And what do you think qualifies someone as being a dictator? Because you have said that arresting people without charge, sending the army marching into statehouses, shutting down hostile press and exiling political opponents does not. So, what is the cutoff in your mind?
And what do you think qualifies someone as being a dictator? Because you have said that arresting people without charge, sending the army marching into statehouses, shutting down hostile press and exiling political opponents does not. So, what is the cutoff in your mind?
Considering that it happened in times of war, yeah, it does not. The Southern states were criminalizing criticism of slavery even in peacetime.
What qualifies someone as a dictator?
LINCOLN WAS JUSTIFIED!
"Do these things qualify someone as a dictator?"
"Not in times of war."