Jon Meacham says Trump told him last year that he could've done a deal to stop the Civil War

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On Morning Joe, Jon Meacham says Trump told him last year that he could've done a deal to stop the Civil War

Let's bust a meme.

If Trump was at the Garden of Eve he could have brokered a deal where Eve ate a pear instead.

[HoneyBadger]

1. It actually could have been doable

it nearly happened. Slavery would have eventually vanished.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850



The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, reduced sectional conflict. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provision. The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side disliked specific provisions.

Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico, as well as its claims north of the Missouri Compromise Line. It retained the Texas Panhandle and the federal government took over the state's public debt.

California was admitted as a free state with its current boundaries.

The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under the principle of popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders. In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture and their settlers were uninterested in slavery.

The slave trade (but not slavery altogether) was banned in the District of Columbia.

A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted.

The Compromise became possible after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor, who, although a slave owner, had favored excluding slavery from the Southwest. Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to opposition by both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs. Upon Clay's instruction, Douglas then divided Clay's bill into several smaller pieces and narrowly won their passage over the opposition of those with stronger views on both sides.

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3. Legal slavery persisted in some areas of the world until 2007.

Given the preponderance of Deplorables in America we might still have it.

If you were kidnapped, separated from your family, taken to a foreign land, beaten into subservience, and sold into bondage would you feel comfortable waiting decades to be freed?

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5. It still exists in America

Sex trade

[Adrahil]

2. It'd be SO EASY... just like Health Care!!!!

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4. Nobody could have expected Health Care to be so hard

I mean, Trump just has his secretary take care of his appointments and any claims. Don't we all do that?