Trump’s new obsession with William McKinley undermines his ‘populist’ reputation
Tiberiu Sabo
McKinley was the literal enemy of the original populists. Donald Trump ’s inauguration speech was full of red meat for his supporters. There were vague but ominous references to a “horrible betrayal” of America in the recent past. He claimed that America’s education system teaches young people to “hate our country.” He lumped together the assassination attempt he survived in July with his years of legal problems, portraying all of it as the work of “[t]hose who wish to stop our cause.” And he
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