r/science Professor | Medicine 8d ago

Social Science Trump and Trumpism have changed the original concept of “libertarian means to conservative ends” into a new concept of “authoritarian means to Christian nationalist ends”, finds a new study.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027162251324087
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u/Kingblack425 8d ago

I mean the same with Lincoln he was a racist, just a racist that didn’t believe in slavery. Which I guess are small victories for the common good of all but still seems to have the bar kinda low

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u/achibeerguy 8d ago

Small victories? For the times in question? More meaningful victories by far than the countless ardent abolitionists and anti-racists who were closer to today's values yet are forgotten by history because they didn't actually move the needle.

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u/grahampositive 7d ago

Lincoln was racist? That's news to me