Tom, as you know, pro-liberty conservatives, let alone libertarians, have always dissented from the Lincoln Religion. Here is Murray on the brains of National Review, Frank S. Meyer: “Until the end of his life he insisted on pursuing the unswerving goal of repealing the New Deal system root and branch, in fact, to repeal most of the accretions of statism in American life since the Civil War. Meyer’s famous bitter critiques of Abraham Lincoln were not simply exercises in antiquarian disputation, nor of course were they defenses of racism and slavery. [20] Meyer saw clearly that the changes Lincoln wrought … Continue reading Lincoln and Libertarianism