It’s amazing how conservatives continue to fail history when discussing the United States Civil War especially when they’re so enthusiastic to claim Abraham Lincoln as one of their own. In this clip from CNN of a New Hampshire town hall, former Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley–remember she once led the state where the first shots were fired in the Civil War–claimed the cause of the Civil War was “how government was gonna run, the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.” You know, like determine where they lived, or if they got an education, or if their children were ripped from their arms to be sold for labor. Or as Nikki Haley says, what the slaveholders who owned them wanted the freedom to have them do.