Hindsight is always 20/20 and your points will be debated until time ends.  With that being said, all 45 presidents of the United States were/are flawed men.  The framers of our constitutional republic understood that.  They also understood, better than most, "natural law".  They attempted to create a supportive national government without overly usurping the power of WE THE PEOPLE.  The fact that that same constitution was referenced numerous times during the impeachment scam, 230 years after ratification, illustrates how largely successful our founding fathers were in their attempt.  The problem, illustrated by your Lincoln example, was WE THE PEOPLE became so busy in pursuing our happiness, we forsook our civic obligation to stay informed/engaged in our own governance.  One could argue that the "elites" (Rothschilds and their ilk) engineered the information flow to deceive, obfuscate, put WE THE PEOPLE to sleep.  That wasn't accounted for in our supreme law of the land, the US Constitution.  (It was debated exhaustively in the letters between Jefferson and Adams.)  In Lincoln's case, based on his speeches, one could argue that his short term "lawless thug dictator" fix was the only way for the long term survival of our founding fathers' work.  He was arguably executed by the Rothschild criminal cabal because he interfered with their plans to enslave the newly restored Union with debt.  After all, it took 6 years after his death for the Act of 1871 to strip WE THE PEOPLE of our power.  Plenty of people in power could have stopped that.  WE THE PEOPLE, recovering from a devastating Civil War, which killed 2% of our population, didn't stop it, either.  Hindsight.  Thank God we live today where the information is available for any engaged citizen to become informed.  How many times over the last 3 years (or more) have you yelled "BULLSHIT"?  We all have.  That's the beauty of the TRUTH movement.  We still may disagree on things based on our unique experiences, but we agree on so much that the information barriers creating the divides are breaking down.  The last formidable barrier being the lying, seditious, mainstream media.  Lincoln was correct in his observation, in a different context, that "a house divided against itself cannot stand."  TRUTH is unifying WE THE PEOPLE.  That's how power is returning to us.  WWG1WGA!  TRUMP 2020 (538 - 0).