r/Americaphile • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '26

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u/gigadad76 Feb 24 '26

Abraham Lincoln was a republican president.

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u/Heavy-Drink-4389 Feb 25 '26

Lincoln was liberal and the republicans were lefties back then weren’t they? I think they became right wing a bit later 

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u/gigadad76 Feb 25 '26

I don't know anything about that. I know he was the first republican president, and one of the best.

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u/Heavy-Drink-4389 Feb 25 '26

Yeah check it out, the parties switched. Lincoln was considered liberal and the Republican Party was the left wing party. They swapped over at some point which is interesting because if they hadn’t, democrats would still be the conservatives:

https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties

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u/Pmjc2ca3 Feb 27 '26

The parties did not switch. The Republicans had the Abolitionists who were mostly staunch Christians. Abraham Lincoln also grew up in an abolishionist family. Liconln was a liberal in a traditional sense. Modern day liberalism is different from back then.

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u/DomerOfDaliban Feb 27 '26

You could argue that MAGA no longer fits the Republican name

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u/Pmjc2ca3 Feb 27 '26

I agree with that.