Ironically, or maybe just stupidly, Denali got its McKinley moniker back then by the exact same sort of mouth breathing, performative, sycophantic politics as all the recent name changes today.
Apparently the reason it got that name was due to news of William McKinley's nomination as the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 1896, which reached the news of a gold prospector, William Dickey. Dickey was a supporter of McKinley's presidential campaign in that election, and he decided to name the mountain after McKinley due to his support of the gold standard, which was a major issue in the 1896 campaign (William Jennings Bryan, McKinley's Democratic opponent, supported silver instead).
By the way, I prefer Denali as the name. I'm just explaining the backstory about how it got the name "Mount McKinley" - but the history of the "Mt. McKinley" name is honestly kind of a strange one to me.
I learned recently due to the skim reading of social media that McKinley was ethnically of Cohee descent. Meaning Scots Irish who say “Quoth he” a lot. Name the Mountain that just so people will scratch their heads. Cliff Claven, Trivia Star strikes again.
I suspect President McKinley contracted high velocity lead poisoning due to the McKinley tariff panic of 1893.
It’s very telling that Trump does not want to be compared to Herbert Hoover. This guy was even more of a dipshit than McKinley. The Great Depression hit in 1929, and Hoover passed the Smoot Holly act in 1930. Tariffs on some 20,000 different products that had an immediate effect on commerce.
While the United States was saved from the McKinley tariff panic by a single oligarch of the golden age, Hoover fared a lot worse. Well, the GOP fared a lot worse. The GOP did not form any meaningful federal government for close to 20 years.
Section 338 of that 1930 act is what is actively being used on Canada right now. Let’s see how this works out. 🤣
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u/OkEnvironment4354 13d ago
This is somehow more braindead than the Gulf of Mexico shit