[jeffersondem]

“Crazy Roger Taney:”

It is truly surprising how Lincoln, elevated to the presidency with only 39 percent of the popular vote, was able to successfully levy war against the states. As you read history, many knowledgeable and influential people doubted, or outright opposed, his disastrous policies.

Then again, Kamala Harris had only three-to-four percent support for her ruinous ambitions and she now serves as president of the United States; and those writing the early drafts of history are saying she is one of the best ever.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "It is truly surprising how Lincoln, elevated to the presidency with only 39 percent of the popular vote, was able to successfully levy war against the states."

Against those states in rebellion, having declared war on the United States.
Not so surprising when you consider that Confederate leaders themselves well understood what was happening, for example, CSA Secretary of State Toombs warned Jefferson Davis before Fort Sumter:

"Mr. President, at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North.
You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.
It is unnecessary; it puts us in the wrong; it is fatal."[19]

Toombs was exactly right -- attacking Fort Sumter drove the South's natural Northern Democrat allies into alliance with those minority Lincoln Republicans, an alliance which lasted, more or less, until the war's end.

Nothing surprising about that.