I was very struck. Alan Guelzo's an extraordinary professor of Abraham Lincoln. And Guelzo wrote me at one point in the 2004 campaign and said The level of vitriol against Trump resembles the level of vitriol against Lincoln among Southern slaveholders in the 1860 campaign. He said you can draw almost an exact parallel of. And it's because both the left in its modern form and the slaveholders actually saw their way of life about to be extinguished. (30:23–30:33)
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Asserts that the opposition to Trump is similar to the opposition Lincoln faced from Southern slaveholders in 1860.
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