If Abe Lincoln was resurrected ..what party would he join?

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DarthKyrie

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He'd probably have PTSD from having been shot dead. That's got to give you nightmares.

Either way he'd be very disorientated. Would take quite a while for him to adjust and get up to speed on social and political history. How do you explain Putin to someone who pre-dated Lenin? Charlottesville to someone who never heard of Hitler?

Republicans would probably 'swiftboat' him.

I don't think it would take Lincoln all that long to get up to speed, you need to remember that Lincoln was a very intelligent man as well as being physically imposing. Hitler wouldn't shock him because anti-Semitism wasn't exactly a new thing, hell this country had a shit ton of anti-Semites when Lincoln was alive. He also had to deal with those racist sons of bitches in the South who felt they needed slavery in order to make money. As far as Lenin goes, he would have been familiar with the socialist movements that were beginning to pop up in Europe seeing as most started in Prussia, we were selling Germany and the rest of Europe our railway tech and expertise during the Civil War. In some ways, the United States was responsible for those very same socialist movements, because we showed the world there was a different way to do things not based on the British monetary system.
 

blankslate

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Resurrected Abe would get with resurrected Sherman.

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Despite what people in the South think this guy is a national hero who needs to be on some U.S. currency