"Mainstream political coverage has largely overlooked the deep affinities between the McKinley and Trump models of governance, thanks in no small part to the American press's inattention to the basics of political economy, not to mention its endemic historical illiteracy. More than that, though, Trump's cultish regard for McKinley gives the lie to the corporate media's central narrative about Trump and the MAGA movement—that it's a populist insurgency aimed at toppling sinister networks of elite influence."
Chris Lehman at The Nation compares Donald Trump to William McKinley.
And Michael Tomasky at The New Republic calls Trump an 1870s Redemptionist.
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