This OP really made me laugh. Actually I should thank our President. Have we ever had a President so clueless about history, so narcissistic and childish?
Granted that many Democrats (and some traditional Republicans) suffer from “TDS” — but can you really blame them?
Was Trump wrong about how press treated Lincoln?
Lincoln was treated so bad that he shut down some 200 news papers, and arrested journalists (his Secretary of War Stanton did). But he did not arrested those who just disagreed with politics, he arrested those who were suspected of insurrection or fomenting it , spying, sabotage, or publishing information about troops.
Trump should follow the example.
This OP really made me laugh. Actually I should thank our President. Have we ever had a President so clueless about history, so narcissistic and childish?
Granted that many Democrats (and some traditional Republicans) suffer from “TDS” — but can you really blame them?
Was Trump wrong about how press treated Lincoln?
Lincoln was treated so bad that he shut down some 200 news papers, and arrested journalists (his Secretary of War Stanton did). But he did not arrested those who disagreed with politics, he arrested those who were suspected of insurrection or fomenting it , spying, sabotage, or publishing information about troops.
Trump should follow the example.
Hmmm, I hate to bring this up, but Lincoln imprisoned numerous people simply for questioning his policies. That includes reporters. They were accused of various bogus crimes like the ones you listed, but their only real crime was criticizing Lincoln.
I’m afraid these comments reflect the personalization of politics today, particularly the lack of historical understanding of President Trump’s “personality cult” fan club. Lincoln knowingly allowed free reign to his military commanders (and sometimes even just political supporters) to close down many pro-Confederate (and some anti-draft) newspapers NOT because they were criticizing him
personally, but because the U.S. was actively involved in a bloody war with armed rebels on U.S. soil.
Northern newspapers could not circulate freely, and Southern-published pro-Union propaganda and newspapers were even more forcefully suppressed
in the South at the same time. Indeed, for many years before the war broke out abolitionist newspapers could not even be sent through the mails in the South. Even in the North and West abolitionist publishers were violently beaten, even killed in the period before the war began. This was the terrible reality of that period of “Slave Power” ascendancy in the United States of America.
As commander-in-chief in time of war Lincoln did what he felt was necessary, and indeed many of the publishers of newspapers temporarily closed were in fact later determined to be openly working and spying for the Confederacy. None were executed. Most of the papers later re-opened under different or the very same publishers. Elections (in the North) were held during the Civil War, and hundreds of newspapers were allowed to criticize Lincoln’s war policies and personality, sometimes quite viciously.
In war, not just newspapers, but mayors and governors and enemy generals get persecuted and imprisoned, and soldiers die. Civil War is no joke. Those who compare an impeachment process, however badly or unsuccessfully carried out, to a “coup d’etat” or civil war ... don’t know what they are talking about.
