Sidney
louisiana senator in the 30s, got assassinated in like 36? He’s been popularized for being in a hearts of iron 4 mod “kaiserreich” for being a right wing populist that is against socialism or in that timeline, “syndicalism” and also known for his “share the wealth” programs
Here's my analysis of Long.
I'll mention first that Long had never made race a main talking point for his gubernatorial or senatorial campaigns. The Ku Klux Klan very much hated Long, and when an Imperial Wizard tried to primary him, he declared that, "That imperial bastard will never step foot in Lousiana or he'd leave with his toes tured up." and said of the Imperial Wizard, "When I call him a son-of-a-bitch, I'm not using profanity, but rather, am referring to the circumstances of his birth." During Long's tenure as governor, he eliminated the Lousiana poll tax. I will concede that he voted against federal anti-lynching legislation, but later said that it was the state govt's "duty" to stop lyncing.
"Share Our Welath" policies had mutual benefit for people across the board who had little access to education, work, and food. His programs created night schools, which allowed working class people, both white and black, to become literate. When Long was assassinated, the NAACP publication, "The Crisis," declared, "Of the late Senator Huey P. Long, Negro Americans may say that he was the only Southern politician in recent decades to achieve the national spotlight without the use of racial and color hatred as campaign material."
Second, when FDR's New Deal came into law, he critiqued it for not going far enough in terms of wealth distribution. "Share Our Welath" had every family with a minimum income, and millionaires, a capped income. And at the time of his death, Long was primarying FDR in the Democratic Party presidential race because of FDR's lack of wealth redistribution programs in the New Deal, claiming that FDR backstabbed his supporters. (edited)
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