[Vendome]

Luncoln?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Trump is talking about concepts that people have forgotten.
The government is supposed to have the consent of the governed.
It doesn’t even have the respect of many, much less consent.
American citizens are sickened that their own government is more interested in helping fraudulently documented foreigners stay in this country than upholding the laws and protecting the citizens.

[Yo-Yo]

Not even close.

[x]

Maybe. When he sticks to what's on the teleprompter.

The ad lib stuff -- not so much.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"They have to consent to the laws that govern them."

... and the people who govern them.

[onedoug]

"The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to meet the occasion. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we will save our country." --Lincoln

I think I've heard reflections of this in other aspects of Trump's speeches too. Which is okay, as imitation is the severest form of flattery. Just don't get too federally grabby.

[DoughtyOne]

Quite a bit like Reagan's, but then who wants to laud Reagan?


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[Albion Wilde]

Lincoln bemoaned a national spate of lawlessness that produced lynchings and acts of brutality against various disfavored groups. This collapse of the rule of law, he argued, would ultimately lead to the rise of a tyrant and the destruction of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as our founding resources. America would thereby lose its greatness and with it “the noblest of causes—establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty.”

These themes are at the heart of Trump’s argument about law and order and civil rights. The killings of police and violent crimes against blacks have that common root—the lack of respect for life and property and the freedom to enjoy them. That contempt is demanded by Hillary Clinton’s Progressivism and furthered by her corruption.