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This Year’s Election Dramas Are Tranquil Compared With America’s First Presidential Contests

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that’s made President Trump’s three presidential contests a wild ride.

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DANIEL McCARTHY
DANIEL McCARTHY

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that’s made President Trump’s three presidential contests a wild ride.

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DANIEL McCARTHY
DANIEL McCARTHY

Mr. McCarthy is a vice president at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the editor-in-chief of its magazine Modern Age: A Conservative Review. He is also a regular contributor to the Spectator’s World edition. He has a long association with the American Conservative, and his writing has appeared in an array of publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, Reason, the Daily Telegraph and the New York Post.

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