It's symptomatic at this point. Every time he steers off into a tangent and tries to link it to his raison-d'etre, it is shallow, uninformed, etc.

I realized this first when I read his essay about childbirth on SN. It showed his deep lack of understanding and nuance in complicated topics that are outside his confort zone.

Here, somehow he starts by acknowledging history is complicated and it is hard to make definite claims, yet his essay ends up doing just that, definite claims.

`Lincoln wasn't a good president. He wasn't even a mediocre president. He was a terrible president.`

At most, say he is `not as great as he is sometimes portrayed to be.`



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On Lincoln

jimmysong

i’m a fan of jimmy, but this sort of shallow dunk on a truly significant and inspiring man just to make equally shallow points about debt, money, and government power is lame. I get that  Jimmy’s got his soapbox that his books depend on so he has to keep beating the same drum, but why drag Lincoln into it?