Yes, Lincoln was a pushover who was so desperate to bring our “badly divided country” together that he expended political capital on passing a Constitutional amendment banning slavery. That was likely more controversial than impeaching a single corrupt president. https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1358884466790453248
This is obviously dramatized but it wasn’t far from the reality. "Now! Now! Now!"
Lincoln: Abolishing slavery by constitutional provisions settles the fate for all coming time. Not only of the millions now in bondage, but of unborn millions to come. Two votes stand in its way. These votes must be procured.
19th Century Version of Joe Manchin: But we must proceed in a bipartisan way! Maybe they’re still slaves but they get Tuesdays off?

Lincoln: Buzzard’s guts, man! I am the President of the United States of America! Clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
Anyway, no one who enabled an insurrection against the United States government because they refused to accept the results of a democratic election deserve to say the name Abraham Lincoln.
It was hypocritical enough that the modern GOP called itself the party of Lincoln but after January 6, it’s now obscene. “What was merely sick has now become indecent.” -- Nietzsche
The Republicans whining about how Biden isn’t “uniting” have so much gall invoking Lincoln. He was clear that slavery was over. There was no grand compromise for the 10 million Confederates who still wanted slaves!
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