I suspect Joe Biden knows how Abe Lincoln felt in 1860? [View all]

[kentuck]

A country that seemed divided beyond repair.

Hatred and racism deep within the fabric of the nation.

So set in their beliefs that they are ready to tear down the Union rather than compromise.

The Democrats, mostly in the South, hated Abe Lincoln. They were inspired by Robert E. Lee and a southern populism. They were ready to fight and die for what they believed in. They were led by Jefferson Davis and other southern demagogues. They could not see the tragedy that lay in front of them.

Now, Joe Biden faces a similar division in the country. He is not their President. That mantle belongs to another demagogue.

Abe Lincoln warned that "a house divided against itself cannot stand". Joe Biden had always been a Senator that sought compromise. Now he finds himself in a country arguably more divided than anytime since the beginning of the Civil War?

I think there probably are parallels to what Lincoln was thinking in 1860?