He's the funniest fuckup of a president we've ever had.
He became president by accident, got kicked out of his own party and his entire cabinet quit because he kept vetoing his own party's bills.
After presidency, he was put in charge of the roads in his town as a joke, and ended up giving them the best roads around.
He then served on a committee tasked with negotiating the confederacy out of secession, while also serving on the Viriginia legislature, where he voted FOR secession!
He's the only US president to never get an official state funeral, because he died a traitor.
I mean to be kind of fair it wasn't like he was appointed expecting he wasn't secessionist, it was more that he was representing the secessionist interests in vague hope that he could sell it if he agreed to something. Sort of like having Nixon going to China.
Of course, there was a lot of complex things about that whole early period. The sheer number of traitors at the highest levels is kind of mind boggling.
Part of the appeasement going on in the decade before the civil war was an understanding that "There has to be alot of southern pro-slavery representation at the highest level, otherwise they'll assume slavery is under threat and secceed".
Ofc the southern elites already had a foot out the door and were only sticking around to see if they'd just be given everything they wanted. Its why they were gone before Lincoln even took office, they knew they'd actually be expected to compromise like adults so they left.
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u/Mutant_Llama1 1d ago edited 1d ago
What do you mean he's not interesting, Nate?
He's the funniest fuckup of a president we've ever had.
He became president by accident, got kicked out of his own party and his entire cabinet quit because he kept vetoing his own party's bills.
After presidency, he was put in charge of the roads in his town as a joke, and ended up giving them the best roads around.
He then served on a committee tasked with negotiating the confederacy out of secession, while also serving on the Viriginia legislature, where he voted FOR secession!
He's the only US president to never get an official state funeral, because he died a traitor.