McKinley, Garfield point the way for the 47th president. President Trump foresees “a period of transition” before his tariffs ...

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 ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

He was the congressman representing Ohio at the time, and he successfully pushed for legislation that became the McKinley Tariff of 1890. That put a tariff of more than 70% on imported tinplate. IRWIN ...

And how big a factor was the tariff issue when it came to McKinley losing so bad? It was a huge factor because in the United States, farmers were struggling and a lot of people were seeing higher ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff plan went into effect. It adds a 25% tariff on all products imported from both Mexico and ...

ushered through a piece of legislation that became known as the McKinley tariff. It was passed in 1890. And it had revenue effects. It was designed to protect domestic industry from foreign ...

(Democrats lowered the McKinley Tariff the following year.) It was also electorally disastrous for his Republican Party, which got beaten quite badly by Democrats in both 1890 and 1892, before ...

Of course, Trump’s trade policy is so muddled that this observation isn’t very compelling. Economists on the left and right ...