Was he right?

>>2792511
Yeah. Huey Long had his issues (hunger for power and poor alliance-building) but could have made American society substantially more free and egalitarian given enough time and authority. It would be very interesting to see how an America under his watch would develop, especially in its relationship to capital and to international socialist movements who shared many of his aims.

Unlike Roosevelt, who was brought toward redistribution and social justice kicking and screaming, Huey Long was a lifelong champion of the rights of the masses. Until they killed him.

>>2792511
Based. The American Union State should have won.

He was basically Bernie Sanders of the 30s right? Ben Shapiro recommended a new biography about him today is that why the thread was created?
Of course the assassination would make him a martyr but in this case I can't say I feel bad for him.

>>2792642
He was Sanders but much farther to the left and with an authoritarian streak.

Closest analog would be Chavez.

>>2792642
No, he was Trump of the 30s. The rhetoric is exactly the same, the supporters are the same, the opponents are the same, etc. They only differ in a handful of pragmatics issues.

>>2792642
He was Eugene Debs before he went to jail

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>>2792511

Why'd American populism die out?

>>2793885

Token pittances, anti-socialist rhetoric, union-busting, the civil rights movement, American cultural focus on race relations over class, the usual New World stuff.

>>2792637
>liking the AUS
>not crushing the AUS and the CSA with the based federal government
Kaiserreich is GOAT tier

>>2792642

Kind of. The far-left southern farmer-populist was a very unique phenomenon in the early 20th c and kind of hard to compare to anything today

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>>2792511
AUS is the best kaiserreich country

>>2792642
>Ben Shapiro
Who gives a fuck about him? A literally who infected into the mainstream conciousness for no reason other than his own aims and those whose intesect with his. Stop popularizing pop culture pundits.

>>2793885
1965 Immigration Act and those who wanted to fracture the American identity for personal gain.

>>2796289

this desu

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>>2793732

>>2792511
Nah he was very far left. FDR made America a third socialized but at least he was a rational person doing so in a measured and strategic way while keeping his limits in mind (trying to stack the supreme court notwithstanding). Huey Long was just daffy dude and him trying to deliver on his promises would have ended in disaster

>>2793885

It hasn't, look at the past election.

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>>2793885

anon...

>American populist with his own brand of nationalism advocating US non-interventionism who was an increasingly viable threat to FDR, allied with popular radio pundit Father Charles Coughlin who called out "Jewish Bankers, whose second hand man called the New Deal the "Jew Deal", ended up getting shot by a Jew and then had his surgery botched by another Jew.

What a shocker.

>>2797473
Trump really isn't comparable to traditional American populism. He's a fair bit more right-wing and conservative too.

>>2798172
So was Huey Long, the only difference is that Trump makes a few lukewarm gestures in regards to media """"""""""issues""""""""" like abortion and gay marriage whereas Huey Long didn't because he didn't HAVE to; all the issues he talked about were economic because the American media hadn't been dominated by a handful of oligarchs yet.

>>2798195
He was the most outspoken antiracist politician from his era in the South

>>2798195

Huey Long had much more in common with Bernie Sanders.

>The rich people are screwing us over and we have to spread the wealth by raising taxes on the highest earners and using the extra money to build schools and roads and stuff like that.

>>2792642
>He was basically Bernie Sanders of the 30s right
Not even close. Sanders is a socialist. Long was a distributist.

>>2794835
>when you drive the money changers from the temple