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America First's Forgotten Founder
An America-First foreign policy, properly understood, is one that eschews imperial conquests. Reed knew this intuitively but ultimately lost the debate to McKinley, Roosevelt and their ...
Are Americans living through another Gilded Age? Historians say the answer is complicated
The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...
Trump Gets McKinley’s Tariffs Wrong
The 25th president came to support them only as a means to trade reciprocity.
Trump’s tariffs model McKinley; his divided coalition models Grover Cleveland
To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
Why Trump admires President McKinley, the original ‘tariff man’
President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...
McKinley Is a Conservative Darling. Why Trump Admires the 25th President.
President Donald Trump has thrust the 25th U.S. president (1897-1901) back into the spotlight, restoring his name to the ...
Who was Ohio’s President McKinley, and why did Trump rename Denali for him?
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...