Watched it on National Geographic this evening.

First 10 minutes... I heard this: "Lincoln joined the new, anti-slavery party... the Republicans."

checked this with snopes......FALSE.......he was actually a vampire hunter🇨🇮

I heard he was a democrat.. there's a statue somewhere that says so.. or so I heard. .. 😟

Hmmm. Never knew he was a republican.

LOL!! That was funny!

He hated the Hindu... 😟

I heard he was the architect of the southern strategy.

Sure you did. And you also knew that the Republican party was against slavery. It's just most liberals who seem to have forgotten, or overlooked that fact.

Wasn't he the first president struck on a coin?

I heard he was shot... 😟

LOL! I was going to say that... and there it was.

For designing the southern strategy?

not just shot, but shot in the Temple...first Jewish President.

I heard he was honest

I heard he hated cherry trees... 😟

Methinks you miss the point TW is trying to make...

The Republican Party, founded in 1854, in the time of Lincoln, was the liberal and progressive party. It was the main party of the northern states and its primary platform was to oppose and end slavery in the southern states. Theodore Roosevelt's abandonment of the party when he ran for re-election in 1912 as a Progressive in support of small business, caused the shift of the GOP to the modern platform of big business and conservatism.

The Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by Andrew Jackson, were originally slave owners, conservatives and populists, and were dominant in the southern states. During the party realignment in 1912, the Democrats switched its platform to progressive liberalism.

So the Republican Party acted like today's Democrats before it became the Democrats and after the slaves were freed. Democrats were slave owners and became Republicans when the GOP switched platforms.

Kinda like both parties had a sex change operation at the same time...

My father used to own a Lincoln.........ba dum bump, I'm here all week folks, don't forget to try the veal
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Lincoln... lol wierd guy. He wanted to take all the freed slaves and send them back to Liberia because according to him, "whites and blacks could not live peacefully together in a free society."

Lincoln was a liberal.