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He's basically 1860s Hillary Clinton. A moderate that thwarted a real shakeup.
Of course, the difference is that he won an election
I don't think that Lincoln was that inflexible. Clinton would not have even tried trial runs of compensated emancipation. She would have probably been a doughface that would have been even more prideful and arrogant than James Buchanan.