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Why Donald Trump talks so much about William McKinley
Donald Trump has spent considerable time on the campaign trail this year invoking a president who has been dead for more than 123 years: William McKinley. The reason: McKinley and Trump’s shared affinity for tariffs. McKinley, who served as president from 1896 to 1901, was an ultra-protectionist politician who arrived at the White House having…