William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.
President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.
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Donald Trump praises the 19th-century “reciprocal” tariff policy of former president William McKinley. But that strategy damaged the US economy – and the Republican Party.
President Trump likes to remember William McKinley's tariffs as a triumph. The reality is far more complicated.
Trump is right that McKinley played a critical role in American history, but not for the reasons Trump articulates.
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
The Big D — whether you want to think of it as Decline, Dysdopia, Denial, or simply Donald — is now ours for four long, long years. And that couldn’t be sadder.
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