By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026By the same token, Trump has long been publicly obsessed with the Gilded Age president William McKinley, who enacted sweeping tariffs at a time when the US economy was rapidly growing. 31/ 2625
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026This fact lodged in Trump's brain and led him to believe that tariffs are a surefire growth-hack that will let him eliminate taxes on the wealthy without shutting down the country: edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/b... 32/edition.cnn.comThe truth about William McKinley, the ‘tariff king’ and Trump’s idol | CNN BusinessWilliam McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs. 1708
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026Trump will obsess over these idées fixes* as he draws his last breath, gasping "Greenland…tariffs" as he tumbles from his golden toilet, coronary arteries bulging as he strains to pass a half-digested Big Mac, only a viscous paste of rectal mucus and Diet Coke to lubricate that unyielding bolus. 33 513425
