Hmm, quite an interesting & revealing bit of history! And accounts for the German enclaves within Texas.

The names Abe Lincoln & Karl Marx don't even sound right alongside each other, but that's from today's perspective given how miseducated we are.

For sure, Lincoln would be villainized in our current political climate - but would he be, though? An Abe Lincoln personality-type espousing socialist values today would not necessarily be a failure, given how socialism is becoming more accepted among today's young people - eg., see how successful Mamdani's brand of socialism is in the heart of capitalist America, New York!

So yet another feather in Lincoln's cap. Props!