OPINION: Abraham Lincoln would be disgusted by today’s GOP standard bearers
Imagine the shock, dismay and disgust Abraham Lincoln would feel about the state and national leadership of his beloved Republican Party, if he were to return to life today. He would find a leadership of the Grand Old Party dedicated to white nationalism, nativism and moral decay. He would undoubtedly feel that GOP leaders had wrongfully seized the GOP label and attached it to a group that opposed almost everything he stood for.
Throughout his political life, Lincoln strongly supported immigrants and immigration. In his stirring Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19,1863, the Great Emancipator proclaimed that America “was dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal.” In his annual address to Congress a month later, he called for passage of an immigration bill to promote immigration and welcome immigrants to the country as “a source of national wealth and strength.” His Republican successors carried the message of inclusion, equality and decency for a century following his assassination.
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