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Canada's first prime minister, a Conservative and architect of the 1867 Confederation: he built the transcontinental railway, adopted the protectionist National Policy tariffs, crushed the Métis Rebellion and created the Indigenous residential schools.
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John A. Macdonald leans further toward assimilation than 86% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Immigration is where John A. Macdonald stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, John A. Macdonald sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Current that unites traditional values, family, and religion with strong cultural nationalism, defending sovereignty, borders, and the people's identity within democracy, with clear distrust of globalism.
Current that mobilizes the people against political and cultural elites, combining nationalism, immigration restriction, traditional values, public religion, strong security, and anti-establishment economic pragmatism around personalist leaders.
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist25%
German banker who headed the Reichsbank (1923–1930 and 1933–1939). He ended the 1923 hyperinflation and, as Hitler's economics minister, financed rearmament with Mefo bills; jailed after the 1944 plot, he was acquitted at Nuremberg.
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A presidential republic in Central America, El Salvador gained prominence for its tough security policy against gangs and its adoption of bitcoin, uniting strong popular support and the concentration of power in the executive.
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A powerful medieval merchant republic, Venice was governed by a commercial oligarchy that dominated Mediterranean trade, uniting stable institutions, a strong navy, and immense economic power for centuries.
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