The Constitution suffered because of Lincoln? Huh, the things you learn on Free Republic. /s
The Constitution suffered because of Lincoln? Huh, the things you learn on Free Republic. /s
Well, if you spent less time trolling for personal martyrdom points, you might have read some posts about it.
Lincoln had some great qualities. But he had many many flaws and would not fit well into today's GOP. He was a Clay Whig if you know what that is. Early in his career, he made antiwar speeches as libelous to the troops and President Polk as anything the DUmmy moonbats post against our troops and president today. As president, he blatantly violated free speech, imprisoned and deported political opponents, and then sweetly held elections (hailed in most history texts as a sign of the vibrancy and durable nature of American democracy, a fun exercise when you've eliminated your opposition). That's even before we get started on the slash-and-burn tactics he ended up using against the South, his freeing of only those slaves in Confederate territory (but not those under his own jurisdiction) and his preoccupation with the idea of deporting all former slaves from the United States to their own colony, somewhere far far away.
Naturally, the public schools cannot teach all of this in any politically correct curricula and that is why so many people, like yourself apparently, are so ignorant about it.
America would never tolerate an autocrat like Lincoln (or FDR) other than in time of civil war or global war (like WW II). Those two are not in the mainstream of American presidents and their biographers make far more of them than they should while ignoring their many terrible and despicable personal qualities and foibles.