Abraham Lincoln didn’t free the slaves Slaves fought for their rights and freed themselves.
Stop giving that guy all the credit for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, especially since he ordered the biggest mass execution against indigenous people in history.
Trump is a convicted felon and should’ve been disqualified from the election.
Yeah, I still hold Obama accountable for the Disposition Matrix, escalating mass surveillance and not confronting the police state even after Ferguson.
But these things all empowered the right to abuse those same institutions even more. Obama presumed they wouldn’t be abused more extremely by Republicans, despite what we saw with George W. Bush bending norms.
And then, after Trump’s first term, Biden failed to dismantle any of those systems, leaving them in power for Trump 2.0