John Leopold: As a politician, Abraham Lincoln relied on pragmatic compromise | COMMENTARY

Abraham Lincoln’s political career shows us that even our greatest political leaders have had to search for pragmatic compromises to intractable problems, and the coalition-building necessary to achieve a workable compromise requires political calculation, deal-making and the submergence of rigid ideology.

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