Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?
The Political Orphanage
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The Cognitive Landscape of the American Republic Up to the 20s
Hiram: I'm not aware of a single time that Abraham Lincoln said left wing or right wing. He would go granular and talk about specific issues. So yeah, this came very recently. You start to see it creep in in the late 19s. The reason for that is the Bolshevik Revolution was heating up. And so they kind of resurrected that French Revolution, those French Revolution terms.
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