President Trump has discovered a new political hero to idolize: President William McKinley, an imperialist and protectionist.

Yet, Trump’s boasts reveal a shallow understanding of the political fight over the McKinley tariffs. Instead of motivating an ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. | Opinion ...

President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday to revert the name of the nation’s tallest mountain back to Mt. McKinley, ...

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. “'We will not allow ...

Trump also pointed to 19th-century tariff increases championed by former President William McKinley as evidence that his plan could benefit the economy. But data shows the federal government had ...

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Yet, Trump’s boasts reveal a shallow understanding of the political fight over the McKinley tariffs. Instead of motivating an era of protectionist patriotism, the tariff wars of the 1890s pitted the ...

McKinley was known during his time in Congress for the eponymous McKinley tariff that was passed in 1890. It raised tariffs by as much as 50% on various products. The Ohioan later ran for ...