And when those governed choose armed rebellion as their means of leaving, the Constitution gives the government the authority to suppress it.
He suspended the writ of habeas corpus...
An act allowed under Article I, Section 9 when circumstances warrant it.
...imprisoning thousands of domestic political rivals, writers, newspaper owners.
Utter nonsense. Studies done on the period state that few were jailed for political purposes, and fewer still were writers or newspaper men. In his book on the subject, Mark Neeley identify most of the jailed as draft dodgers, suspected deserters, defrauders of the government, swindlers of recruits, ex-Confederate soldiers, and smugglers.
He assumed executive control over communications, federalized, and censored the telegraph networks.
You badly overstate the government role in communications, and I would point out that censoring communications during wartime was not unique to the rebellion but has occured in every war we've been in as a necessary security procedure.
He exiled a member of Congress who dared oppose his unconstitutional federal income tax and protectionist tariffs.
Completely false. Clement Vallandigham was not a member of Congress, he'd been defeated in the previous election. Vallandigham was jailed on the orders of Ambrose Burnside, not Lincoln, for statements advocating an end to the war and success for the Southern rebellion, not against the income tax or tariffs. Far from jailing him, Lincoln ordered him freed and sent to confederate territory where he was immediately escorted to the coast and put on the first blockade runner heading out of town.
He rigged elections, sometimes at the point of the gun.
Laughable.
He confiscated private firearms.
Details please.
He confiscated private property.
The Confiscation Acts gave the government the right to seize private propert without compensation if that property was being used to support the rebellion. Nothing illegal in that.
Complete and utter nonsens.
As for fascism... OK I should have just called the bastard a damned dictator.
Since accuracy is of not importance to you then you might as well.
Even pro-Lincoln biographers concede that he was a dictator.
For example?