By 1892, a giddily consumerist, venomously partisan Gilded Age society had gotten good at churning out campaign tchotchkes.
The 1892 election marked Cleveland and Harrison’s second contest against each other.
The repeated, deadening matchups of Cleveland and Harrison in 1888 and 1892 did just that.
There are other rematches in American presidential history, but 1892 was the only time a sitting president lost re-election, ran four years later against his vanquisher, and won.
That weird race has a message for all those planning to hit snooze on the coming campaign: Great political change can unfold when the system seems woefully stalled.
Persons:
Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, Harrison, tchotchkes
Organizations:
Cleveland, Biden, Trump
Locations:
Cleveland