> It's funny that rightists, who would have been Copperheads or on the
> Confederate side in the era of the Civil War in the United States, and
> who would have supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War, take credit
> for solving slavery, fascism, and Nazism.
Which rightists? Neocons love Lincoln like they used to love Trotsky.
> But it is a little sad to think that, among slavery, fascism, Nazism,
> and Communism (aka state socialism), only the last vanished from the
> pages of history without being militarily defeated by an external
> enemy.
That's true for Nazism. Fascism and slavery both declined at their own pace, and remnants of them arguably still exist (i.e. China and Sudan, respectively).