The Tariff of Abominations was signed into law by John Quincy Adams in 1828. It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans ...

as if he imposed them in a Jackson style fit of pique. On “The Joe Rogan Experience” in October, Mr. Trump did a better job laying out the promise of tariffs. In the Gilded Age, Mr. Trump said, ...

‘We raised tariffs in this instance,’ that’s where things go awry. Or the story doesn’t quite hold together as well," Irwin said. The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and ... That’s when we were a tariff country. And then they went to an income tax concept,” Trump said days after taking office.