Oh I don’t. I blame him for what he did. You were listing “progressive” presidents. Lincoln was the first.
Please give examples of how Lincoln was a Progressive President.
He did unfortunately follow through with the Progressive idea of federal railroads, but he was not the first to do so. Also, he used the railways for the protection –which is in the purview of any US President - of the attacks against the Federal Government - to protect the Constitution which the Democrat Slave states tried to destroy. And what else do you think was progressive about him?