Our progress in degeneracy

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Powerline

In his famous 1855 letter to his old friend Joshua Speed, Abraham Lincoln explained: I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We