{"id":13748,"date":"2019-07-03T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13748"},"modified":"2019-07-03T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T22:15:19","slug":"donald-trump-and-abe-lincoln-two-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/donald-trump-and-abe-lincoln-two-of-a-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and Abe Lincoln: Two of a Kind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mises Institute, July 3, 2019<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7180 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Logo-Mises-Institute-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/lincoln-and-trump-two-kind\">Lincoln and Trump: Two of a Kind?<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"slideshow\" class=\"group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left\">\n<div class=\"image border-secondary\">\n<div id=\"flexslider-1\" class=\"flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed\">\n<div class=\"flex-viewport\">\n<ul class=\"slides\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"date\">by <\/span><span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/profile\/james-bovard\" rel=\"author\">James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body-content clearfix\">\n<p>President Trump has outraged legions of political opponents with his plan to give a Fourth of July speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/a-stain-on-the-lincoln-memorial\/2019\/06\/06\/73c728a4-886b-11e9-a870-b9c411dc4312_story.html?utm_term=.22c282355907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> A <em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist <\/a> frets that Trump\u2019s speech will leave a \u201cstain\u201d that \u201cwon\u2019t ever completely wash away.\u201d But before any more teeth-gnashing occurs, we should recognize the surprising parallels between Trump and President Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>Trump sparked an uproar in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/827867311054974976?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> by tweeting derisively <\/a> about the \u201cso-called judge\u201d who blocked his order severely restricting immigration from seven nations. Twitter was not around in the 1860s so Lincoln never took online swipes at the judiciary. However, when Supreme Court Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/lincoln-and-taneys-great-writ-showdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Justice Roger Taney ruled in 1861 <\/a> that Lincoln had no right to suspend <em>habeas corpus<\/em> along a railroad corridor, Lincoln ignored his decision. The following year, Lincoln greatly expanded the suspension, resulting in the arrest and military trials of people who had done nothing more than insult the president. <a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jala\/2629860.0005.103\/--lincoln-administration-and-arbitrary-arrests?rgn=main;view=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Up to 15,000 northerners <\/a> became political prisoners as a result of Lincoln\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n<p>Trump mortifies the press corps and millions of non-ink-stained wretches when he denounces that the media is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\/2018\/07\/31\/trump-labels-news-media-enemy-of-the-american-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the enemy of the American people<\/a>.\u201d Lincoln refrained from such rude comments during his four years in the White House. However, on May 18, 1864, Lincoln issued an executive order for <a href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.readingroo.ms\/3\/2\/5\/3253\/3253-h\/3253-h.htm#Glink2H_4_0150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u201carrest and imprisonment of irresponsible newspaper <\/a> reporters and editors\u201d after the <em>New York World <\/em>and <em>Journal of Commerce<\/em> published an incorrect report on a pending expansion of conscription. Lincoln <a href=\"http:\/\/ocean.otr.usm.edu\/~w304644\/ajha\/americanjournalism\/fall09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> forcibly shut down 300 newspapers in the North <\/a> that were insufficiently supportive of military policies and hundreds of editors, publishers, and reporters were tossed into prison without charges.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been widely condemned for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> canceling the Obama administration mandate <\/a> compelling every public school to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Transgender rights were not an issue in the 1860s, but Lincoln\u2019s treatment of the most reviled ethnic group of his era was not his finest hour. In 1862, Lincoln approved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/300-santee-sioux-sentenced-to-hang-in-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> largest mass execution <\/a> in American history \u2014 39 Sioux Indians. In 1863, Lincoln approved brutally <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/janfeb-2013\/lincoln-no-hero-to-native-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> expelling Navajos and Apaches from the New Mexico <\/a> territory. In 1864, John Evans, a personal friend of Lincoln\u2019s and his appointee as Colorado territorial governor, launched a military campaign that culminated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/news\/remembering-the-sand-creek-massacre-the-past-is-always-with-us-7387126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the U.S. cavalry slaughtering more than 100 peaceful <\/a> Indian women and children at Sand Creek, an unprovoked attack that even Congress labeled a \u201cmassacre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was denounced for his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurbanist.org\/2017\/01\/25\/local-state-leaders-resolutely-reject-trumpian-tyranny-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tyrannical and despotic<\/a>\u201d attempt to withhold federal funds from self-proclaimed \u201csanctuary cities\u201d that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Rather than sanctuary cities, Lincoln dealt with border states that threatened to secede and he did not rely on sweet words alone. In September 1861, Lincoln sent federal troops to arrest pro-southern members of the Maryland legislature. In Kentucky, Union commanders targeted Southern sympathizers with roving \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/28\/the-wicked-war-in-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">execution squads<\/a>,\u201d as the <em>New York Times<\/em> noted. Vast swaths of southern <a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/11\/missouris-war-within-the-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Missouri were devastated and depopulated <\/a> to prevent any support for Confederate forces.<\/p>\n<p>Trump suggested in 2016 that the U.S. government could kill the families of terrorists to dissuade others from launching attacks \u2014 and to hell with Geneva Conventions rules protecting non-combatants. Lincoln also relied on a catch-all notion of collective guilt. Shortly before his 1864 march across Georgia, Union Gen. William Sherman telegramed Washington that \u201cthere is a class of people \u2014 men, women, and children \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/james-bovard-violence-chaos-and-the-expansion-of-government-power-in-1864-1406328689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> must be killed or banished <\/a> before you can hope for peace and order.\u201d Lincoln congratulated Sherman for a <a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/09\/shermans-demons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> ruthless destructive campaign that made \u201cGeorgia howl<\/a>.\u201d After Union Gen. Phil Sheridan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/burning-shenandoah-valley.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> torched much of Virginia<\/a>, Lincoln sent him a message declaring \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln8\/1:144.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext;q1=march+15%2C+1865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my own personal admiration <\/a> and gratitude for the month\u2019s operation in the Shenandoah Valley.\u201d Historians swept Lincoln\u2019s brutal tactics under the rug long before his memorial was consecrated in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Lincoln are soulmates on today\u2019s most contentious economic issue. Trump portrays imports as a pox while his trade wars are ravaging American farmers and many manufacturers. Promising high tariffs helped Lincoln capture the presidency in 1860 and he cheered in February 1861 when congressional Republicans boosted tariffs as high as 216%. The <em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/burning-shenandoah-valley.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> New York Times denounced <\/a> <\/em> that bill as a \u201cdisastrous measure\u201d that \u201calienates extensive sections of the country we seek to retain\u201d and will \u201cdeal a deadly blow \u2026 at the measures now in progress to heal our political differences.\u201d That tariff law <a href=\"https:\/\/miketgriffith.com\/files\/tariffandsecession.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> helped drive Virginia, North Carolina<\/a>, and Tennessee out of the Union, thereby making the Civil War far more destructive. Protectionism remains as idiotic now as it was 150 years ago but politicians continue to demagogue the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t expect Trump to mention any of these Lincoln debacles (except maybe tariffs) in his July 4th spiel. Trump being Trump, his speech will probably have some howlers and the media\u2019s fact checkers will lustfully throw plenty of penalty flags. But after it is all over, most Americans will remember only the fireworks they saw, the beer they drank, and maybe the hot dogs they chomped that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"view view-term-landing view-id-term_landing view-display-id-author_box audience author-box view-dom-id-13fa8bf06f776594e61e6030182d5336\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\">\n<div class=\"ds-2col-custom-fluid column node node-person-profile view-mode-author_box clearfix\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div class=\"group-top col-xs-12\">\n<p>James Bovard is the author of ten books, including 2012\u2019s <em>Public Policy Hooligan<\/em>, and 2006\u2019s <em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/em>. He has written for the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, <em>Playboy<\/em>, <em>Washington Post<\/em>, and many other publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mises Institute, July 3, 2019 Lincoln and Trump: Two of a Kind? by James Bovard President Trump has outraged legions of political opponents with his plan to give a Fourth of July speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A Washington Post columnist frets that Trump\u2019s speech will leave a \u201cstain\u201d that \u201cwon\u2019t ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[330,2041,247,753,2043,538,302,2039,2044,2047,2045,2040,409,2046,2038,410,24,2048,833,2042],"class_list":["post-13748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-apaches","tag-civil-war","tag-donald-trump","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-habeas-corpus","tag-indian-massacres","tag-kentucky","tag-military-trials","tag-missouri","tag-navajos","tag-phil-sheridan","tag-roger-taney","tag-sand-creek","tag-shenandoah-valley","tag-supreme-court","tag-transgender-bahtrooms","tag-washington-post","tag-william-sherman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Donald Trump and Abe Lincoln: Two of a Kind? - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/donald-trump-and-abe-lincoln-two-of-a-kind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donald Trump and Abe Lincoln: Two of a Kind? - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mises Institute, July 3, 2019 Lincoln and Trump: Two of a Kind? by James Bovard President Trump has outraged legions of political opponents with his plan to give a Fourth of July speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 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