The only consolation I have is that these Slotkin types way overestimate their own intelligence because they built their careers on overthrowing countries with an average IQ of 70

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, confronted an armed rebellion after Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy in 1860–1861. His stated goal was to preserve the Union and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States, which many historians describe as “saving” the American republic. Abraham Lincoln invoked authority under the Insurrection Act on April 15, 1861, in response to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter and the secession of Southern states. His proclamation: A) Called for 75,000 state militiamen to suppress the rebellion and enforce federal law. B) Ordered those participating in the rebellion to disperse and return home within 20 days. C) Summoned Congress to an extraordinary session on July 4, 1861. He expanded the Army and Navy, ordered a naval blockade of Southern ports, and directed major campaigns aimed at defeating Confederate armies rather than merely holding territory. Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in certain areas, authorized military arrests, and allowed military tribunals for civilians in zones of rebellion, arguing these steps were necessary to preserve the government. In his special message to Congress on July 4, 1861, he defended these emergency “war powers” as required to ensure that the government and Constitution did not “perish,” a rationale often summarized as using the war power to save the republic. The Union’s military victory under Lincoln’s leadership ended the Confederacy, preserved the territorial and constitutional continuity of the United States, and led to the abolition of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. Because the United States survived its greatest internal crisis with republican institutions ultimately intact, many scholars credit Lincoln’s wartime use of the military with having “saved the Union” and, by extension, the American republic.