A heart-pounding new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today noting that when Abraham Lincoln ran for president in 1860 he didn’t campaign himself for his most important goals, as this was “deemed unseemly in the political climate of the 1860’s”, says he nevertheless won this contentious election wherein he garnered just 39.8% of the popular vote—and when running for reelection four years later, in 1864, saw the powerful mainstream Harper’s New Monthly Magazine calling Lincoln a “Filthy Story-Teller, Despot, Liar, Thief, Braggart, Buffoon, Usurper, Fiend, and Butcher”—all of which has just been played out to near mirror image perfection 48-hours ago when top Trump ally US Attorney General William Barr appeared on the campus of Notre Dame University to deliver what can only be described as a declaration of war against his nation’s godless socialist forces—and that aside from Barr decrying the ascendancy of secularism and vowing to do all he can to assure continued religious freedom for Americans—saw him outlining the boundaries of this looming conflict with the words “During the 20th century, the free society of the United States faced off against totalitarianism, standing up and defeating fascism and communism…In the 21st century, Americans face the question of whether citizens in a free society can maintain the moral discipline and virtue necessary for the survival of free institutions”—after which he warned Trump’s enemies that they were going to lose this civil war for the soul of their nation by his declaring: “Modern secularists dismiss this idea of morality as sort of otherworldly superstition imposed by killjoy clergy…But, in fact, Judeo-Christian standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct”.  […]