Beck hates Progressives but loves Lincoln. But Glenn, the progs also loved Abe. Here’s Theodore Roosevelt: “[I]n the days of Abraham Lincoln [the Republican party] was founded as the radical progressive party of the Nation. * * * It remained the Nationalist as against the particularist or State rights party, and in so far it remained absolutely sound; for little permanent good can be done by any party which worships the State’s rights fetish or which fails to regard the State, like the county or the municipality as merely a convenient unit for local self-government, while in all National matters, … Continue reading Note to Glenn Beck