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Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?

The Political Orphanage

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The Social Theory of Ideology

essentialist theory is the idea that there is some inherent germ to conservatism or progressivism from which all other policies spring out. The social theory says Elizabeth Warren starts with the tribe, and then she adopts everything else the tribe believes. We are saying that that is backwards.

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