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Entry: On Lincoln-Bashing Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/on_lincoln_bashing#24893 Post contents: My fellow contributors seem to be rankled at the suggestion of any association between them and their Straussian enemies. Once again, I'd suggest that you all read Mel Bradford (especially his "The Heresy of Equality"), Richard Gamble (on Babbitt and Lincoln), and Willmoore Kendall on how Lincoln's concept of equality must inspire endless revolution at home and abroad. This reading of the "facts" is no different from that of Jaffa or Berns. (It's interesting that both camps also agree that Lincoln was a centralizing federalist who eventually set America on the way to the New Deal.) In recent memory, I can't think of other prominent paleos who have disputed this reading, though obviously they dispute other features of the Jaffaite portrait. I doubt that debate over Abe as a global democrat is a "distant secondary concern," in a time when GWB invokes Lincoln to support wars to end tyranny (recall the 2nd inaugural address of 2005?) Sent at: 2008 07 06