1 locking up people who disagreed with him up without warrant/indictment, or even a SHAM trial,
2. confining both civilians (who had done NOTHING UNlawful) and prisoners of war in CONCENTRATION CAMPS to be starved/assaulted/raped/denied food,clothing,medical care/murdered in cold blood,
3. enforcing the laws that agreed with and IGNORING the ones that would have restrained his excesses &
4. surrounding himself with a bunch of "yes men", who NEVER tried to "rein him in" regardless of how dishonest, immoral, hate-FILLED and/or UNwise his inclinations were,
YEP, "DIShonest abe" might well have taken the WHOLE of the USA into "dictatorship".
free dixie,sw
Sorry but every single action you mentioned was done by Jefferson Davis.