The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has decided to join the conversation around the U.S. Civil War.
On Thursday, the party’s X, formerly Twitter, account wrote, “Oh we’re talking about the Civil War today?”
It also shared a graphic comparing President Abraham Lincoln and the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden.
The graphic featured several categories, such as the number of Americans “murdered,” the “economic cost” and the “justification” for the Civil War and the terrorist attack.
However, it compared the death toll from the Civil War to just the terrorist attack.
It claimed the Civil War was designed to “expand DC control of Southern lands,” while 9/11 was designed to “regain Arab control of land from DC imperialism.”
oh we're talking about the Civil War today? pic.twitter.com/nCY1D1el0N
— Libertarian Party NH 🦔 (@LPNH) December 28, 2023
The comparison comes after 2024 Republican presidential hopeful and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was criticized for her answer to a question about what caused the Civil War.
During a campaign event, an attendee asked, “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?”
“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms of what people could and couldn’t do,” Haley responded.
She then asked the man what he thought the cause of the war was, however, he declined to answer her question.
However, the man shot back, “In 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you would answer that question without mentioning the word slavery.”
Haley then asked, “What do you want me to say about slavery?”
During an interview with “The Pulse of NH” on Thursday, Haley tried to clean up her initial answer as she said, “The Civil War was about slavery. We know that. That’s the easy part of it.”
“What I was saying was what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That’s what that was all about. It was about individual freedom, it was about economic freedom, it was about individual rights,” she added.