Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?
The Political Orphanage
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The History of the Left and Right in American Politics
The term left and right was used to describe Russian politics, but not American politics. In the late 1940s people like Bill Buckley started cooking up a story saying change versus preservation is the one essential issue,. Whereas Bill Buckley phrased that we are standing against history, yelling stop. We don't like progress. And so our policies, our anti-New Deal policies are defined by hatred of progress.
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