Hyping up his almost certain to be a dead-end lawsuit against the state of New York for prosecuting his Orange God Emperor on Newsmax, far right Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey went there Monday by saying “Look, no one would’ve tolerated it if 1860 a rogue DA in South Carolina had prosecuted Lincoln for speaking out on abolition issues and taken him off the campaign trail.”
We don’t even really need to get in the weeds of political history about how presidential elections were very different in 1860 with facts like that there was no presidential ballot in the state that year since the presidential electors were chose by the state legislature until 1868 or that Lincoln wasn’t even on the ballot in the other southern states. We can just go with the fact that “a rogue DA in South Carolina” needn’t have bothered with prosecuting Lincoln because they seceded the month after he was elected and then attacked Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War the next spring.
“That’s exactly what’s happening now,” Bailey added, emphasize his point about the parallels.