The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...
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.
Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...
In successive eras of cartoons and caricature, it has been the "little guy" against the "fat cats ... in common with the record of President William McKinley, the Ohio Republican who defeated ...