Lincolns big campaign promise and what he really wanted was Henry Clay’s “American system” on steroids. He wanted high tariffs and lots of government largesse which would inevitably be lavished on Northern business interests and Northern infrastructure as it had always been. Big government Tax and Spend Liberal, with a huge helping of Crony-Capitalism, just as i've been saying.
The era of huge Federal power and super corruption began with Lincoln.
FLT-bird:
"Lincolns big campaign promise and what he really wanted was Henry Clay’s “American system” on steroids.
He wanted high tariffs and lots of government largesse which would inevitably be lavished on Northern business interests and Northern infrastructure as it had always been." Total nonsense, since the Republican 1860 platform called for less government largess:
Item #6: "6. That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans; while the recent startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal metropolis, show that an entire change of administration is imperatively demanded."
To put it in our terms, Republicans in 1860, just as in 2016 promised to
drain the Democrat DC swamp. That's what infuriated
Democrats then, just as it does today -- political power is their drug, without it they suffer severe withdrawal.
DiogenesLamp: "Big government Tax and Spend Liberal, with a huge helping of Crony-Capitalism, just as i've been saying."
No, the Democrat DC swamp was notably smaller in those days, but no less corrupt.
DiogenesLamp: "The era of huge Federal power and super corruption began with Lincoln."
Total lie, the "progressive era" began with Progressive Democrats like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.