Rick – I agree with all that, and I like the Last European War as well. However, this touches directly on much of the stuff I’ve been working on for the last year or two and I should say that I disagree with the idea that populist is a term that automatically yanks one out of the left-right spectrum. After all, if it did Nazism would not and could not be rightwing in any way since few scholars dispute that it was a thoroughly populist phenomenon. Without getting deep in the weeds, it seems to me that Long was a populist of the left. It’s impossible to put his Share the Wealth plan or his other major political-policy positions on the right. So what’s left about him that makes him a rightwinger? Not much, save the fact that he’s somewhat inconvenient to liberals — and sometimes that’s all it takes to find yourself on the right.