Both, it seems, pariahs within their own party (the Republican in each).
You will say, Lincoln was not a demagogue. Many experts agree with you. I say, with respect to the issue of slavery, he certainly was, if only because that is the drum he incessantly beat on. Only a demagogue (Hitler had picked antisemitism, after all) would do that.....and that was his main appeal, frankly, with a white, Northern, Republican, rabble.
You might as well try to convince me that Antony, in Julius Caesar, eloquent and dignified as well, was not a demagogue, because of how he civilly couched his rhetoric against Caesar's assassins; "and Brutus is an honorable man...."
Lincoln, was at the height of his powers and popularity, one would think, had he lived, a victorious wartime Commander in Chief.
Yet he would, apparently, have been totally unable to carry through his plan for a prompt amicable reconciliation of the North and the South after the Civil War.
Trump, detested and abhorred by his own modern Republican party, as Lincoln had been by his Republican Party, looks likely to become President even in spite of that.
What is a Republican controlled Congress likely to do with his administration? Join with Democrats against him, if necessary, seems one likely answer.
Question: would Lincoln have done the same to his own Republicans, join with Democrats in Congress, had he lived, and had there been any there by then?
I doubt it, and trying it wouldn't have done him any good, with the post Civil War Congress he then faced, and with Southern representatives barred by them.
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