Walker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:28 amLincoln most famously used totalitarian powers in order to preserve the nation against the Democrats who wanted to destroy it, just as they now want to destroy the nation that was intended in the beginning.
Mark Levin resorts to a simplistic formula to bolster his historical/rhetorical position. The southern states described the actions of the northern power-structure as the (non-Constitutional) Northern War of Aggression.
If one accepts the Northern rationale that justifies extra-constitutional police and military action to annihilate a political opponent (in this case the seceding southern states) one with that argument shoots oneself in the foot. Levin in this sense undermines his own position by condoning the military operation that resulted in vast destruction on social and many other levels.
The South resisted, and resented, the northern invasion and occupation. The invasion and occupation created extremely negative conditions comparable to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The “Lincolnian” use of raw political and military power set the stage for similar operations snd occupations in the Caribbean and the invasion and occupation of the Philippines: a dictatorial, destructive occupation of a sheer brute sort. The beginning of the lie of “nation-building”.
One hundred percent in opposition to those values expressed in the Constitution.
The present collusion between the Democrat régime and the military/intelligence and federal police to defeat its tangible enemies — enemies of that New America that Lincoln conceived of as “the propositional nation” — is an
outcome of the historical processes Levin is championing.
Except now that extra-Constitutional power is being used against what he sees as “his side”. Levin is also a Zionist and “in league“ with the Neoconservative factions which brought 30-plus years of war in the Middle East.
Complicated interests, complicated rhetoric!
However simplistic arguments — Levin’s — are more easily molded into actionable rhetorical stances — a disease and a necessity in a present where nearly everyone is in the dark and cannot really
see what is going on and why.