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US president during the Civil War, Lincoln preserved the Union, strengthened the federal government, and led the abolition of slavery, combining civic nationalism, democratic republicanism, and progressive moral reform.
Political topics
Abraham Lincoln leans further toward progressive than 63% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where Abraham Lincoln stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Abraham Lincoln sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Armed neutrality that refuses alliances, interventions and foreign projection, yet sustains robust armed forces, compulsory service and prepared territorial defense, treating military strength as the guarantee of not being dragged into other nations wars.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
Centrism taken to its limit: it refuses any leaning on principle and seeks exact equidistance between every pole, from economics to morality, treating each dimension as a balance point to be preserved.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist38%
President of the United States (1945–1953), Truman ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, launched the Marshall Plan and the containment doctrine at the outset of the Cold War, racially integrated the armed forces, and led the United States into the Korean War.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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