
HUGH HEWITT: The return of Donald Trump for his second inaugural address
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I hope Donald Trump exudes optimism and hope. I hope that our 47th president will be good-humored in another 'morning in America' moment reminiscent of his predecessor Ronald Reagan.
It is unfair to compare any inaugural address with Lincoln’s second because of its dramatic backdrop of a shattered country with more than 600,000 killed on its battlefields as a consequence of a devastating civil war, but one with the certain hope of an imminent victory by the Union. It was both a bleak but hopeful backdrop with which to work in 1865 as he messaged for the forces of freedom and the Union and also to the defeated and soon-to-be defeated enemy who were also soon to be reunited as countrymen.
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