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The McKinley Years

How Trump is bringing the 19th century into the 21st

McKinley also skillfully manipulated public relations and the press, including printing nearly 200 million leaflets and posters to denounce his Presidential opponent, William Jennings Bryant, and recording the first-ever campaign film in U.S. politics. Similar to Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk, McKinley had a wealthy entrepreneur and private citizen who helped him rise to power, a man named Marcus (“Mark”) Hanna. McKinley was also a lifelong devout Christian with experience as a Congressman, Governor and President, as opposed to Trump’s career in business and entertainment whose relationships with religious leaders have been largely transactional.

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