The Trump administration is trying to rewrite America's founding principles | By Daniel Fried for CNNOpinion
Daniel Fried is a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Future Europe Initiative and Eurasia Center. He is a former US ambassador to Poland, assistant secretary of state for Europe and National Security Council senior director for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion articles at CNN.
In 1855, Abraham Lincoln took on the American Party — an anti-immigration movement often referred to as the"Know-Nothings" — in a powerful letter that seems sadly relevant today. He wrote,"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.
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