Posted on 11/17/2024 1:38:05 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The 1892 presidential election was a rematch, with Harrison and Cleveland serving once again as their party nominees.
Mrs. Cleveland had told the White House staff upon departing in 1889 to take care of the furniture because she and her husband would be back in four years...
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Concluding line: “Cleveland was never especially beloved, but he was respected,” Senik says, “and that was precisely because the public knew that he’d do what he thought was right rather than what he thought was politically expedient.”
He won the pie eating contest...
A democrat who was a fiscal conservative.
The Cleveland and Trump phenomena were salmost mirror images in how the elections happened. Harrison’s Electoral win and popular vote loss- Ceveland’s sex charges, then Harrisons political favors charges and Cleveland’s second win.
Back then Republicans were tariffites and Democrats at least talked about free markets. Free markets were more relevant then before the age of global corporations and after the buildup of American industrial strength in part due to the tariffs of the previous 90 years.
Thank you for sharing that.
I liked that he was into shrinking government. :)
And it is amazing that, with all seats of power against him (media, government, most big donors, etc.), Trump won three consecutive presidential elections (but was cheated out of one).
God wanted it to happened that way.
It has taken four years for me to understand that.
I do now.
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