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The video went off track early when the speaker put violation of Washington's warning against foreign entanglements upon Lincoln when it was the Confederates who were begging for foreign intervention against their fellow Americans.

The condemnation of railroad subsidies would have been more complete had the speaker admitted that many of the Confederate champions of limited government begged earlier for government aid for their hoped-for Southern railroad route.

It was interesting to see GW Bush and the Iraq war being linked to a Lincoln-inspired American empire of a powerful imperial government making war to further politically potent business interests when some would say the southern-promoted Mexican War was the true genesis of this. And the video totally misses the cornerstone of the Confederacy being a regime that supported the narrow interest of those who got rich by owning human beings and the aggressive spread of this institution.

And with all anti-Lincoln attacks they assume the Confederacy to be a united realm of devotees of liberty. That's like saying 1930s Germany would have been a great place for Jews had Hitler been a nice guy.

But I salute the producer for his talent in making a nice video presentation of a very incomplete and shaky argument. DiLorenzo and Lew Rockwell would be proud.