Yes to the Democrats being the same billionaire party its always been, but Lincon's third party - they decided to call it "Republicans" - was voted in because it was headed by a self made politician born in a rural wood cabin specifically because the actual voters aren't billionaires and they weren't represented by the billionaire Democrats or the fake other party pretending to oppose them. It really wasn't different from today.

They made third parties impossible because he actually ran under 2 different third parties - his new Republican party was already infiltrated in his first term and "RINOs" became the bribes they still are today. This is why to this very day third parties are hated by both parties.

Lincoln was the last time money played basically no part of the winning party, and in fact billionaires lost so much even after they managed to keep slavery legal all teh way to today, that they made sure no grassroots popularity party representing regular old everyone could change their plans again..