Abe & Don; A Love Story

From Honest Abe to Con Don, we’ve come a long way, baby!

Two presidents, two centuries, two polar opposite worldviews

Both Abraham Lincoln and Donald J. Trump have warned the threats to the United States come from within — not without.

In 1838, Lincoln spoke to the Young Men’s Lyceum. In it, he warned that the United States’ fall would not come from abroad, as many feared, but from within. He said:

“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”

Not to be outdone, Trump spent the last Veterans Day warning the nation that he would root out any political opponents, who he called, “vermin.”