MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show January 7, 2022 09:09:00
The people that something had to change, and we got abraham lincoln out of that. the sad, scary part of the 1850s is that preston brooks became a hero in the south, that the governor presented him with a silver goblet people running around with canes wanting to get other members of the antislavery movement, get seward next, they said, and part of that part of the 1850s where you had alternative realities, historians said when you saw that event and two narratives you saw there was something happening to the country. and there was a partisan grasp in the 1850s, when lincoln would be in debates ...