Abraham Lincoln or the Progressives: Who was the real father of big government?

Early Progressives co-opted Abraham Lincoln’s legacy to justify their program of expansive government powers over American life. Conservative and libertarian thinking today has assumed, that the Progressives’ appropriation of Lincoln was legitimate.

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