Fighting the Civil War to then not keep the Union together ... riiiiight lol. I’ll edit this with my ranking in a bit.
No, it's fight the Civil War to punish the South. There's no reason they should be allowed to remain states, but there's no reason they should be allowed to leave.
Do you have knowledge of any contemporary of the Civil War who thought in this way about the South?
The way the Radical Reconstructionists treated the South makes me think at least some of them felt that way...
So-called liberal here literally advocating what can best be described as a combination of imperialism and mass disenfranchisement lmao.
EDIT: you realize what this means for freed slaves, don't you?
