Was he for low taxes and smaller government?

>>2017344
No. He was totally the big government type.

>>2017344
Big government, high tariffs that screwed over the South, unconstitutionally large role of the president

wouldn't know his true policy since big ass civil war

but he did make the gov't bigger to solve said war

>>2017778
>>2017443
>>2017349
sources plz
in general what was the founding Republicans' vision for government?

>>2018256
Opposition to Wilson. First pro-free market president was Warren G. Harding.

The Civil War overshadows everything so it's hard to say what his presidency would have looked like without it. His "big government" actions were entirely in response to it. Also, keep in mind that the president was much less powerful then, in terms of setting agenda. Congress made laws, and the president enforced them.

>>2017344

Put it this way, Karl Marx wrote a letter to him saying that he had his full-fledged support.

>>2018623

Yeah, because he was in the process of accelerating the destruction of a slave-owning aristocracy that had dominated the republic since the beginning. It's always adorable when laissez-faire weenies try to portray themselves as proponents of a small, or even democratic state.