How Democrats Can Learn Hardball From the Republicans of 1861

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5. In many ways, the effects of the politics are more profound...

...than the battles.

Of course the major political giant was Lincoln, but vastly underrated as a political figure is President Grant, who, though is often maligned as a President, was actually the key figure in setting the course of this country for generations of Americans, a course of justice and decency that the modern racist Republican party cannot even imagine.

He would be appalled at what his party has become.