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Excellent point. It is absurd to blame President Lincoln and the other Republicans of the 1860s for the Democrats' expansion of the federal government in the 1930s and 1960s.

The Dems of today couldn't have done it without the Lincoln precedent to build on. Historians are in practically unanimous agreement that Lincoln significantly consolidated power in the federal government. Some think this is good, some think this is bad, but nobody can dispute that it happened. Nor can you dispute the fact that the consolidation of federal power encourages the expansion and exercise of federal policy as we find in the welfare state of today.

"The Dems of today couldn't have done it without the Lincoln precedent to build on."

Boy howdy, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. If not for Mr. Lincoln's "precedent", there would have been no government of the USA to expand, because the USA would have ceased to exist.

Thats Mr. Lincoln's big crime, he didn't let a bunch of rabble rousing rebels destroy the greatest nation in the history of earth.