Trump - Clown Genius

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Riggerjack
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Re: Trump - Clown Genius

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(*) Try to go read some of Lincoln's speeches from the 1850s to see what ...
Or, if you prefer audiobooks, Richard Dreyfus read the part of Douglas in the Lincoln Douglas debates. He has a fine grasp on how to read Douglas' words with a sneer. I'm not sure the sneer is accurate, Douglas was known for his fiery speeches, but it is entertaining. Listen to them all, and try to match what they actually said to what you were taught in school about the civil war and why it was fought. Or for that matter, how they went from the debates to the war in under 2 years.

Also, there was a NYT series where they picked a story to expound upon from 150 years before. It ran for as long as the war, 2010-2014. Of course, it is the NYT, so some parts of the history were... unexplored.

A good look at the economic issues of the day can be found at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1840850 (JSTOR requires registration, but no money)

The 40 years of tariff wars had already divided the interests of the region's from each other, and the tariff of 1857 had separated the west from the South in the constant economic war the Northeast had been waging since 1816. The civil war was crony capitalism vs the nation, and the Republican party started out on the side of cronies. Some things just don't change much.

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