As best as I can tell–I’ve read The Earl of Louisiana, not All the King’s Men–Huey Long was a populist, pure and simple. He had designs on FDR’s job, and hence was anti-FDR. Was he an avatar of American fascism? Who knows, since he was murdered.

European Fascism is called right-wing because it was nationalist, and anti-communist, and because in some countries it made alliances with the Catholic Church. John Lukacs’s Last European War is very interesting on all this label-assigning. But how it applies to Americans is problematic. Lukacs himself has always been a very bad guide this point.

That’s why I would like a better idea of what Johnson was up to in Berlin.