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Nice. This is the first I’ve heard-of or read about Huey Long: "When he was gone it seemed that a beneficent peace had fallen on the land. Father Coughlin, Reno, Townsend, et al., were after all pygmies compared with Huey. He had been a major phenomenon."

The demagogue party has flipped, but of course we’re living with the consequences all the same.



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