Ruuubeee—ooah?
“BEST choice” for the RINOS?
Certainly the best choice for the Mehhickaans—not for Americans, though.
Trump?
Ugh!——He’s just not ONE OF US!
Townhall publishes unreadable tripe like this. It tries to be clever but says nothing.
Oh? How am I to take any of this article seriously when the author calls Marco "Amnesty" Rubio the best hope?
Obviously, the people don't think the same way, or they would have voted for him. Looks like the people think Trump is the best hope.
He didn’t mention Long’s greatest enemy: FDR.
Long was indeed a demagogue, but FDR redefined the word “ruthless”, especially to his political opponents. Standing against him, as Long intended to do, was a great way to end up either leaving the country, politically neutered, or dead.
When Long was assassinated, many people in the US just assumed that it had been brought about by FDR, since it was just one month prior to Long announcing his run for president against Roosevelt.
“What we were doing in this country were some of
the things that were being done in Russia and even
some of the things that were being done under
Hitler in Germany. But we were doing them in an
orderly way.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Greenberg equating Trump to Huey Long is a dangerous GOPe dog whistle. It is a despicable veiled attempt to excuse the assassination of Trump.
Here’s a true one on what kind of man Huey was.
As Governor of Louisiana when oil was being discovered in big deposits along the coast, he arranged his own oil company “The Win or Lose Oil Company” to possess lucrative oil and gas leases.
His family since that time has taken $273mm in royalties on those leases.
We need another Huey Long in power, right?
huey was a democrat.
I had been thinking about our American demagogues— William j. Bryan, George Wallace, Father Caughlin, Gerald L.K. Smith and Huey Long as comparisons to Donal Trump.
All of them were heads of ‘populist movements’ that espoused ideas of ‘making American great again’ in times of great despair for a large group of Americans. All of them were ‘nativists’ who pointed to scapegoats for the decline of America and promised simple solutions to answer the problms.
Trump has one big advantage in that he is rich enough to finance his own unusual campaign for President.