We’re the counterrevolutionaries, right?”He explained: “[T]here is a minority who is trying to create a post-law, orderless, lawless society, where their might makes right. On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois spoke at New York City’s Cooper Union. The Minneapolis protester was right about the administration’s assault on the Fourth Amendment as well. It is an unlawful & morally repugnant policy that exemplifies the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real time. —Notes:https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/third-annual-message-8Abraham Lincoln, Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860, in Basler, Collected Works, 3:522–550.

Source: Washington Post January 24, 2026 07:55 UTC