The Latest “Straussian” Neocon Lincoln Lie

After Demo-Bolshevik party activists in Colorado and Maine, some of whom dress in judges’ costumes, dictatorially and fascistically declared that Trump could not be on the ballot in those states, the neocons did what they do best:  Shout “Neo-Confederate”!!!

The Confederates did not put Lincoln on the ballot in 1860, we hear from Victor Davis Hanson, and his male bimbo/valley girl on Fox News, Jesse Watters.  Hence, the Demo-Bolsheviks are to be universally condemned for committing the grave crime of imitating (hide the children please) — Confederates!

This is a lie.  As Brion McClanahan pointed out in a recent email about his McClanahan Academy, the political parties were in charge of ballots in 1860 and the states did not take over that task until the 1880s.  Moreover, it was the Republican Party that decided to leave Lincoln off the ballot in the Southern states, believing that it would be futile.  As McClanahan wrote:

“States did not print ballots before the 1880s.  The Parties did all of the work, and without secret ballots, everyone knew who you supported.  This allowed for voter intimidation — ask Democrats in Union States during the War . . . .  Republicans bargained that they would not get a single vote in the South and therefore did not send any ballots to the cotton States.”

So why are Hanson and other neocons trumpeting this fake history, McClanahan asks.  His answer:  Because it supports their “R[epublican] good, D[emocrat] bad narrative.”

More importantly, he says, telling the truth about this “doesn’t allow them to run the South as the bogeyman thesis of American history and to virtue signal about their moral self righteousness.”  A classic example of what Clyde Wilson calls “the Yankee Problem in America.”

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