Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Sunday used her appearance on CNN to tar Republicans against the left-wing “voting rights” agenda as no better than the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Goodwin recalled how “in the last speech he makes...a few days before he dies,” Lincoln talked about “extending the right to vote to African-Americans who had fought in the war. He then loses his life because that speech was where John Wilkes Booth heard him give that speech and decided now it’s time to kill him.”
Drawing parallels to today, she then charged: “And here we are, 150 years later, and there are people in the country now trying to get the idea that voting rights should be pulled back, rather than pushed forward.”
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