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The works by more than 100 artists in the show, however, do little to support this radical conjecture.

But because their appearance immediately reframes everything audiences have heard about this seemingly militant, radical social justice warrior.

Douglass noted the paradox: For abolitionists Lincoln seemed “tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent,” yet by the measure of public sentiment he was obliged to weigh, Lincoln proved “swift, zealous, radical, and determined.”

He makes a further, more radical claim: “the idea that all human beings were created in God’s image was seminal to the creation of the modern West.”

“I think it’s a qualitative leap between calling somebody a radical leftist and a terrorist. You’re a terrorist. They can be executed summarily. That’s kind of the logic of it,” Leonard said.