> over the past few months, and especially in his second inaugural address, trump has gone all 19th century on us. he seems to find in this period everything he likes: tariffs, manifest destiny, seizing land from weaker nations, mercantilism, railroads, manufacturing and populism. many presidents mention george washington or abraham lincoln in their inaugurals. who was the immortal trump cited? william mckinley. > in his book the american mind, the historian henry steele commager wrote of our 19th-century forebears: whatever promised to increase wealth was automatically regarded as good, and the american was tolerant, therefore, of speculation, advertising, deforestation and the exploitation of natural resources. so trumpian.
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