Actually I think it will turn out that the first President from Illinois kept the country together. The second one will be the one that destroys it.
He “kept the country together” by using FORCE against his own citizens.
We were once a VOLUNTARY union of states.
Lincoln ended that annoying little constitutional impediment to absolute federal tyranny.
He is “the new Lincoln”, only much worse.
The seeds planted in 1865 are ready for harvest.
All the states who’ve reaffirmed their “sovereignty” will be eaten first, just for their unmitigated gall of having done so.