So, not only did the respondents need to reach back 50 and 150 years to find a hero, but they are actually attempting to redefine what the "far right" is in order to co-opt a hero.
Here's what Lincoln had to say, for example:
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just - a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless."
Here's Ike:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
I'd say that's pretty extreme right-wing stuff, huh?!
YEEAAHHH... THAT'S THE TICKET!
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"attempting to redefine what the far right is"
Define what form of Government is the most "far right" form of Government?
This is what I think.
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