https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/abraham-lincolnDifferent times. Different tactics. Same racism and bigotry.
Lincoln managed to hold the Union together. The south fought for many reasons. It’s main objective to preserve Slavery and expand it was and will always be a failed objective.
Like democrats you can change the argument. You can shout down and demoralize your perceived opposition but you are essentially fighting a lost cause.
You can call him names. You can dehumanize him any way you wish but you cannot change who he was and what he did to cement our future as a United States of America.
You will never change the fact that the South suffered needlessly and much more painfully because of his murder. He had far different plans for reconstruction than those that were executed after his demise. Much of the bitterness of reconstruction is misplaced. You can blame him for everything under the sun but the fact remains he had no part in the painful reconstruction the South suffered.
War is not pretty. Victor Davis Hanson has some interesting reading in his book “The Savior Generals”
