>"If you hate Lincoln, you might as well just hate the United States as a whole." I think a non-trivial number of activists on the American Left really do feel

>"If you hate Lincoln, you might as well just hate the United States as a whole." I think a non-trivial number of activists on the American Left really do feel that way. I get the sense they really do believe that the United States is fundamentally flawed, if not outright evil, because it was built on slavery, patriarchy, whiteness, Native American genocide, etc.. For them, those original sins are unforgivable. This is why you see such a focus on "dismantling" facets of Americana and replacing them with something progressive.