@PodunkPotato @beardalaxy
Zelenskyy is brought down by a couple of very key factors: 1. His own people hates him, only tolerating his rule and behavior because Putin, Lukashenko, and the current war are worse, in their eyes. 2. The Western Internet, for now, prevents total control over information. The Ukraine does not have the infrastructure or laws like Russia and China have to try and limit the Internet's impact on the free flow of information.

Those two were completely absent in the mid 1800's. Majority of Yankees had a generally favorable of Lincoln, especially after the assassination, and the war, despite the sizable Northern dissident groups that opposed both. Lincoln also infamously went after journal presses that refused to tote the party line, especially early on in Maryland to prevent that state from seceding. You could not easily prove or disprove claims being written in yellow presses and abolitionist propaganda mills, due to logistics of researching those facts. Most people were too busy surviving or barely subsisting to care enough. That's why many myths still persist about the war, the North, and the South, like Lee torturing some of his slaves, which was slander by an abolitionist paper claiming to have one of his ex-slaves as a witness.