President Donald Trump has often been compared to Andrew Jackson, the first populist president who upended the elites and placed national interest at the center of foreign policy. But one historian says that Trump, at least in his second term, bears a closer resemblance to William McKinley.
In his first term, Trump elevated Jackson — ironically, considered a pioneer within the Democratic Party, placing his portrait in the Oval Office (where it now hangs again).
But historian Jason Steinhauer says McKinley — whose name Trump restored atop the continent’s highest mountain — is the true role model:
Like McKinley, Trump and his advisors seem to view the world through the lens of American dominance, with a particular focus on hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. They
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