Can you explain what it was that made Lincoln a fascist dictator? Thanks.
Invading states. Suspending habeas corpus. Jailing state legislators. Jailing dissenters. Shuting down newspapers.
Even Lincoln's biggest fans admit he used unprecedented powers never before used as President. They usually follow it up with the lame excuse: "oh boo hoo, he had it real hard."
Lincoln destroyed the US Constitution and what is arguably its most defining, important, and revolutionary principle, that just a government only derives just powers via the consent of the governed. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus, imprisoning thousands of domestic political rivals, writers, newspaper owners. He assumed executive control over communications, federalized, and censored the telegraph networks. He exiled a member of Congress who dared oppose his unconstitutional federal income tax and protectionist tariffs. He rigged elections, sometimes at the point of the gun. He confiscated private firearms. He confiscated private property. He nationalized the banking system. He made slaves of Northerners by institutionalizing conscription. His government ran death camps. He is also the center of a creepy personality cult. As for fascism... OK I should have just called the bastard a damned dictator. An authoritarian scum that destroyed the republic and ushered in the imperial presidency and an unquestioned scope of central power. Even pro-Lincoln biographers concede that he was a dictator.