- Posted Nov. 16, 2012 12:01 a.m.
- Writer of Lincoln movie says Abe would be a Democrat today
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Countless political observers, including me, have opined in recent years that Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t like what’s become of his Republican Party a century and a half after his presidency.
Not surprisingly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s new movie about Lincoln, has JOINED the chorus:
As his Whig Party crumbled in the middle of the fight over slavery and free territories, Abraham Lincoln had a major hand in founding the Republican Party, a northern faction that was the chief rival to the Southern-based Democrats.
Clearly, times have changed. And now, says “Lincoln” screenwriter Tony Kushner, the GOP would not be ...
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