But how, exactly, is Lincoln responsible for the overreaching government of today? You all love to claim he was a big-government statist - completely ignoring that Jefferson Davis was much, much worse - but how? In what way? Just because he opposed the Southern rebellion?
As I recall, the subject of this thread was Abraham Lincoln, not Jefferson Davis. While I don’t agree he was a “terrorist”, I do think he expanded the role of the federal government beyond its intended limits, and his successors have built wildly on his foundation.