For the Record: When Republicans were Radicals

Via.

Dinesh seems to have heard me telling him that the 1850s Republicans were the most radical party in US history, and he's not buying it.

The parties have flipped flopped since then. Know your facts cause they matter.

— Arash Ghaneian (@VegasArash) October 10, 2017

THAT'S NOT WHAT I HEAR about Lincoln's day. https://t.co/Bj56JuBwUp pic.twitter.com/WpWo7jBKe6

— TalesFromTheCryptic (@Yastreblyansky) October 12, 2017

Looks like he's reading me, but a little frightened to respond directly. He issues the following, to nobody in particular:

PARTY SWITCH? Nope. Lincoln’s case for self-improvement & keeping what we make is still the core principle of GOP https://t.co/mGBmJ3MWW9

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 12, 2017

What Lincoln is talking about in that speech is "keeping what we make" from rent-seeking capitalists. Learn to read.

— TalesFromTheCryptic (@Yastreblyansky) October 12, 2017

Or ask a conservative who has read something. LIke an "Austrian" economist denouncing Lincoln's leftist tax policy. https://t.co/GNfm9hApp0

— TalesFromTheCryptic (@Yastreblyansky) October 12, 2017

As expressed in Lincoln's tax policy. And that Confederacy was in principle in the right (privately, of course, they don't oppose slavery).

— TalesFromTheCryptic (@Yastreblyansky) October 12, 2017

Bu more radical: Public investment especially for educating workers to make them independent of "crowned-king, money-king, land-king". pic.twitter.com/VsfbCqRnT8

— TalesFromTheCryptic (@Yastreblyansky) October 12, 2017