If we consider Buchanan's role in Dred Scott then we must think that Democrat Buchanan was similar to other Democrats (BHO comes to mind) whose goal was to fundamentally transform America into their own visions of what we should be.
As Lincoln said in 1858, the nation could not permanently endure half-slave and half-free, must become all one or all the other.
Dred Scott & Buchanan's purpose was to make us all-slave states.
In that, like BHO, their failure was the country's success.
Of course, it took a Lincoln to overturn what Buchanan put in place.
We're hoping it will not require another Lincoln to make right what BHO ruined.
Two Democrat radical transformers:
