Another Michael Lind extravaganza, this time in defense of US president William McKinley. Contains a lot of interesting side points I haven´t seen before, such as attempts by liberal US historians to paint Andrew Jackson (!) as a "progressive", or claims from the same quarters that Woodrow Wilson was very different from McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt.
Eh, come again? I noticed years ago that Americans have a weird view of their own history, but clearly I didn´t know half of it!
Lind also does a good job debunking the libertarian-conservative-isolationist idea that America was once a glorious non-interventionist republic...from sea to shining sea, on land grabbed from the Indians, with excellent ports and territorial designs of a distinctly geo-political nature on Mexico, Alaska and the Caribbean.
Quite long article (the link goes to its first page) but well worth reading!
Bringing back McKinley
When we say Katherine Tingley, we mean McKinley. And when we say McKinley, we mean Katherine Tingley. Vivat!
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