Apples and Oranges: Why Comparing McKinley’s Tariffs to Trump’s Strategy Misses the Mark
Know Your History to Invest Wisely in the Future
Mainstream media pundits, partisan politicians, and celebrity economists love to dunk on Trump’s tariff strategy by claiming it’s just a recycled idea from the McKinley era—a doomed attempt at protectionism that history has already proven ineffective. But this take is not only simplistic—it’s dangerously out of context.
It ignores the radically different…
