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Great point by @jbouie. This isn’t the first time Lincoln’s words been misinterpreted. Here’s the @nytopinion editorializing in 1936 against overuse of the phrase by “free enterprise” critics of the New Deal. I discuss the “injudicious handling” of Lincoln’s phrase in my book.
@jbouie @nytopinion "They took Lincoln's great words, and turned them into a hymn of hate..." A 1940 piece called, "What Would Lincoln Think?," on the misuse of Lincoln by anti-New Dealers.
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@jbouie @nytopinion Republican Pennsylvania Governor Arthur James on the New Deal in 1940: "America today has free states and slave states--Our national house is divided against itself."
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@jbouie @nytopinion "Republicans Make Grand Oratorical Assault on New Deal" on Lincoln's birthday festivities, 1940. In his speech, Robert Taft called the New Deal "a modern streamlined totalitarian dictatorship."
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@jbouie @nytopinion Anti-New Dealers often compared the New Deal to slavery and 'free enterprise" to emancipation. Here Jay Cooke, the Republican City Chairman of Philadelphia, said in 1940, "the slavery of today is economic slavery."
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