The Gettysburg Address is perhaps the most iconic speech in American history. Students are required to memorize it, and it has become as important to American political culture as the United States Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. This is unfortunate, because in this speech, Abraham Lincoln invented history and by doing so intellectually nuked the original federal republic.
The address was not a conservative affirmation of founding principles but a revolutionary manifesto that radically transformed America. Lincoln created a “proposition nation” at Gettysburg and crafted the greatest swindle in American political history.
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