Huey Long had a saying: If Fascism comes to America it will come as Anti-Fascism. Huey Long knew what he was talking about. One of the shrewdest purveyors of political narcotics ever to appear on the American scene, he had a keen nose for popular moods. Looking back with some thirty years hindsight it seems hardly likely that even if the assassin’s bullet hadn’t cut short his career the Louisiana Kingfish could have become Kingfish of the nation. An even more astute political operator had moved into the White House. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was skillfully channelling griefs and discontents into his New Deal.
Shakespeare’s discerning lines:
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