The Spectre of Lincoln In New York Politics
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. August 14, 2020
To escape the highest rent district in the nation, rich millennials, multi-millionaires and even Wall Street bankers are fleeing New York for more affordable states. Others have retreated to second homes in states that are not locked down. With few customers during the lockdown, many posh businesses and restaurants, faced with ongoing astronomical costs to do business in the Big Apple, have abandoned the state.
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Prior to the 1960s nearly everyone understood that the tariff was the main issue between the Northern Yankees who wanted a very high protectionist tariff and Southerners who wanted the country to be a free zone with limited import tariffs. Everyone also understood that slavery had nothing to do with Lincoln’s launch of a military invasion on his own country.
Wearing a mask is the latest craze for American virtue signaling. People wear face masks while driving alone in their cars, in their homes, and walking down the middle of a neighborhood street alone. Is this to signal to others how politically correct they are?
Across the nation, desperate small business owners are defying unconstitutional state shutdown orders and reopening at great risks of retribution by vindictive power hungry officials.
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Following state statutes allowing him to suspend laws with his proclamations having the “force of law,” which are in 
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