Georgiann Baldino<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> "devoted two full paragraphs to talking about his admiration for the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley. In the end, McKinley won handily, and the People’s Party [populists] collapsed. McKinley presided over years of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/plutocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocrat</span></a>-friendly policies at home and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warmongering</span></a> abroad until he was assassinated by an anarchist factory worker in 1901." </p><p>MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-inauguration-william-mckinley-populist-rcna188455" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio</span><span class="invisible">n/trump-inauguration-william-mckinley-populist-rcna188455</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HistoryMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryMatters</span></a></p>