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As the President positions himself in the Lincoln Memorial for interviews (looking appropriately small by comparison), his supporters on social media likewise spew an array of ahistorical Trump-Lincoln memes, with others waving the Confederate flag. Dinesh D'Souza (yet another sycophantic supporter who was pardoned by the President) put forward an entire documentary nonsensically comparing Trump to Lincoln.

These comparisons don't only fall apart because of the obvious contradictions, with Trump and his supporters defending the Confederate flag, the symbol of secession and slavery that Lincoln died trying to end. Or that the Republican Party in Lincoln's time was a moderate progressive party while Democrats were the conservative populist party of their time -- like Trump's party today. (Confederates also often described themselves as fighting for liberty by defending slavery -- get your head around that).

It's not even that Trump is straining to punch well above his weight -- with Lincoln routinely ranked as the greatest US president by historians and Trump already judged as our worst even before his fatally incompetent Covid-19 response.

It's because in matters of character and temperament and political beliefs, Trump is the anti-Lincoln -- and vice versa. Let's count just some of the ways.

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