Lincoln would be a moderate democrat today though. The "radical republicans" of the era wanted to break up all the southern plantations with the whole "40 acres and a mule" as reperations for slavery. Lincoln and johnson opposed it.Originally Posted by Azar
I really don't think so. I wouldn't neccessarily say that Lincoln would be a Democrat, because every politician from his time period would be pretty shocked by the crap that goes on in politics now--but he'd definitely be a moderate, and probably a left-leaning one at that...or maybe a flat-out liberal. The party names really did a flip-flop.
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