@sethcotlar I largely agree, but just want to underscore that Lincoln's Republican party was *very* different than the modern one, so calling him 'the first Republican president' is a bit misleading. The conservative, racist, white voters of the south were still voting Democrat even a hundred years after that cartoon came out. It's a great illustration of how we're still stuck decrying the same old arguments, but we shouldn't try to make direct party comparisons.