The strange bedfellows of Rand Paul, Part XXXVII. >>In a 2014 appearance on Fox Business The Independents, Napolitano said he is a contrarian on Lincolns legacy and bemoan[ed] the fact that the president has been mythologized. He attacked the public school establishment who would have you believe he is the fourth member of the blessed trinity. Napolitano accused Lincoln of having set about on the most murderous war in American history over slavery rather than allowing it to die because it was dying a natural death. He also argued that Lincoln possibly could have purchased slaves and then freed them, which would have cost a lot less money than the Civil War cost. Napolitano even claimed that its not even altogether clear if slavery was the reason for secession. (The Daily Show later devoted a segment to dismantling Napolitanos argument.) Napolitano claimed that Lincolns prosecution of the Civil War - described as government violence -- led to the creation of Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan. Napolitano decried the image of Lincoln as having Godlike stature because of the demonizing of the south.
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