Memento Mori wrote:Gerald Ford was mainly ineffectual, the Nixon pardon destroyed all his authority. What's the argument against Lincoln?
I was only thinking of post war Presidents so Lincoln didn't come into my thinking. The Republicans used to be the good guys (well as good as the 19th century allowed) so it's only since the parties switched that we can say the GOP are the evil ones.
Lincoln was no saint. Abolishing slavery and defeating the CSA goes a long bloody way though!