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In 2024, Americans Will Be Voting Like It’s 1892
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In 2024, Americans Will Be Voting Like It’s 1892
BY: CHARLIE KIRK
APRIL 24, 2024
Both candidates have a record, and we know which president saw success and which one has only produced one crisis after another.
As the world’s oldest continually functioning constitutional republic, few things are unprecedented in American politics. Even the pending rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, while a first within recent memory, has happened several times in our country’s long history.
There have been six presidential election rematches in American history, going all the way back to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson’s showdown in 1800. In four of those rematches, the loser of the first tilt won.
But one election in particular stands out as a model for Trump vs. Biden round two: the 1892 election between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. To this day, it is the only rematch election between two men who had both served a term as president.
Eight years before, in 1884, Grover Cleveland became an unlikely presidential election winner. While Cleveland was a Democrat, he resembled President Trump in many ways. In those days, the Republican Party was the party of America’s establishment, while Democrats were the insurgent outsiders, still recovering from the aftermath of the Civil War. Like Trump, Cleveland was a surprise national political figure. In the fall of 1881, Cleveland was simply a prominent lawyer in Buffalo, New York. But after whirlwind stints as mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York, just three years later, Cleveland was president-elect.
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https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/24/in-2024-americans-will-be-voting-like-its-1892/
LMAO:
From the article….
While Cleveland was a Democrat, he resembled President Trump in many ways
Umm……no
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#:~:text=His%20crusade%20for%20political%20reform,the%20principles%20of%20classical%20liberalism.
While governor, he closely cooperated with state assembly minority leader Theodore Roosevelt to pass reform measures, winning national attention.[1] He led the Bourbon Democrats, a pro-business movement opposed to high tariffs, free silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the time.[2] Cleveland also won praise for honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism.[3]
Donald Trump is a mixture of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders
LMAO:
From the article...
Like in 2024, inflation was one of the key issues in 1892, as Harrison supported an inflationary monetary policy
Both candidates this year support an inflationary monetary policy
libertybele:
--- Quote from: LMAO on April 24, 2024, 01:45:53 pm ---From the article….
While Cleveland was a Democrat, he resembled President Trump in many ways
Umm……no
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#:~:text=His%20crusade%20for%20political%20reform,the%20principles%20of%20classical%20liberalism.
While governor, he closely cooperated with state assembly minority leader Theodore Roosevelt to pass reform measures, winning national attention.[1] He led the Bourbon Democrats, a pro-business movement opposed to high tariffs, free silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the time.[2] Cleveland also won praise for honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism.[3]
Donald Trump is a mixture of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders
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???? What Trump's policies are you comparing to LBJ's Great Society, Obama's transformation of America or Bernie's socialistic agendas???
Trump ran up the deficit though I give him some leeway because he was told he had a pandemic on his hands and was in an unprecedented situation, but I give him much more credit than LBJ, Obama or Bernie. I can't comment on Hoover as I didn't live during his time.
libertybele:
--- Quote from: LMAO on April 24, 2024, 09:49:05 pm ---From the article...
Like in 2024, inflation was one of the key issues in 1892, as Harrison supported an inflationary monetary policy
Both candidates this year support an inflationary monetary policy
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Under Trump my wallet certainly didn't experience the inflationary monetary policies that I am now experiencing under Biden and I am not aware as to whether or not Trump support this continued inflation; IIRC, quite the opposite. He knows that the economy is a mess.
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