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I'd say it was moreso the concessions of things like letting racist piles of shit back into congress almost as soon as the war was over. If they had been treated like the untrustworthy shitstains that they clearly are, maybe they'd have eventually learned to appreciate why bigotry is bad. They should've had to earn equal rights. By willingly extending those rights to minorities before they themselves gained equal political rights.
Instead, we got decades and decades of Jim Crow/etc...
The confederates should have lost everything. We probably would have had to occupy the south for decades and have routine public executions of klansmen, and there wasn't an appetite for that for various reasons.
Very good points. The perpetual cowardice of americans will never cease to amaze me. It is not a moral high ground to fail to put down a beast of the sort that is institutionalized racism and bigotry.
If we'd even just had 4 years of Hannibal Hamlin + 8 years of Grant, I feel like we'd be in a less fucked position.