That was followed by a national Democratic wave in 1890. One of the big issues that Dems exploited in that cycle was tariffs passed by a Republican trifecta (Benjamin Harrison was preside…
That was followed by a national Democratic wave in 1890. One of the big issues that Dems exploited in that cycle was tariffs passed by a Republican trifecta (Benjamin Harrison was president, and William McKinley was the Congressional power behind the tariffs) which sharply raised the prices of many consumer goods.
A terrific and uplifting read – the breaking-news article, Mike’s informative comment, and People’s Media’s wry reply. Ok, the latter was admittedly not uplifting. But, hey, such are the absurd consequences of Trump/Musk/Thiel’s path to Neo-Feudalism.
Fun historical fact: the last time a Democrat won a PA state Senate seat in Lancaster County was a special election in ....1889.
https://nitter.poast.org/PAMapper/status/1904727640809865413#m
That was followed by a national Democratic wave in 1890. One of the big issues that Dems exploited in that cycle was tariffs passed by a Republican trifecta (Benjamin Harrison was president, and William McKinley was the Congressional power behind the tariffs) which sharply raised the prices of many consumer goods.
Incredible. We’re doing measles! And segregation! And dropsy! And tariffs! And dysentery!
I’m so happy I get to live through the 1890s again.
Until you got to dropsy, it was the 2020s.
A terrific and uplifting read – the breaking-news article, Mike’s informative comment, and People’s Media’s wry reply. Ok, the latter was admittedly not uplifting. But, hey, such are the absurd consequences of Trump/Musk/Thiel’s path to Neo-Feudalism.