TheRanchHand wrote:
tenia wrote:
I'm wondering if Svet's totally obvious pro-Trump stance is still vastly hilariously misguided (especially in the context of where and how it's written) or if just misguided and already not funny at all anymore.
Uh... if he was pro-Hilary would he be suddenly funny and well-guided? Good lord this political worship.....
Anyway, looking forward to this release as I saw it on TCM and loved the simple story telling. Even if Lincoln is a republican....
First off, I never found Trump's supporters funny, but what's made his administration so troubling and damaging goes beyond simple partisan politics - as different as the Clintons or Mitt Romney or John McCain, etc. may be, supporting
any of them would be far more rational.
Second, it's probably not well-known outside of the U.S. but the current two major parties were never politically consistent during their entire existence. This is true going back just a handful of decades, but it's especially true in the 19th century. In Lincoln's time, the Republican party was pushing for policies that put far more control in the federal government, which logically made sense when they were also pushing to end slavery in a divided nation.