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In calling for Trump’s criminal prosecution, the Jan. 6 committee is ignoring the Lincolnian principles embodied in the 14th Amendment.

And, Avlon believes, the Lincolnian example could be a similar balm for our political wounds today.

By Lincolnian reasoning, Trump is indifferent to the fragile majesty of democratic institutions because he is impervious to the sacrifices on which they rest.

Her definition of freedom as “what we ought”, that is, what she determines, is more Orwellian than Lincolnian.

Nearly all of the shape-shifting Lincolnian personae had a moment onstage: lawyer, politician, historian, mystic, preacher, prophet.