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What if the Radical Republicans were powerful enough that Lincoln felt the need to appease them by making one his VP. This would mean that they also had even more power in Congress, meaning that we could get a Radical Reconstruction. Maybe its my unreconstructed Jacobinism but this appeals to me in a "dracarys" sort of way.