&quot;Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant&#x27;s opinion about the war, which is that it was unjust.&quot;<p>The Republican Heritage foundation proposed Obamacare in 1994. Republican Mitt Romney pushed Obamacare into law in Massachusetts in 2004. But when Obama did it in 2010, Republicans became nasty and viciously opposed forever to Obamacare.<p>Likewise with Republicans Lincoln and Grant. The Republicans were all for annexing the southwest in 1846. Their first presidential candidate was John Charles Frémont who led the fight for the Bear Flag Republic against the Mexicans. But let Democratic president James Knox Polk take credit and the Republicans are implacably against it forever.<p>These things have all happened before and they will happen again. Typical Republicans.<p>&quot;I&#x27;m kind of amazed with how little political violence there is (like, zero) around the US-Mexico border&quot;<p>There&#x27;s zero nationalistic violence because Mexicans aren&#x27;t inclined to political violence over abstract questions. Take their land and the streets will run with blood but move the border and change which capital collects their taxes and they&#x27;re tranquil. It&#x27;s the exact opposite of the &#x27;refugees&#x27; that Europe is taking.<p>There&#x27;s a fair bit of political violence on the Mexican border over America&#x27;s Drug War, though. It&#x27;s not ISIS level but more than enough fighting for my tastes.