Today's Democrat Playbook Is Same One They Used To Assassinate Lincoln

Democrats Depicted President Lincoln As A "King"

Before I talk about how today's Democrat Playbook is the same one they used to get one of their followers to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, I want you to know that I find the historical comparison between the way the Democratic Party conducts itself today and the how the Democrats conducted themselves during the Civil War incredibly similar. I'm amazed that Democrats have not changed since the Civil War.

My claim that the Democratic Party's "playbook" is the same today as it was in 1865 when they incited Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln is supported by historical facts about the political landscape of the time compared to the same political landscape today.

In a historical context John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth was a staunch Confederate sympathizer and supporter of slavery. And yes, he loathed President Lincoln as if he knew the president on a personal level.

Why did John Wilkes Booth hate President Lincoln? Because Democratic Party propaganda told him to.

 
Research will tell you that John Wilkes Booth hated President Lincoln because Booth was a "White supremacist," a fanatic Confederate sympathizer, and that he had an "intense anger" over President Lincoln abolishing slavery. Research will also tell you that Booth was not a registered member of the Democratic Party.

So yes, researching Booth's supposed non-affiliation with the Democratic Party would certainly give someone the ammunition, so to speak, they need to refute my claim that John Wilkes Booth hated President Lincoln because Democratic Party propaganda told him to.

If this were a news story today on the Democrat-controlled Mainstream Media, Democrat spokespeople would be on television screaming, "See, the shooter, Booth, was not a registered Democrat."

They would say, "Because he was not a registered Democrat, his act was not incited by Democrat leaders" -- even though Democrat leaders are using hate speech to incited violence and get one of their followers to assassinate the President.

The problem with their argument is that it is a historical fact that the Confederacy was led by, funded by, and primarily supported by Democrats. We know for a fact that the vast majority of Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War were Democrats.

Republicans were not Confederate sympathizers. In fact, during the Civil War (1861–1865), there were effectively no members of the newly formed Republican Party within the Confederacy. Let's remember, the Republican Party was created to oppose the Democratic Party, and their slave owner mentality which wanted to see slavery expanded into other states as they were being admitted to the Union. That's why Democrats started the Civil War. They didn't get their way.

I'm tell you, Democrats haven't changed in more than 200 years. If they don't get their way, they become extremely violent.

We know that Booth was a staunch Confederate sympathizer who hated President Lincoln because Lincoln was a Republican. Does that sound familiar to the crazies today who hate President Trump just because he's a Republicans? You bet it does.

We know Booth was influenced by a hostile political climate. And yes, even back in the Civil War, Democrats were attacking President Lincoln for being a "King" to incite hatred and violence against Lincoln.

Did Democrats attack President Abraham Lincoln as a "King" and a "Tyrant" during the Civil War in the very same way Democrats today are attacking President Trump for acting like a "King" and "Tyrant"?

 
The answer is yes. During the Civil War, both Northern and Southern Democrats, especially those "Copperhead" Democrats in the North who rooted for the South to win, attacked President Abraham Lincoln as a "Tyrant," "Despot," and a "King". Democrats often accused him of violating the Constitution through actions like suspending habeas corpus, shutting down newspapers, and enacting military arrests during the war.

It is a valid comparison. In the 1860s, Democrats attacked President Lincoln in pamphlets and in newspapers. Democrat talking point at the time, "Lincoln has made himself a king." Democrats would say this while accusing President Lincoln of all sorts of false crimes to validate their rhetoric of calling Lincoln a "King" who they said ignored or violated the civil liberties of Americans.

Today, Democrats are using the same playbook that they used during the Civil War to get a follower like Booth to assassinate President Trump. The Democrat's modern-day attacks on President Trump are the same in that Democrats have today again likened a Republican President, in this case President Donald Trump, to a "Corrupt would-be King" and "Tyrant," even going so far as to call President Trump a "Dictator."

And, as for a person like Booth, someone who would willingly drank the Kool Aid that the Democratic Party handed out and saw Lincoln as a tyrant for suspending habeas corpus and freeing slaves, Booth viewed President Lincoln as a "King" and "Tyrant" who needed to be killed.

We know Booth's hatred for President Lincoln came from Booth blindly following Democratic Party propaganda. We know that Booth was heavily influenced by a media environment that labeled Lincoln a "King" or dictator. While we know this to be true, to be fair, besides the influence that Democratic Party's propaganda had on him, we also know that Booth's motivation to shoot President Lincoln was driven by intense personal fanatical conviction.

We know that Boothe's response to President Lincoln's speech on April 11, 1865, sent Boothe into a rage and was the tipping point. Historical records show that that's when an enraged Booth decided to escalate his plot from kidnapping to assassination, declaring, "That is the last speech he will ever make".

Where's The Lesson? 

Well, while I would rather be publishing interesting stories from the pages of Old West newspapers, let's be real clear over the fact that the political hatred, the vile rhetoric, all meant to incite a follower of the Democratic Party to assassinate President Trump mirrors what took place by Democrats leading up to and during the Civil War. That's the lesson here. 

As I said in my last post, since President Trump's first term in office from 2017 to 2021, a lot of Democrat politicians, celebrities, and influencers have made statements that could only be interpreted as inciting their followers to assassinate of President Trump. And yes, in my last post, I gave quite a few examples of such hate speech attempting to incite some simple-minded Democrats to carry out another assassination attempt on President Trump.

 
As for President Lincoln, Democrats successfully incited violence against him. In fact, there were several known plots and attempts on President Abraham Lincoln's life by Confederate sympathizers or agents between 1861 and 1865. While only one was successful, there were four serious instances by Democrats with pro-Confederate motives:

The Baltimore Plot in February of 1861. That took place before Lincoln's first inauguration. It had to do with a conspiracy by Maryland Confederate sympathizers. The plot by those Democrats was uncovered in time, though it did force the new President to secretly pass through Baltimore to avoid an planned ambush.

The Yellow Fever Plot of December 1863 was a plot to infect the White House with Yellow Fever by using contaminated clothing. The Democrats who proposed that, failed.

The Sniper Attempt in August of 1864 took place when a sniper shot at President Lincoln as he rode unguarded toward the Soldiers' Home. The bullet missed his head by inches, but passed through his hat. While the shooter was never identified, it was believed to been a Democrats who again was a Confederate sympathizer.

The Final Assassination Plot led by John Wilkes Booth was initially meant kidnap President Lincoln in March 1865. Some say Booth wanted to exchange Lincoln for high-ranking Confederate prisoners-of-war. Some say he wanted to force Lincoln at gunpoint an order to rescind the Emancipation Proclamation. It's said that after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1865, that Booth decided to assassinate the President -- which he did on April 14, 1865.

So how bad did Democrats want President Lincoln dead during the Civil War, and at the end of the Civil War after General Lee's surrender? 

Well, it is believed that Democrats attempted to blow up the White House to "decapitate" the United States government under President Abraham Lincoln. 

Yes, it's true. And yes, that brings me to the historical account of Confederate assassin Thomas F. Harney. He was a Confederate Army explosives expert who was dispatched from Richmond on or about April 1, 1865, to kill President Lincoln, the president's family, and the president's entire Cabinet and their families by blowing up the White House.

Harney's plan was to use mines to blow up the White House. The attack was intended to occur while President Lincoln, the president's family, and the president's entire Cabinet and their families, were gathered to listen to a public serenade. You have to really want someone dead if you're willing to kill them and their families. Harney saw no problem with it.

The plot to kill President Lincoln and his Cabinet was slated for early April 1865. It was actually supposed to happen just days before John Wilkes Booth's successful assassination of Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

Fortunately for President Lincoln, his family, and his Cabinet members and their families, Harney was arrested on April 10, 1865, before he could carry out his plan. A Union Army cavalry unit en route to Washington, DC, found Harney, realized his plan and immediately arrested him.

History is repeating itself.

No matter what the Democratic Party's talking points are, Americans can see that today's Democratic Playbook focuses on hatred for President Trump, inciting violence, and being for anything that Trump is against. The Democratic Party's strategy today is viewed as a direct militaristic opposition to President Trump -- the same way the Democrats were in direct opposition to President Lincoln.

Just as Democrats, as the Democratic Party's propaganda and demonization of Republican President Lincoln during the Civil War led to multiple assassination attempts on his life, Democratic Party propaganda and demonization of Republican President Trump has lead to multiple attempts on President Trump's life.

History teaches us that nothing has changed, that Democrats are still the same people that they've always been. And frankly, people aren't blind to what's going on.

Millions of Americans, and the millions of people in countries all over the world, are watching Democrats in the United Stats plot and scheme the demise of President Donald Trump. Everyone can see it. Democrats today aren't even hiding their desire for someone to kill the President. They are very open about it. In fact, I'd say Democrats today don't seem to care if people know that they want President Trump killed. 

As for the rest of the us, we are all watching Democrats act out exactly as they did during the Civil War when they tried to incite their followers to assassinate Republican President Abraham Lincoln. We can only pray that Democrats don't find their 2026 version of John Wilkes Booth and that history has a different outcome.

Tom Correa