Huey Long.... Reincarnated!!??

I've recently seen commentators liken Bernie Sanders to early 1900's political figures Eugene Debs and William Jennings Bryan. Both these figures ran multiple presidential campaigns, Debs as a Socialist and Bryan as a populist Democrat. Not a bad comparison, really, except I think these commentators mean the comparisons to be a slight to Sanders.

On the other side of the road... I would compare Donald Trump to former Louisiana governor and U.S. senator Huey Long. (Long was assassinated at the Louisiana state capitol building in 1936.) Long was brash, loud, bragging, bullying, abusive, and thrived on shenanigans in public, even to playing the buffoon. He gained a loyal following of low-educated farmers and bayou crackers who worshipped him, as he played the pied piper to them, promising them everything. (He did build Louisiana State University for everyone. He did come through with reforms. And just before he was assassinated, he posed a HUGE threat to the popularity of Franklin Roosevelt.)

But he was a Demagogue with a capital D. His politics were corrupt. He ruined people who got in his way. He promised the moon.

Today's Wall Street Journal (the WSJ has definitely opposed Trump, but as his popularity grows, they appear to be bending reluctantly toward him) had an op-ed that exposed how Trump has used the courts and government to roll over people who have opposed him also.

DOES ANYONE BESIDES ME SEE ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND HUEY LONG??

I'm not meaning at all to say Trump should or may be assassinated like Long was. Our country has seen enough of political assassinations. But swaggering demagoguery is a recurring phenomenon in our country. That is what we need to nip in the bud. Donald Trump is no buffoon in reality; he is shrewd, calculating, and I believe out for himself. Far from being concerned with the middle of lower classes, he is a billionaire and concerned with whatever concerns billionaires.

Huey Long arose from the lower rung of Louisiana society and never liked the high society people of that state. He did accomplish some things for his group. Can we trust Mr. Trump to do anything for the working class?