But McKinley made the money and he was truly the tariff king. Professor Rauchway sees a historical downside to this budding bromance. The tariff law of 1890, called the “McKinley tariff ...

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and he regularly praises a man he calls “the tariff king,” 25th President William McKinley. “[McKinley’s] language was really beautiful,” Trump said on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

“Our country was the richest, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s,” Trump said. He called McKinley “the Tariff King” who “spoke beautifully of tariffs,” and summarized his policy. “We will not allow ...

much as McKinley’s tariffs did not. The core strengths of the U.S. remained intact, both during the tariff period and when tariffs were lowered. This raises a broader question about how much any ...

With Harrison’s blessing, McKinley set about crafting the most comprehensive tariff bill the country had ever seen up to that time, encompassing some four thousand separate items. So earnest was ...

“He thinks that the McKinley tariff led to a boom, but the cautionary tale is that it was followed by the financial panic of ...