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A model president for our moment: Trump has turned to the example of William McKinley - Washington Examiner

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William McKinley hailed as a model for today ’s U.S. leadership, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: President Trump seems bent on taking America back to pre-World War I era of peace, prosperity, national pride, American ascendancy.

But McKinley was not that kind of visionary, Zelizer says.

He says McKinley distinguished himself as a managerial leader, perceptive in his assessment of events.

President McKinley kept Puerto Rico , Guam , and the Philippines , while Cuba was placed on a track to independence.

He took a similar approach in dealing with Spain during its brutal effort to suppress an insurrection in Cuba against Spanish imperial rule.

But the 19th-century era of colonial imperialism was nearing its end, and McKinley helped signal its demise with his “ Open Door ” policy in China .

Robert Merry : In looking at Trump through the prism of McKinley 's persona and legacy, we see vast differences.

McKinley governed when America stood at the threshold of great-power status, he says.

Merry: Trump is a man whose bombast, sweeping actions, and slashing pronouncements accentuate his expansive instinctual drive.

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