President Donald Trump has often been compared to Andrew Jackson, the first populist president to overturn the elite and embrace national interest at the heart of foreign policy. But one historian says Trump is closely resembling William McKinley, at least in his second term.
In his first term, Trump promoted Jackson – ironically, considered a pioneer within the Democrats, putting his portrait in an oval office (now hanging again) .
However, historian Jason Steinhauer say McKinley – The name Trump recovered to the top of the continent's tallest mountain is a true role model.
Like McKinley, Trump and his advisors seem to be looking at the world through the lens of American domination, with a particular focus on Western hegemony. They are not afraid to manipulate maps to expand American influence, such as annexing Greenland, claiming rights to the Panama Canal, and seizing Gaza. The goal is to expand the markets of American industry, whether resource exploitation and commercial enterprises (whether new frontiers such as asteroid mining, space tourism, etc.) in the Arctic, Western Hemisphere, the Middle East, and even space. The expansion of American hegemony will increase the profits of American businesses and, in theory, trickle down the prosperity of American workers, as McKinley believed.
Like McKinley, Trump sees tariffs as well as a way to change the burden of income collection, from taxing Americans through the Internal Revenue Service to taxing foreigners through external revenue services. Trump Parrots have long-standing beliefs within the corporate world about the evils of libertarians and domestic taxation. If the federal government cuts its budgets and spends trillions of dollars each year through the elimination of institutions such as USAID and education, this is theoretically a major reduction or elimination of taxes paid by American companies. And Americans. It can also fulfill a long-standing dream of eliminating the IRS, which has a very McKinley ring, among libertarians. After all, McKinley wrote more than a century ago that “direct taxation” would be something that Americans “cannot stand for so long.”
Finally, Trump is a dissatisfied person, and one of his ongoing complaints is that America is being used in other worlds. Trump points out our trade deficit, foreign aid, and spending on the United Nations and NATO as proof points. This also resembles McKinley. McKinley attempted to balance trade and use tariffs as a means to gain a favorable economic advantage for the United States, preventing the large arenas from exploiting the large US territory. McKinley was not opposed to working with rival nations on international agendas. For example, they sent American troops to China in cooperation with European powers to curb the boxer's rebellion. But the pretense was always about acting on America's greatest economic interests, and was defined very narrowly through a set of hard power standards.
One point of the controversy: Steinhauer says McKinley believed in the form of “white burdens” and white supremacy that motivated the pursuit of the American Empire. Despite his territorial ambitions, Trump has recently and is skeptical of wars abroad, and has attracted more minority votes than any other Republican.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News; Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot will be available Sundays from 7pm to 10pm (4pm to 7pm). He is the author of Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Daysyou can pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author Trump's Virtue: Lessons and Legacy of President Donald TrumpIt is now available on Audible. He is the winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpollak.
