Lehrman “reinterpret” for us “what Lincoln really meant” even if the interpretations sometimes seem to be the opposite of the plain language in the speech.  They twist his words, ignore his white supremacist views, his lifelong dream of deporting all the black people, his championing of statism, the fact that he masterminded the mass murder of 350,000 fellow citizens and the destruction of the voluntary union of the founders, and they just plain lie.   On top of that, Lehrman seems in the video to know nothing at all about constitutional history.

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