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I have a theory about this.
("Goodness gracious," someone is thinking. "Does that woman have a theory about EVERYTHING?"
John Wilkes Booth was stunned by how his assassination of Lincoln was portrayed in the press.
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1/ https://twitter.com/gleaftus/status/1347195223936552961
("Goodness gracious," someone is thinking. "Does that woman have a theory about EVERYTHING?"
John Wilkes Booth was stunned by how his assassination of Lincoln was portrayed in the press.
(Stick with me here)
1/ https://twitter.com/gleaftus/status/1347195223936552961
He had spent so much time among like-minded people who hated Lincoln, and he had read so many accounts denouncing Lincoln as a tyrant bent on destroying the Constitution and "personal liberty" that he expected to be hailed as a hero.
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Instead he was stunned to learn that he was being hunted down like a beast, while Lincoln was held up throughout much of the nation as a martyred saint.
Source for this: The bibliography in my biography of Lincoln.
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Source for this: The bibliography in my biography of Lincoln.
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I suspect that Rudy, Trump, and the other crazies were so persuaded that millions of Americans were prepared to storm the Capitol and announce Trump the winner of the election, that all they had to do was ignite a spark and the rest would take care of itself.
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Otherwise, it makes no sense. They didn't have the manpower to actually take over the Capitol, much less seize the federal government.
Stopping the voting actually would do nothing.
I suspect that Trump, watching the coverage, felt a little like Booth.
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Stopping the voting actually would do nothing.
I suspect that Trump, watching the coverage, felt a little like Booth.
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