"In one of the pinnacles of rhetorical art in the United States, president Abraham Lincoln called for the country's reconciliation in his first inaugural address in 1861, invoking a powerful image: The mystic chords of memory of what once united his fellow citizens, he said, would resound again when touched by the better angels of our nature. Five weeks later, the Civil War broke out. In 1865, Lincoln became the first of four U.S. presidents to be assassinated in the nation's history."
"On Friday, Lincoln's better angels were invoked by Utah Governor Spencer Cox. He did so at a press conference, where he confirmed that the alleged killer of ultraconservative activist and MAGA leader Charlie Kirk a 22-year-old named Tyler Robinson had turned himself in. Cox, who called for reconciliation and warned against social media a cancer on our society evoked Lincoln roughly an hour after Trump, on Fox News, promised that the radical left would pay for Kirk's death."
Abraham Lincoln invoked the 'mystic chords of memory' and the 'better angels of our nature' while seeking reconciliation before the Civil War and his assassination. Donald Trump used apocalyptic rhetoric in 2017, promising the end of 'American carnage.' Utah Governor Spencer Cox invoked Lincoln's plea for unity when confirming that the alleged killer of ultraconservative activist Charlie Kirk, identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, had turned himself in. Trump vowed the radical left would 'pay' for Kirk's death and called for the death penalty, while early evidence does not link Robinson to the radical left and notes his Republican upbringing and gun enthusiasm.
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