Do you remember that mini-series “Amerika” from the 1980s, about a fictional Soviet occupation of the US?
They would have a parade with banners with pictures of Lenin and Lincoln.
“They would have a parade with banners with pictures of Lenin and Lincoln.”
Not an uncommon pairing on the Left.
There’s some historians on the Right who would agree, seeing Lincoln’s willingness to send an army against fellow Americans as something worthy of Lenin.
In Lincoln’s view everyone in the South remained a U.S. citizen. They couldn’t voluntarily leave the Union and form a new government, so the objects of his war were fellow citizens of the USA. The irony of this echoing George III’s argument against “treasonous rebels” didn’t slow him down any.