The Republcan Congress and the Republican Party, at the time of Lincoln's assassination, and after, for decades, screwed all Americans, not just Southerners, but Southerners especially.
They would have done the same under Lincoln, even had he lived. That is why he was not the right man for the Presidency, in 1860, or later, or ever......Why?
After all, it would have been his own Republican Party, and his Republican dominated Congress, which would have, had he lived, screwed him too!
If you want proof of that, take a look at Johnson's administration. They actually did screw Lincoln's faithful Republican protege, President Johnson!
Bottom line, if you fight a Civil War, but cannot control the peace it was fought for, even within your own winning side, why then did you embark on the war in the first place?
Great question.
You can turn and twist in the logical wind, trying to refute this argument, but a politician who cannot agree on fundamental issues, even with his own party, in his own party-controlled Congress, should never have been elected in the first place.
If you take issue with that argument, then you are admitting, on the other hand, that we have a structurally flawed political system.
So, now, if you neither admit I am correct about Lincoln, and also, as well, deny that we have a structurally flawed political system, you are then in a sort of Morton's Fork situation.
How do you get out of that?
You don't.
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