If America goes authoritarian, these phony scolds are as responsible as Trump’s supporters. Should Lincoln have sought compromise with slaveholders? Should FDR & Churchill have tried to see things from Hitler’s POV? Those Axios guys have always been scummy. @MorningJoe crap.

— Joe Fisch (@joefischCA) October 8, 2018

A good historical analogue is that Lincoln did try to compromise with slaveholders. Lincoln’s platform really amounted to no additional slave states. The decade prior to the civil war largely saw the South seeing itself as ideologically isolated and economically … https://t.co/nbtKignkUx

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 8, 2018

3/ (in many ways an acccurate perception) it would only accept the Union if it could dominate it. Once Lincoln’s election signified they could no longer dominate the Union, they immediately seceded.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 8, 2018

That sounds frighteningly familiar. The Right fears losing, not just power, but dominance, and they speak of violence if demographic inevitability causes them to lost control.