Lincolnesque

A year ago yesterday, I wrote: "'Trump's 'Gettysburg Address' was positively Lincolnesque...' is something no historian will say, ever."


I still believe that to be the case, but Trump did have something with Lincoln -- the guy he picked to be Secretary of State also did business with Russia:

U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”

So there's that...