It’s not just tariffs and wealth concentrated in the hands of a few tycoons. Today, our political divisions look an awful lot like the post–Civil War period.
Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller, from left, administers the oath of office to Major William McKinley during his presidential inauguration in Washington, 1897 circa, as outgoing President Grover Cleveland looks. (Library of Congress via AP)
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