I pointed out that to a man who would lock up another man and accuse him of "treason" for writing a song, winning an election is not all that difficult.
When you are throwing people in jail for virtually nothing, people become afraid of you.
I don't know. I'd love to take the person who wrote "Baby Shark" and lock them up and throw away the key.
:)
Of course you don't. Interest in Davis would be...inconvenient.
Inconvenient to the extent that I don't see him as significant. He never had control of whether or not there would be a war. He never had control of whether or not the war would continue. He was a small fish in the larger events.
Maybe I should read more about him, because I don't know a great deal about anything of significance he did. He just isn't the focus of the Civil War. He merely stood in the shadow of Lincoln.
Never had control!?! He ordered the firing of the first shot! No wonder your view of the civil war is so screwed up! Lincoln or Buchanan had ample provocation to fire the first shot but Buchanan was too spineless and Lincoln was hoping the the rebellion would be stopped by cooler heads.
As Lincoln said;
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Heck, Davis was warned by his his Secretary of State that firing on Fort Sumter was a bad idea.
“Mr. President, at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen.” [Robert Toombs to Jefferson Davis, quoted in W. A. Swanberg, _First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter,_ p. 286