I can't say this was bad necessarily, because the nation Lincoln created is stronger geopolitically than the Union he inherited, but the two are nothing alike.
Lincoln literally destroyed the nation created by the Founding Fathers and then turned the ruins into a federal state with an uncompromising all-powerful central government.
The very existence of the DS is possible only because of this.
On the other hand, you don't defeat the likes of the Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union without a strong and authoritarian federal center
Good or bad just isn't nuanced enough to describe America's first dictator
Because Lincoln was the original fedboy.
I can't say this was bad necessarily, because the nation Lincoln created is stronger geopolitically than the Union he inherited, but the two are nothing alike.
Lincoln literally destroyed the nation created by the Founding Fathers and then turned the ruins into a federal state with an uncompromising all-powerful central government.
The very existence of the DS is possible only because of this.
On the other hand, you don't defeat the likes of the Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union without a strong and authoritarian federal center
Good or bad just isn't nuanced enough to describe America's first dictator