“Illinois University Proudly Displays Plaque Honoring ‘Democrat’ Abe Lincoln”

I’d say this is enormously embarrassing, but that’s to short shrift the amount of embarrassment that should be at play here.  But then, the progressive historicists and economic and social illiterates that populate many university Humanities and Social Sciences Departments haven’t the requisite shame to care — and beyond that, they’d merely shift into sophist mode and tell us that the Lincoln of the 1830s-his death is best understood as favoring the kinds of policies advanced by today’s Democrats, today’s Republicans being of course racists and secessionists, etc.

Truthiness, in other words.  Which is truth robbed of the inconvenience of objective fact, itself a crass remnant of the Enlightenment that was itself championed by old white slave owners.

Of course, the irony is that the Democrats seem always to need to adopt successful Republicans as being just like them, be it Obama’s claim to be like Reagan, or this kind of revisionist nonsense chiseled onto marble and hung on the walls of an institution of higher learning.

Up is down. Black is white.  Lincoln is a Democrat.