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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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Trump's diagnosis of the economy of the 1880s/1890s is at odds with some of the most popular primary sources that I teach on the Gilded Age. Here are a few. 1st, the Preamble to the "Omaha Platform" of the People's Party, which says in part, "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen."/1
MAGA is wanting financial panics every 3-5 years.
That’s also … not why McKinley was assassinated …
and just think they still had bounty on us Natives quite disgusting
Next, Edward Bellamy's utopian novel LOOKING BACKWARD, 2000-1887, written in the 1880s that highlights the irrational nature of American capitalism of the time by contrasting with a rational, socialistic (albeit mildly authoritarian) future./2
LG
Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
3.7k followers789 following1.7k posts