378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
The Realignment
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The Pandemic and Lincoln's Greatness
Lincoln is a president that's in the pantheon of the great presidents, both at the historians rating presidents level and also just if you ask people in general who are great. His ability to mold popular opinion, but also to perceive it, his ability to gain credibility with the public he could then use to become a master of the different institutions of government was almost unprecedented up until the time. No president has since faced that challenge.
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