We can argue over whether or not Lincoln was justified, but I think he was pretty clearly a dictator.
Almost all Lincoln love is based on hindsight. If he had failed then history would have seen many of these flaws as his primary traits. But because he won, the South was mega evil, all actions against them justified, and he is ultra saint because slavery and shit.
And truly, slavery could have and likely would have ended entirely without his actions within time as the entire global market was shifting against it. But instead we now still have a broken South dragging the country down and a race problem that has no end, entirely as a result of his methodology.
It's funny because the same people that whine about how other countries are only bad off because the US government attacked them have zero problem mocking the south even though we are their fellow countrymen
Almost all Lincoln love is based on hindsight. If he had failed then history would have seen many of these flaws as his primary traits. But because he won, the South was mega evil, all actions against them justified, and he is ultra saint because slavery and shit.
And truly, slavery could have and likely would have ended entirely without his actions within time as the entire global market was shifting against it. But instead we now still have a broken South dragging the country down and a race problem that has no end, entirely as a result of his methodology.
It's funny because the same people that whine about how other countries are only bad off because the US government attacked them have zero problem mocking the south even though we are their fellow countrymen