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Entry: A Reply to Thomas DiLorenzo Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/a_reply_to_thomas_dilorenzo#24871 Post contents: Evan McLaren is exactly right. Bradford also understood that Lincoln's rhetorical shift is what allowed progressive proponents of global democracy, decades after Lincoln's assassination, to use his image profitably as a symbol of their aspirations. To recognize that, however, is simply to explain the history of global democrats' adoption of Lincoln; it doesn't mean that Bradford is arguing that Lincoln believed what the later progressives believed. (Any more than, say, the claim of creationists that Hitler admired Darwin means that Darwin was a Nazi.) Sent at: 2008 10 13