I was called out (on Reddit) for pointing out how insanely dangerous this comment was in 2018.

Trump also praised China’s President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn’t mind making such a maneuver himself. “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”

(https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html)

Reconstruction failed because Lincoln made the mistake of choosing Andrew Johnson to ‘reach across the aisle’ and then was assassinated. And his racist piece of shit replacement did everything he could to obstruct Lincoln’s plans.