A model president for our moment: Trump has turned to the example of William McKinley
When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a ...
Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many
In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said ...
Slouching toward Mount McKinley: Trump and the end of the American century
Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...
Trump has touted Gilded Age tariffs, an era which saw industrial growth together with poverty
The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...
Washington Examiner4d
A model president for our moment: Trump has turned to the example of William McKinley
And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...
CounterPunch5d
Slouching Towards Mount McKinley
Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs,” President Trump ...