I think your line “Huey didn’t care about the Communism scare, because he thought if he gave no reasons for Communists to exist they’d go away” was very poignant.
@@giovannicervantes2053 Makes sense in theory but communists believe in the prophetic end-goal utopia. The sooner capitalism collapses, the better. Gives a roll of the dice to decide if this time will be the right version of communism. They don't want to wait for capitalism to collapse naturally, they want to make it collapse as fast as possible. Because they already believe it WILL collapse based on the prophecy. It's why you see them talk about how monopolies are the epitome of capitalistic greed and excess, but then simultaneously support policies that these monopolies lobby the government for that further locks down and manipulates the market to further their monopoly status and eliminate competition and family owned businesses. It's why they complain about how oppressive companies are but then switch sides completely and tell you why a private company should be able to violate human rights when it comes to free speech or X Y or Z, because it's supposed to paint the companies as evil and oppressive, and then retroactively give them clearance to behave that way. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. In short, it's very hard to appease them, because they already believe in a mystic promised land and are typically willing to give everything away for a chance to gamble with the dice again. It would be harder to be indoctrinated into the cult in the first place, if things are good and fair. The problem is, the government and corporations love this cult. They keep giving them more power and money. The government and corporations use them as useful idiots, and said useful idiots believe they are getting closer and closer to the collapse of capitalism.
@@giovannicervantes2053 Especially the anticommunist thing. Wtf were they smoking?! Were their advisors, in addition to that mass murderer Henry kissinger, also the mid century Germans they rescued when the third Reich collapsed? Those Germans weren't far right because they actually murdered the right wing conservative politicians who helped them get into power. They were just as left wing as the bolsheviks and us policy makers probably lapped up their crap ideas.
@@Drheims yeah, especially cause he was far less racist than basically every other politician (yes, he didn't get the voting rights and didn't vote for an anti-lynching bill, but otherwise, he mostly helped them).
This guy would be a great potential leader of an American faction in an hypothetical American civil war in an alt history scenario where… Well for the sake of argument let’s just say the Kaiser won or something
@@Franco18181hypothetically it would result in another mod for said WWII game. Said mod would have its core concept as “what if the triple entente won WWI?”
@@cloakedhornets6515 I got a great idea... what if you also made a parody of this mod where people from that scenario tried to imagine ours, since the main defining feature of this one would be the nazis let's call it... "Fuhrerreich"!
Why weep or slumber America Land of brave and true With castles and clothing and food for all All belongs to you Every man a King, every man a King For you can be a millionaire But there's something belonging to others There's enough for all people to share When it's sunny June and December too Or in the Winter time or Spring There'll be peace without end Every neighbor a friend With every man a King
@@craigstephenson7676except for the fact that Trump did absolutely nothing for the common man he so often purported to fight for. Turned out to be nothing more than another corporate crony.
4:12 I really appreciate you clarifying that the Louisiana Establishment was ontologically evil. The fact that pre-Long Louisiana was a backwards territory somewhere between an economic colony and a plantation state that hadn’t moved on from the Antebellum Era is critical for understanding Huey Long and the Long Era in Louisiana - but it’s far too often glossed over in favor of focusing on Long’s actions specifically and ignoring the context they took place in. Whether Long was a democrat or dictator, pre-Long Louisiana was decidedly not a genuine democracy - it was an oligarchy where poor white and black participation in politics was systematically oppressed. [1] I’d personally make the argument that Long was a net-positive for Democracy in the long-term, because his machine destroyed said oligarchy and expanded popular participation in politics. 7:54 To the list of Long’s accomplishments, I’ll also add the literacy classes the state ran from 1929-1930. As you noted the state’s literacy rate for adults was absolutely dismal, and his program taught over 100,000 people reading, writing, and basic arithmetic, and due to these efforts the state was dragged out of being the most illiterate state in the union. What’s also notable is that the program was pretty targeted towards African-Americans - African-Americans had a far higher illiteracy rate than whites, and the program taught roughly 20,000 whites but over 80,000 African Americans. Now that’s *very* small change in racial politics by modern standards, especially when we’re talking about the 1930s South, but I do think it helps show that Long (who bragged about the programs benefits for African-Americans on at least one occasion) had a different attitude towards race compared to the average “southern populist” of the era (the Coleman Blease and Eugene Talmadge types). [2] 9:32 Funny you use the George Norris Wojak (Norrisjak?) there - one of the few men in the Senate Long had a positive relationship with was George Norris. They conferred together often in the senate and Norris was a man Long had genuinely high respect for. [3] 11:05 On the topic of whether Long actually wanted to kill that enemy of his - Long historians who’ve analyzed the claim seriously doubt it was real, and one anti-Long legislator said “No, I didn’t believe Battling Bozeman’s [the guy testifying against Long] story but what a wonderful witness he made.” At most a very drunk Long might have made a joke about killing the opponent, but Long wasn’t being earnest and the entire thing wasn’t serious despite what the anti-Long’s wanted to make it seem. It’s worth noting that later on, when someone suggested to Long that he kill the critic that ended up being kidnapped, Long was reportedly outraged and beat up the guy who suggested it. [4] 12:04 Very minor correction - Irby was most likely kidnapped not over his plan to reveal corruption (the type of charge about corruption Irby had was fairly common and ultimately trivial, both in the pre-Long era and during Long’s tenure), but rather that he’d reveal Long cheated on his wife with his secretary, which could seriously damage Long in the final days of an ongoing campaign. [5] 13:40 You could argue Long did have one notable (albeit unofficial) accomplishment in the Senate: the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act. The act expanded debt relief for bankrupt farmers, and Long was so critical in getting it passed that “his name could justly be added to the bill’s title”. [6] 15:00 - On the topic of a potential Long Presidency - I think the historian Alan Brinkley makes a good case that Long more likely than not would *not* have become President had he lived. Despite the large membership numbers, the Share Our Wealth clubs were fairly disorganized on the ground level and many of Long's followers were still supportive of Roosevelt and quite a few were indicating that they would pick FDR if they were forced to choose between the two. Of course anything is possible had he lived, just wanted to make a note of it. [7] Overall a solid basic overview of his life, I dropped a like. I enjoyed your vid on Crump as well. If you haven't made a video on him, I'd recommend taking a look at James Michael Curley, another colorful machine boss. Sources: [1] “Sharing the Hate - The Louisiana Establishment and Huey Long” by Alex J. McManus, p. 169 [2] “Huey Long” by T. Harry Williams, p. 523, “The Development of Public School Adult Academic Education in Louisiana” by Edward Daniel Schumacherp, p. 20, “Huey Long - A Candid Biography” by Forrest Davis p. 240 [3] Williams, 559 [4] McManus, 67-68, Williams, 473 [5] Williams, 473 [6] Williams, 710-711 [7] “Voices of Protest - Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression” by Alan Brinkley, p. 182, 243-244
"ontologically evil" smh I'm not gonna read anymore of it everybody likes to illustrate Louisiana as this perpetually backwards evil place when we have never been that. We're just extra different culturally than the rest of the south
>had a different attitude towards race compared to the average “southern populist” of the era (the Coleman Blease and Eugene Talmadge types). Lmao it's funny that the person you're referring to writes himself "He discussed the racial problem fairly frequently, and on these occasions he talked like a typical white Southerner he was for segregation and white supremacy all the way. " (Williams p704). Also Huey also accused Hoover of favoring "Negro domination," adding, "We believe this is a white man's country and are not willing to turn it over to the Negroes." While Hoover won the presidency, Louisiana gave Smith his largest statewide majority. ("Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr" p.40) In addition, Williams was later criticized by historian Glen Jeansonne argues the opposite, that Long was "more racist, less impartial, less principled and less different from other Louisiana politicians of his time than suggests historical Literature If Long's record on encouraging black voting is hardly sterling, one might argue that at least his economic program helped blacks. But that aid was marginal and unintentional. He provided no pensions or employment benefits to white or black Louisianians-outsiders sometimes attribute Louisiana's welfare net to Huey but the credit actually belongs to his brother Earl, governor in the 1940s and 1950s. In fact, Huey opposed such programs and specifically argued that the money would be wasted on blacks. During the 1932 gubernatorial campaign he attacked a plan for old age pensions advocated by anti-Long candidate Dudley LeBlanc. He complained that LeBlanc's promise of $30 per month for those over 60 would cost $60,000,000. "And LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to negroes, too," Long said, "because don't you think he is going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost $20,000,000 a year to pay the negroes' pensions alone, and you white people will be working the year around to pay pensions to negroes." When two black ministers attempted to attend a meeting of clergy who favored sharing the wealth, they were turned away, told they were not invited. Blacks were permitted to attend rallies so long as they remained around the fringes of the crowd and did not mingle with whites. Education also remained Jim Crowed, and "New Orleans had not a single vocational or trade school that blacks could attend." Trade unionism among black people were discouraged, they were accommodated with the least priority in hospitals, and their presence was prohibited from parks and swimming pools; Long never challenged such racial barriers, rather indicating his support of segregationist policies in, at one point, condemning a plan in nearby Mississippi to establish a theater for blacks. In addition, the Long Administration never appointed any black individuals to notable public positions. He specifically denied to Roy Wilkins that he planned any special economic or political program for blacks. Jeansonne, Glen . Huey Long and Racism 1992, 273-275.
Dawg what? You’re cutting out the rest of that section from Willliams, where he goes on to *explicitly describe Long as a racial moderate* for his time and far better than other southern politicians on race. He describes how Long pretended to be a hardcore segregationist (which explains comments such as that on Hoover and the Mississippi theater) rhetorically when necessary to block accusations he was "soft" on race, but was quite willing to help blacks out under the table via his economic programs, such as his literacy program and reductions on taxes for the poor, and felt a genuine sympathy for the plight of poor African-Americans. Either read the sources you’re talking about before making wild claims about what they’re saying, or don’t manipulate and misquote them when it’s convenient. (Williams, p. 704-706) Jeansonne is known to be a historian more interested in blackwashing Long more than providing a balanced view. McManus provides a good summary of Long historiography, and he gives this short but quite piercing assessment of Jeansonne’s work, which I’ll quote in full to get the point across: "The last academic historian to do the Long grand tour, writing a series of scholarly articles and a short biography, was Jeansonne. An imitation o f Jeansonne’s approach would be to write that since Jeansonne did not footnote his biography, it does not meet the standard required of a scholarly publication. Jeansonne’s work was a sustained attack on Long’s personality. While Williams explored Long’s political personality in detail, he paid due attention to other individuals as part o f a wider examination o f events. Furthermore, Williams framed his analysis o f Long in a superb series of 1960 lectures entitled Romance and Realism in Southern Politics. In them, Williams analyzed the sweep of Southern history and juxtaposed Long’s economic realism (and the realism of Reconstruction and 1890’s populism) to the romantic sectionalism prevalent in Southern politics No scholar of Long has approached the quantity and quality of Williams’ contextualization. In the biography, Williams didn’t overindulge in amateur psychoanalysis any more than academic biographers usually will - and they usually will. On the other hand, Jeansonne went deeper into the personality hole and didn’t emerge; he collapsed nuance and evolution, making no distinction between the political and the private, or between Long the boy and Long the man, or between the Long of 1928 and the Long of 1934-5. The work was superficial; there was no texture - no coherent, logical line of thought - to his contempt for Long. Jeansonne wrote that Williams’ Huey Long was diminished by 'a failure to place him in a state or national context,' but Jeansonne’s work, including his articles, provided much less context than Williams’ - with Jeansonne we huddle around the fascinating but terrible fire of Long’s personality, mesmerized, while everything else is darkness." (McManus, 21-22) Yes, Long did devolve into race-baiting on rare occasions and as I say in my original comment, he wasn’t great on race from a modern perspective. The comment about pensions, made during the climax of an already ugly campaign in 1932, was among the worst of it. BUT such sentiments were overall empirical and not representative of his overall views or style. For instance, in the senate he supported making pensions a federal project so African-Americans wouldn’t be discriminated against in southern states. The black press at the time literally praised him for race baiting far less than other southern politicians. That incident with the black ministers being turned away may have happened, but if it did, it was an anomaly and I doubt Long was directly involved - Long was quite interested in getting blacks to participate in Share-Our-Wealth clubs. Saying that Long “promised no special programs for blacks” is the usual twisting of words that create a technically true statement but don't provide the full picture that Jeansonne likes to employ. It ignores the fact that Long was promising that blacks would benefit from Share-Our-Wealth economic program as much as whites would - not perfect in a world with Jim Crow to be sure, but better than what other southern populists were saying. (Williams, p. 836, 705, 701, 706) Again, from a modern perspective, Long was not great on race, and perhaps I should have made that clearer in my original comment. It’s fair enough to criticize him for doing nothing to challenge Jim Crow directly or enfranchise African-Americans. Few people from the 1930s were non-racist by today’s standards and even fewer explicitly challenged Jim Crow. *But for the time of the 1930s and for the place of the American South*, it's accurate to describe Long as a relativity moderate on racial issues, or “had a different attitude towards race compared to the average “southern populist” of the era (the Coleman Blease and Eugene Talmadges of the era)". He was never animated by racial prejudices like those men were. The appeal of his economic populism crossed racial lines, and African-American Louisianans of time were near universal in their praising of the man. I think this fact communicates well that, whatever his faults, for his time and place he deserves some credit. (Williams, 705) In this sense (on race specifically) I would make the comparison to FDR, who also didn't challenge Jim Crow and was not entirely free from racial prejudices, but who's economic programs and lack of constant bigotry inspired and gave hope to the black population which helped pave a path for future civil rights efforts. It was the Long faction in Louisiana politics who, in the 1950s, were defenders of black voting rights and desired compliance with federal civil rights laws. Burton Wheeler, who knew Long quite well, wrote in his memoirs that Long had “Far less racial prejudice in him than any other southerner in the senate.” I doubt he did that for no reason. (Wheeler, 282) Sources: Williams McManus “Yankee From the West” by Burton Wheeler
@@ShermanVanBuren Lmao bro. I quoted him to the point that even Williams did not deny that he was a supporter of segregation, albeit with some indulgences. As for the personalities, T. Harry Williams himself is accused portraying Huey Long as racially enlightened by the standards of his time. Williams himself also often refers in his biography to an oral interview of people without documentary fixation. At that time, there were quite a few references in Glimson's report, including to Williams himself. In addition, the certificate about use the race aganist anti-Long candidate Dudley LeBlanc it is also found in the book "Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr". As you can see already been a steady stream of first-hand testimonies, studies, and academic literature already from Long's contemporaries that debunked the view of him as some sort of 'particularly enlightened on race for his time'. About The Senator, "Despite his progressive rhetoric, he joined his conservative colleagues from the South when he voted against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill."("Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr" ) You can quote me as saying I'll vote 100 per cent against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill that's brought up there in Washington," he said. "We just lynch an occasional [N-word]. No federal anti-lynching bill would help that." For comparison that President Franklin D. Roosevelt quite about this bill/. "If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, [Southern Democrats] will block every bill I ask Congress to pass the keep America from collapsing. I just can’t take the risk." So if we talk about racial moderation, it is primarily FDR, not Kingfish. Kingfish was a firm supporter of segregation, which can be seen even in this example. like his southern democrats friends. Also Long's famous Share Our Wealth program accepted black members, but only as "second-class constituents" and in regions "where it would not unduly antagonize whites." Long's chief lieutenants, Gerald L. K. Smith (the organizer of Share Our Wealth) and Leander Perez (his impeachment attorney), were outspoken white supremacists throughout their political careers. And Lousiana... In a speech a couple of nights later, LeBlanc called Huey and O.K. "nigger lovers." After LeBlanc promised a $30-a-month old-age pension for every Louisianan over sixty, Huey claimed, "LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to Negroes, too, because don't you think he is going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost twenty million dollars a year to pay the Negroes' pensions alone, and you white people will be working the year around to pay the pensions to Negroes." ("Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr" ) "And LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to Negroes too, because don't you think he's going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost $20,000,000 a year to pay the Negroes' pensions alone, and you white people will be working the year around to pay those pensions to Negroes." - Huey P. Long He provided no pensions or employment benefits to white or black Louisianans- outsiders sometimes attribute Louisiana's welfare net to Huey but the credit actually belongs to his brother Earl, governor in the 1940s and 1950s. In fact, Huey opposed such programs and specifically argued that the money would be wasted on blacks. Disenfranchising blacks diluted the influence of conservative planters who controlled black votes. Without such disenfranchisement under the Constitution of 1898 Huey Long might have remained a railroad commissioner, if that be. ("Schott, "Class Conflict in Louisiana Voting Since 1877," 154; Dethloff, "The Longs: Revolution or Populist Retrenchment," 404-40) "Disenfranchisement of blacks weakened the Bourbon faction because under the corrupt system of the times blacks were counted as having voted for the conservative Democratic candidates-regardless of how they actually voted or whether they voted at all. For example, the six parishes including East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Bossier and West Feliciana contained 3,779 registered white voters and 19,735 black voters. In the watershed election of 1896 they cast 16,000 votes for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Murphy J. Foster and only 139 for Populist-Republican candidate John N. Pharr. The Democrats carried twenty-three of the thirty parishes in which black voters outnumbered whites." However, if there was any help (like Williams say: he could then do some things that breached the pattern of segregation), it did not undermine the superiority of the white race in Louisiana in any way , and was quite in the spirit of the Dixiecrats' "separate but equal" policy. (for there were primarily economic benefits, and not an attempt at desegregation) Otherwise, if Long harbored some sort of genuine anti-racist convictions (he certainly did implement them with vast political powers invested in him within his own state), but he didn`t. "His program helped blacks inadvertently, not deliberately, and he avoided helping them when he could do so without denying aid to his white constituents. His political machine so dominated Louisiana that it could have withstood such expression. On issues he deemed meaningful he did not lack courage, even audacity. He did not hesitate to take an unpopular stand which might lose votes when it suited his purposes. For example, his rejection of federal relief money for Louisiana from the Roosevelt administration stood to gain him little but revenge. It was spiteful, not politically practical, yet he did it. He could have done the same on the race issue had it mattered as much; it might have gained him stature nationwide and promoted his national ambitions. That he did not do so implies either that he did not care or that he cared less for blacks than for other priorities. Other Southern white politicians, faced with the same alternatives, have made more courageous choices: John M. Parker in Long's own time and state, Jimmy Carter, more recently. Parker took an unequivocal stand against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan, at a time when it was a formidable political force, while Long condemned it only after it became weak and discredited. Carter refused to join the White Citizens' Council at the peak of its popularity in Georgia, voted to desegregate his church, and challenged George Wallace in the Southern presidential primaries." (Jeansonne, Glen (1992). Huey Long and Racism. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 30, No. 3, p. 265. TL;DR Despite popular mythology, Huey Long was not ahead of his time on racial issues and his racial policy was not much different from the "Separately but Equally" dixiecrats. After all, he's a southern Democrat, damn it! And hospitals and schools for Blacks were built in apartheid South Africa, and in white Rhodesia, where the regime was much milder than Long's in Louisiana, but this does not prevent our left-wing friends from writing Smith down as "Fascists" P.s. Gerald L K Smith also write as "In him there was no trace of racial antipathy", but he is not an authority for you, because he "was evil Fascist".
Fun little tidbit Huey P Newton, one of the founders of the black panther party, was actually named after Huey Long. In his book, Revolutionary Suicide, Newton actually dedicates a paragraph to how his father admired Long for his ability to say one thing to get the support of Louisiana’s political class before doing the exact opposite. (I.e: using racist rhetoric to have black women work menial labor; but as Newton saw it, Long just enriched the black community by giving them inroads into the nursing profession and generally giving more job opportunities)
Huey Longs death is essentially a canon event as spiderverse would put it, guy had so many fucking enemies, if one person did not kill him, someone else would, the only difference I can possibly see in any alternative timeline that only avoids his death, is delaying it till later and getting more of his goals done or somehow getting elected in 1940 (I don't see a 1936 campaign as remotely realistic in doing anything different besides maybe getting the Republican candidate in office) and maybe living long enough for the at that point inevitable Pearl Harbor attack causing enough of a rally effect to keep him alive. At least till the war is over.
Huey Long, a truly principled populist hero, who took all means necessary to reform the quasi-feudal state of Louisiana. I wonder why he isn’t discussed more often? Love the channel dude, great content and some really fascinating characters. Was really surprised to see you covered Mitch Werbell III. One of the spookiest and most overlooked characters in Cold War American history.
Hes not talked about because he was a true leftist on a worldly scale during a time leftists were truly condemned (The cold war). And his policies were working alot more than other states. He simply would've proven Americas own anti leftist endeavors to be wrong. Hes not talked about simply because he was a factor in the cold war
@@bavingates2502 he was also very progressive in the end he made sure african Americans got educated properly literacy was very high for them during his time like really high
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle also the right to wealth act which allowed people who were denied by banks and corporations for jobs because of skin color to apply for (at the time it was $90 now it's $250) to be put in their account
This video was certainly a Long time coming, huh? Love him or hate him, Huey did more tangible shit as a politician in his short life than most modern politicians do today after 80+ years on earth.
I've traveled a lot from the political left to the right and from the right to the left, in fact I still do, but no matter what point of view I look at him, Huey Long is always based.
@@Kijanek_ Literally me, fr fr. (Though I finally settled down after a *long* search for myself as a mostly moderate centrist and social conservative as well, as the extremes of left and right are always wrong.)
@@chrisbosdijk7237 Well, I am not, and Huey P. Long is at least as based as Gustav Stresemann (basically the guy who stopped the Austrian painter during the beer hall Putsch).
I like how biographies of important historical figures have 1 of 2 college experiences. 1: become god among men and rank 1st-4th among the entire student body. 2: get drunk and have a gigantic gambling debt and drop out within the first year.
@@xxslomegaxx9574 tired? Because his policies actually worked? Lmao even if the judge was gerrymandered so what? Gerry mandering to the right wing is just properly representing a district
literally just saw your last video about SocCred in Canada this morning and checked the comments to see the king fish himself was up next. Glad i didnt have to wait long
Huey Long is definitely one of those people that you can see where the alternate timeline got cut off. Would love to see an episode on Dan "the Man" Sickles.
Even if he was a bit tyrannical I'd much have a competent albeit kinda authoritarian politician that do what he's supposed to rather than a "democracy" of career politicians that only serve themselves, as a Brazilian I know that feeling oh so darn well...
if you want to branch into UK politicians I would start with Enoch Powell the man went to oxford, became a professor of greek at 23, then became the youngest brigadier in the army during ww2, went on to become an MP and then didn't become prime minister because of a bit of tomfoolery with the Prime Minister
Okay this is epic, the Kingfish is truly a legend. May I suggest Tom L. Johnson for your next person to discuss. Mans was a street car monopolist who read Henry George's book about how monopolism and landlords are bad, and dedicated the rest of his life to being among the most progressive mayor and congressman ever. Any relevancy Cleveland has today is because of him.
Youre like my favorite TH-camr. I learn so much about history from you. The Jokes are amazing. Keep up the good work, never get discouraged. We're in your corner 100%
What Long did was pretending to be hard on communists but still having some communistic policies. American would enjoy communism it it weren’t called communism.
I learned about him when I read "It can't happen here" back in the day and heard it was a commentary on Huey Long. Who knows what would have happened if he became president.... I doubt he would shy away from anything really.
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save But though he lost his life while struggling for the slave HIS SOOOUL IS MARCHING ON!!!
John Brown was one of the coolest dudes out there. There really are just a handful of people in US history which really represent what the US should be all about and he is one of them.,
Junger was the most based man to ever live. A Reactionary conservative Nazbol Anti Nazi Hard Drugs enthusiast a beloved war hero of the BOTH world wars accomplished author and he literally treated his service in world war 1 like he was on a europe tour
@@sherwingonsalves8821 I know. Junger was based as hell. 😎👍 Ernst Junger, Peter Kemp, and JRR Tolkien are three great men I would definitely call based.
"highly progressive" When Huey Long discussed the racial issue, and in these cases he spoke like a typical Southern Democrat and accused Hoover of favoring "Negro domination," adding, “We believe this is a white man's country and are not willing to turn it over to the Negroes. Some Longists like, Gerald L. K. Smith (the organizer of Share Our Wealth) and Leander Perez (Huey impeachment attorney), were outspoken white supremacists throughout their political careers.
@Spartan761 - History, you should do a video on Ian Paisley, he was a Protestant politician in Northern Ireland during the Troubles who once interrupted a speech by Pope John Paul II by calling him the Antichrist.
Every Man a King is such a good campaign slogan and he has likewise a crazy good life story. I thank Kaiserreich for letting us know about this what would otherwise be niche governor in backwards LA. Also he really is just a Teddy Roosevelt who is just went crazy.
Does bad methods make a bad man? No. Its context that makes a man. If Huey lived in a society that was just, his unjust actions would be wrong. But honor is only to shown to those not dishonorable. With Lousiana fucked as it was at the time? Unless he had a cabal of likeminded and able comrades, the only option was assymetric warfare as he used.
And will stay a shit hole for the rest of eternity until our state gets slowly consumed by our own beloved Gulf Coast, but well, it is a shit hole. It is a beautiful place with a lovely culture and amazing food, and incredibly nice people
"The second most based US politician besides Theodore Roosevelt" I know he's super well-known but you need to cover T.R. He's the quintessential terachad
Why weep or slumber, America? Land of brave and true! With castles, and clothing, and food for all... All belongs to you! Every man a King! Every man a King! For you can be a millionaire! But there's something belonging to others... There's enough for all people to share! When in sunny June Or November, too Or in the winter-time Or Spring! There'll be peace without end! Every neighbor a friend! AND EVERY MAN A KING!!!
Learned about Huey Long since I live in LA. When your in middle school you dont really think about stuff people believe but as ive learned more about Huey he seems interesting as a potential President. Ive seen the bullet holes in the capital where he was shot!
Huey Long was the 20th century Plato and that’s as much of a problem as it was a good thing for his pre-existing constituents in the South. He was also a Dixiecrat and that is a major problem on its own. Protestants love “Separate but equal”.
Great video! Could you do one of colombian populist Jorge Eliecer Gaitan? He is pretty normal for the kind of people covered, but his assasination sparked a lowkey civil war in Colombia.
Louisiana has never seen a more *BASED KING*
Facts
The South.
Minus John Brown if you want to be pedantic.
@@mitchellwright5478no, Brown was evil and killed and raped innocent people
EVERY MAN A KING! I also like how he called his personal campaign fund his War Chest which is objectively fucking awesome.
The Kingfisher would kick Pinochet's ass. you should read his autobiography
Huey Long was famously a left wing populist. If you liked his program you have no reason to be a right winger. Pinochet was a fascist and a bastard.
@@friendlywobbly9903 I agree
@@friendlywobbly9903Both are very based.
Today everyone in Politics calls their Elcetion fund their War Chest. The guy had an impact for ages.
I think your line “Huey didn’t care about the Communism scare, because he thought if he gave no reasons for Communists to exist they’d go away” was very poignant.
Makes sense why revolt if you're living good and comfortable
@@giovannicervantes2053 Makes sense in theory but communists believe in the prophetic end-goal utopia. The sooner capitalism collapses, the better. Gives a roll of the dice to decide if this time will be the right version of communism. They don't want to wait for capitalism to collapse naturally, they want to make it collapse as fast as possible. Because they already believe it WILL collapse based on the prophecy. It's why you see them talk about how monopolies are the epitome of capitalistic greed and excess, but then simultaneously support policies that these monopolies lobby the government for that further locks down and manipulates the market to further their monopoly status and eliminate competition and family owned businesses. It's why they complain about how oppressive companies are but then switch sides completely and tell you why a private company should be able to violate human rights when it comes to free speech or X Y or Z, because it's supposed to paint the companies as evil and oppressive, and then retroactively give them clearance to behave that way. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
In short, it's very hard to appease them, because they already believe in a mystic promised land and are typically willing to give everything away for a chance to gamble with the dice again.
It would be harder to be indoctrinated into the cult in the first place, if things are good and fair. The problem is, the government and corporations love this cult. They keep giving them more power and money. The government and corporations use them as useful idiots, and said useful idiots believe they are getting closer and closer to the collapse of capitalism.
Now that I think about, they went about anti communism in a completely wrong direction.
@@seanturner1197 most of american history seems like the alt history where every thing went wrong in the most obnoxiously boring way possible
@@giovannicervantes2053
Especially the anticommunist thing. Wtf were they smoking?!
Were their advisors, in addition to that mass murderer Henry kissinger, also the mid century Germans they rescued when the third Reich collapsed?
Those Germans weren't far right because they actually murdered the right wing conservative politicians who helped them get into power. They were just as left wing as the bolsheviks and us policy makers probably lapped up their crap ideas.
Most based american politician
False but he’s a close second.
@@Drheims most based southern politician.
@@insertnamehere1258 Now that we can agree on.
@@Drheims yeah, especially cause he was far less racist than basically every other politician (yes, he didn't get the voting rights and didn't vote for an anti-lynching bill, but otherwise, he mostly helped them).
you gotta be racist to be based
Ive watched so much isorrowproductions that I immediately read his name as Huey Long Dong
When the masses love you, and the establishment despises you; you can officially claim to have the moral high ground.
nO you can’t
@@dekaw9138why
@@historiaprotempore938 moral high ground is based on actions
@@dekaw9138and all of his actions where corect
@@aureklanderson4498 you mean like having people assassinated and intimidating voters?
Gotta be the coolest southern politician in history.
nah that’s thurmond
@@crazysarge9765nah it’s Wallace
@@crazysarge9765 haha 😐
@@Planeman516Byrd.
@@silasmobhall9587Ikr he's wrong. Its Jefferson Davis.
This guy would be a great potential leader of an American faction in an hypothetical American civil war in an alt history scenario where…
Well for the sake of argument let’s just say the Kaiser won or something
This would hypothetically be a mod for a certain ww2 strategy game.. they may even possibly call it something unimaginative like 'kaisereich'
@@Franco18181hypothetically it would result in another mod for said WWII game. Said mod would have its core concept as “what if the triple entente won WWI?”
@@Franco18181 Hear me out... What if we made another version of this mod, with more wild leaders. Maybe something like, I dunno, 'Kaisereich Redux'?
@@cloakedhornets6515 I got a great idea... what if you also made a parody of this mod where people from that scenario tried to imagine ours, since the main defining feature of this one would be the nazis let's call it... "Fuhrerreich"!
@@moritamikamikara3879 I have one. What about a mod where no one won WW1 and Europe decided to take acid.
Why weep or slumber America
Land of brave and true
With castles and clothing and food for all
All belongs to you
Every man a King, every man a King
For you can be a millionaire
But there's something belonging to others
There's enough for all people to share
When it's sunny June and December too
Or in the Winter time or Spring
There'll be peace without end
Every neighbor a friend
With every man a King
God bless Huey Long, he did what needed to be done in a world that refused to do it for him. We need more people like him, especially today
For every good strong man there’s 10 terrible ones. If you wanna roll the dice on which one you get go ahead
@@KMn048too true
@@KMn048true, it’s quite surprising how similar Long’s and Trump’s respective rises to power were.
@@craigstephenson7676except for the fact that Trump did absolutely nothing for the common man he so often purported to fight for. Turned out to be nothing more than another corporate crony.
THEY’LL BE PEACE WITHOUT END ,WITH EVERY NEIGHBOR A FRIEND AND EVERYYYYY MANNNNN A KINGGG!!!
Least annoying kaiserreich fan.
@@Drheimsyou are cringe
@@Drheims I’ve never played hoi4 I just know about the song because it’s in a music playlist I use when I play Vic 2
@@screamingseal4805 Fair enough.
4:12 I really appreciate you clarifying that the Louisiana Establishment was ontologically evil. The fact that pre-Long Louisiana was a backwards territory somewhere between an economic colony and a plantation state that hadn’t moved on from the Antebellum Era is critical for understanding Huey Long and the Long Era in Louisiana - but it’s far too often glossed over in favor of focusing on Long’s actions specifically and ignoring the context they took place in. Whether Long was a democrat or dictator, pre-Long Louisiana was decidedly not a genuine democracy - it was an oligarchy where poor white and black participation in politics was systematically oppressed. [1] I’d personally make the argument that Long was a net-positive for Democracy in the long-term, because his machine destroyed said oligarchy and expanded popular participation in politics.
7:54 To the list of Long’s accomplishments, I’ll also add the literacy classes the state ran from 1929-1930. As you noted the state’s literacy rate for adults was absolutely dismal, and his program taught over 100,000 people reading, writing, and basic arithmetic, and due to these efforts the state was dragged out of being the most illiterate state in the union. What’s also notable is that the program was pretty targeted towards African-Americans - African-Americans had a far higher illiteracy rate than whites, and the program taught roughly 20,000 whites but over 80,000 African Americans. Now that’s *very* small change in racial politics by modern standards, especially when we’re talking about the 1930s South, but I do think it helps show that Long (who bragged about the programs benefits for African-Americans on at least one occasion) had a different attitude towards race compared to the average “southern populist” of the era (the Coleman Blease and Eugene Talmadge types). [2]
9:32 Funny you use the George Norris Wojak (Norrisjak?) there - one of the few men in the Senate Long had a positive relationship with was George Norris. They conferred together often in the senate and Norris was a man Long had genuinely high respect for. [3]
11:05 On the topic of whether Long actually wanted to kill that enemy of his - Long historians who’ve analyzed the claim seriously doubt it was real, and one anti-Long legislator said “No, I didn’t believe Battling Bozeman’s [the guy testifying against Long] story but what a wonderful witness he made.” At most a very drunk Long might have made a joke about killing the opponent, but Long wasn’t being earnest and the entire thing wasn’t serious despite what the anti-Long’s wanted to make it seem. It’s worth noting that later on, when someone suggested to Long that he kill the critic that ended up being kidnapped, Long was reportedly outraged and beat up the guy who suggested it. [4]
12:04 Very minor correction - Irby was most likely kidnapped not over his plan to reveal corruption (the type of charge about corruption Irby had was fairly common and ultimately trivial, both in the pre-Long era and during Long’s tenure), but rather that he’d reveal Long cheated on his wife with his secretary, which could seriously damage Long in the final days of an ongoing campaign. [5]
13:40 You could argue Long did have one notable (albeit unofficial) accomplishment in the Senate: the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act. The act expanded debt relief for bankrupt farmers, and Long was so critical in getting it passed that “his name could justly be added to the bill’s title”. [6]
15:00 - On the topic of a potential Long Presidency - I think the historian Alan Brinkley makes a good case that Long more likely than not would *not* have become President had he lived. Despite the large membership numbers, the Share Our Wealth clubs were fairly disorganized on the ground level and many of Long's followers were still supportive of Roosevelt and quite a few were indicating that they would pick FDR if they were forced to choose between the two. Of course anything is possible had he lived, just wanted to make a note of it. [7]
Overall a solid basic overview of his life, I dropped a like. I enjoyed your vid on Crump as well. If you haven't made a video on him, I'd recommend taking a look at James Michael Curley, another colorful machine boss.
Sources:
[1] “Sharing the Hate - The Louisiana Establishment and Huey Long” by Alex J. McManus, p. 169
[2] “Huey Long” by T. Harry Williams, p. 523, “The Development of Public School Adult Academic Education in Louisiana” by Edward Daniel Schumacherp, p. 20, “Huey Long - A Candid Biography” by Forrest Davis p. 240
[3] Williams, 559
[4] McManus, 67-68, Williams, 473
[5] Williams, 473
[6] Williams, 710-711
[7] “Voices of Protest - Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression” by Alan Brinkley, p. 182, 243-244
"ontologically evil" smh I'm not gonna read anymore of it everybody likes to illustrate Louisiana as this perpetually backwards evil place when we have never been that. We're just extra different culturally than the rest of the south
>had a different attitude towards race compared to the average “southern populist” of the era (the Coleman Blease and Eugene Talmadge types).
Lmao it's funny that the person you're referring to writes himself "He discussed the racial problem fairly frequently, and on these
occasions he talked like a typical white Southerner he was for segregation and white supremacy all the way. " (Williams p704).
Also Huey also accused Hoover of favoring "Negro domination," adding, "We believe this is
a white man's country and are not willing to turn it over to the Negroes."
While Hoover won the presidency, Louisiana gave Smith his largest
statewide majority. ("Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr" p.40)
In addition, Williams was later criticized by historian Glen Jeansonne argues the opposite, that Long was "more racist, less impartial, less principled and less different from other Louisiana politicians of his time than suggests historical Literature
If Long's record on encouraging black voting is hardly sterling, one might argue that at least his economic program helped blacks. But that aid was marginal and unintentional. He provided no pensions or employment benefits to white or black Louisianians-outsiders sometimes attribute Louisiana's welfare net to Huey but the credit actually belongs to his brother Earl, governor in the 1940s and 1950s. In fact, Huey opposed such programs and specifically argued that the money would be wasted on blacks. During the 1932 gubernatorial campaign he attacked a plan for old age pensions advocated by anti-Long candidate Dudley LeBlanc. He complained that LeBlanc's promise of $30 per month for those over 60 would cost $60,000,000. "And LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to negroes, too," Long said, "because don't you think he is going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost $20,000,000 a year to pay the negroes' pensions alone, and you white people will be working the year around to pay pensions to negroes."
When two black ministers attempted to attend a meeting of clergy who favored sharing the wealth, they were turned away, told they were not invited. Blacks were permitted to attend rallies so long as they remained around the fringes of the crowd and did not mingle with whites.
Education also remained Jim Crowed, and "New Orleans had not a single vocational or trade school that blacks could attend." Trade unionism among black people were discouraged, they were accommodated with the least priority in hospitals, and their presence was prohibited from parks and swimming pools; Long never challenged such racial barriers, rather indicating his support of segregationist policies in, at one point, condemning a plan in nearby Mississippi to establish a theater for blacks. In addition, the Long Administration never appointed any black individuals to notable public positions.
He specifically denied to Roy Wilkins that he planned any special economic or political program for blacks.
Jeansonne, Glen . Huey Long and Racism 1992, 273-275.
Dawg what? You’re cutting out the rest of that section from Willliams, where he goes on to *explicitly describe Long as a racial moderate* for his time and far better than other southern politicians on race. He describes how Long pretended to be a hardcore segregationist (which explains comments such as that on Hoover and the Mississippi theater) rhetorically when necessary to block accusations he was "soft" on race, but was quite willing to help blacks out under the table via his economic programs, such as his literacy program and reductions on taxes for the poor, and felt a genuine sympathy for the plight of poor African-Americans. Either read the sources you’re talking about before making wild claims about what they’re saying, or don’t manipulate and misquote them when it’s convenient. (Williams, p. 704-706)
Jeansonne is known to be a historian more interested in blackwashing Long more than providing a balanced view. McManus provides a good summary of Long historiography, and he gives this short but quite piercing assessment of Jeansonne’s work, which I’ll quote in full to get the point across:
"The last academic historian to do the Long grand tour, writing a series of scholarly articles and a short biography, was Jeansonne. An imitation o f Jeansonne’s approach would be to write that since Jeansonne did not footnote his biography, it does not meet the standard required of a scholarly publication. Jeansonne’s work was a sustained attack on Long’s personality. While Williams explored Long’s political personality in detail, he paid due attention to other individuals as part o f a wider examination o f events. Furthermore, Williams framed his analysis o f Long in a superb series of 1960 lectures entitled Romance and Realism in Southern Politics. In them, Williams analyzed the sweep of Southern history and juxtaposed Long’s economic realism (and the realism of Reconstruction and 1890’s populism) to the romantic sectionalism prevalent in Southern politics No scholar of Long has approached the quantity and quality of Williams’ contextualization. In the biography, Williams didn’t overindulge in amateur psychoanalysis any more than academic biographers usually will - and they usually will. On the other hand, Jeansonne went deeper into the personality hole and didn’t emerge; he collapsed nuance and evolution, making no distinction between the political and the private, or between Long the boy and Long the man, or between the Long of 1928 and the Long of 1934-5. The work was superficial; there was no texture - no coherent, logical line of thought - to his contempt for Long. Jeansonne wrote that Williams’ Huey Long was diminished by 'a failure to place him in a state or national context,' but Jeansonne’s work, including his articles, provided much less context than Williams’ - with Jeansonne we huddle around the fascinating but terrible fire of Long’s personality, mesmerized, while everything else is darkness." (McManus, 21-22)
Yes, Long did devolve into race-baiting on rare occasions and as I say in my original comment, he wasn’t great on race from a modern perspective. The comment about pensions, made during the climax of an already ugly campaign in 1932, was among the worst of it. BUT such sentiments were overall empirical and not representative of his overall views or style. For instance, in the senate he supported making pensions a federal project so African-Americans wouldn’t be discriminated against in southern states. The black press at the time literally praised him for race baiting far less than other southern politicians. That incident with the black ministers being turned away may have happened, but if it did, it was an anomaly and I doubt Long was directly involved - Long was quite interested in getting blacks to participate in Share-Our-Wealth clubs. Saying that Long “promised no special programs for blacks” is the usual twisting of words that create a technically true statement but don't provide the full picture that Jeansonne likes to employ. It ignores the fact that Long was promising that blacks would benefit from Share-Our-Wealth economic program as much as whites would - not perfect in a world with Jim Crow to be sure, but better than what other southern populists were saying. (Williams, p. 836, 705, 701, 706)
Again, from a modern perspective, Long was not great on race, and perhaps I should have made that clearer in my original comment. It’s fair enough to criticize him for doing nothing to challenge Jim Crow directly or enfranchise African-Americans. Few people from the 1930s were non-racist by today’s standards and even fewer explicitly challenged Jim Crow. *But for the time of the 1930s and for the place of the American South*, it's accurate to describe Long as a relativity moderate on racial issues, or “had a different attitude towards race compared to the average “southern populist” of the era (the Coleman Blease and Eugene Talmadges of the era)". He was never animated by racial prejudices like those men were. The appeal of his economic populism crossed racial lines, and African-American Louisianans of time were near universal in their praising of the man. I think this fact communicates well that, whatever his faults, for his time and place he deserves some credit. (Williams, 705) In this sense (on race specifically) I would make the comparison to FDR, who also didn't challenge Jim Crow and was not entirely free from racial prejudices, but who's economic programs and lack of constant bigotry inspired and gave hope to the black population which helped pave a path for future civil rights efforts. It was the Long faction in Louisiana politics who, in the 1950s, were defenders of black voting rights and desired compliance with federal civil rights laws. Burton Wheeler, who knew Long quite well, wrote in his memoirs that Long had “Far less racial prejudice in him than any other southerner in the senate.” I doubt he did that for no reason. (Wheeler, 282)
Sources:
Williams
McManus
“Yankee From the West” by Burton Wheeler
@@ShermanVanBuren Lmao bro.
I quoted him to the point that even Williams did not deny that he was a supporter of segregation, albeit with some indulgences.
As for the personalities, T. Harry Williams himself is accused portraying Huey Long as racially enlightened by the standards of his time.
Williams himself also often refers in his biography to an oral interview of people without documentary fixation. At that time, there were quite a few references in Glimson's report, including to Williams himself. In addition, the certificate about use the race aganist anti-Long candidate Dudley LeBlanc it is also found in the book "Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr". As you can see already been a steady stream of first-hand testimonies, studies, and academic literature already from Long's contemporaries that debunked the view of him as some sort of 'particularly enlightened on race for his time'.
About The Senator,
"Despite his progressive rhetoric, he joined his conservative colleagues from the South when he voted against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill."("Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr" )
You can quote me as saying I'll vote 100 per cent against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill that's brought up there in Washington," he said. "We just lynch an occasional [N-word]. No federal anti-lynching bill would help that." For comparison that President Franklin D. Roosevelt quite about this bill/.
"If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, [Southern Democrats] will block every bill I ask Congress to pass the keep America from collapsing. I just can’t take the risk."
So if we talk about racial moderation, it is primarily FDR, not Kingfish. Kingfish was a firm supporter of segregation, which can be seen even in this example. like his southern democrats friends. Also Long's famous Share Our Wealth program accepted black members, but only as "second-class constituents" and in regions "where it would not unduly antagonize whites." Long's chief lieutenants, Gerald L. K. Smith (the organizer of Share Our Wealth) and Leander Perez (his impeachment attorney), were outspoken white supremacists throughout their political careers.
And Lousiana...
In a speech a couple of nights later, LeBlanc called Huey and O.K. "nigger lovers." After LeBlanc promised a $30-a-month old-age
pension for every Louisianan over sixty, Huey claimed, "LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to Negroes, too, because don't you think he is
going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost twenty million dollars a year to pay the Negroes' pensions alone, and you white
people will be working the year around to pay the pensions to Negroes." ("Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr" )
"And LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to Negroes too, because don't you think he's going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost $20,000,000 a year to pay the Negroes' pensions alone, and you white people will be working the year around to pay those pensions to Negroes." - Huey P. Long
He provided no pensions or employment benefits to white or black Louisianans- outsiders sometimes attribute Louisiana's welfare net to Huey but the credit actually belongs to his brother Earl, governor in the 1940s and 1950s. In fact, Huey opposed such programs and specifically argued that the money would be wasted on blacks.
Disenfranchising blacks diluted the influence of conservative planters who controlled black votes. Without such disenfranchisement under the Constitution of 1898 Huey Long might have remained a railroad commissioner, if that be. ("Schott, "Class Conflict in Louisiana Voting Since 1877," 154; Dethloff, "The
Longs: Revolution or Populist Retrenchment," 404-40)
"Disenfranchisement of blacks weakened the Bourbon faction because under the corrupt system of the times blacks were counted as having voted for the
conservative Democratic candidates-regardless of how they actually voted or whether they voted at all. For example, the six parishes including East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Bossier and West Feliciana contained 3,779 registered white voters and 19,735 black voters. In the watershed election of 1896
they cast 16,000 votes for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Murphy J. Foster and only 139 for Populist-Republican candidate John N. Pharr. The Democrats carried twenty-three of the thirty parishes in which black voters outnumbered whites."
However, if there was any help (like Williams say: he could then do some things that breached the pattern of segregation), it did not undermine the superiority of the white race in Louisiana in any way , and was quite in the spirit of the Dixiecrats' "separate but equal" policy. (for there were primarily economic benefits, and not an attempt at desegregation)
Otherwise, if Long harbored some sort of genuine anti-racist convictions (he certainly did implement them with vast political powers invested in him within his own state), but he didn`t.
"His program helped blacks inadvertently, not deliberately, and he avoided helping them when he could do so without denying aid to his white constituents. His political machine so dominated Louisiana that it could have withstood such expression. On issues he deemed meaningful he did not lack courage, even audacity. He did not hesitate to take an unpopular stand which might lose votes when it suited his purposes. For example, his rejection of federal relief money for Louisiana from the Roosevelt administration stood to gain him little but revenge. It was spiteful, not politically practical, yet he did it. He could have done the same on the race issue had it mattered as much; it might have gained him stature nationwide and promoted his national ambitions. That he did not do so implies either that he did not care or that he cared less for blacks than for other priorities. Other Southern white politicians, faced with the same alternatives, have made more courageous choices: John M. Parker in Long's own time and state, Jimmy Carter, more recently. Parker took an unequivocal stand against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan, at a time when it was a formidable political force, while Long condemned it only after it became weak and discredited. Carter refused to join the White Citizens' Council at the peak of its popularity in Georgia, voted to desegregate his church, and challenged George Wallace in the Southern presidential primaries." (Jeansonne, Glen (1992). Huey Long and Racism. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 30, No. 3, p. 265.
TL;DR Despite popular mythology, Huey Long was not ahead of his time on racial issues and his racial policy was not much different from the "Separately but Equally" dixiecrats. After all, he's a southern Democrat, damn it! And hospitals and schools for Blacks were built in apartheid South Africa, and in white Rhodesia, where the regime was much milder than Long's in Louisiana, but this does not prevent our left-wing friends from writing Smith down as "Fascists"
P.s. Gerald L K Smith also write as "In him there was no trace of racial antipathy", but he is not an authority for you, because he "was evil Fascist".
man theres a lotta words in this comment thread and i’m to drunk to read
Fun little tidbit
Huey P Newton, one of the founders of the black panther party, was actually named after Huey Long. In his book, Revolutionary Suicide, Newton actually dedicates a paragraph to how his father admired Long for his ability to say one thing to get the support of Louisiana’s political class before doing the exact opposite. (I.e: using racist rhetoric to have black women work menial labor; but as Newton saw it, Long just enriched the black community by giving them inroads into the nursing profession and generally giving more job opportunities)
HE FINALLY DID IT! YES! HUEY IS THE KING, AND EVERY MAN'S A KING!
Good job mate, we've waited for so long, instant like
Same here I’m so glad he finally did it!
SHARE THE DONG
As a Louisianan, your pronunciation of Shreveport gave me heartburn.
I had a pause at what I heard it, you never hear it talked about by people outside the Gulf Coast
Hell yeah every man a king!
Every man a king!
So... Saul Goodman but he decided to be a politician.
*Theme song plays on an accordion*
Huey Longs death is essentially a canon event as spiderverse would put it, guy had so many fucking enemies, if one person did not kill him, someone else would, the only difference I can possibly see in any alternative timeline that only avoids his death, is delaying it till later and getting more of his goals done or somehow getting elected in 1940 (I don't see a 1936 campaign as remotely realistic in doing anything different besides maybe getting the Republican candidate in office) and maybe living long enough for the at that point inevitable Pearl Harbor attack causing enough of a rally effect to keep him alive.
At least till the war is over.
Huey Long, a truly principled populist hero, who took all means necessary to reform the quasi-feudal state of Louisiana. I wonder why he isn’t discussed more often?
Love the channel dude, great content and some really fascinating characters. Was really surprised to see you covered Mitch Werbell III. One of the spookiest and most overlooked characters in Cold War American history.
Because he is a leftist and suppressing successful leftist states is kind of the right's MO
Hes not talked about because he was a true leftist on a worldly scale during a time leftists were truly condemned (The cold war). And his policies were working alot more than other states. He simply would've proven Americas own anti leftist endeavors to be wrong. Hes not talked about simply because he was a factor in the cold war
@@bavingates2502 he was also very progressive in the end he made sure african Americans got educated properly literacy was very high for them during his time like really high
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle also the right to wealth act which allowed people who were denied by banks and corporations for jobs because of skin color to apply for (at the time it was $90 now it's $250) to be put in their account
This video was certainly a Long time coming, huh?
Love him or hate him, Huey did more tangible shit as a politician in his short life than most modern politicians do today after 80+ years on earth.
You can't get away with that pun.
His political machine was extremely impressive.
“Well, I’ll tell you now, so you know. The proper way to circumcise a klansman is to kick his sister in the chin.” -Huey Long
The only politician truly for the people
I've traveled a lot from the political left to the right and from the right to the left, in fact I still do, but no matter what point of view I look at him, Huey Long is always based.
So you're left?
@@chrisbosdijk7237
I am stuck in the limbo of the left and very social conservatism
@@Kijanek_ just skip the middle man that is politics and graduate to being based
@@Kijanek_ Literally me, fr fr.
(Though I finally settled down after a *long* search for myself as a mostly moderate centrist and social conservative as well, as the extremes of left and right are always wrong.)
@@chrisbosdijk7237 Well, I am not, and Huey P. Long is at least as based as Gustav Stresemann (basically the guy who stopped the Austrian painter during the beer hall Putsch).
I’ve been waiting a while for you to cover this guy thanks.
best historical youtuber by far
Use of memes and snarky commentary is *CHEF’S KISS*
He gave us free text books in school and 5 cents phone calls, and that lasted. For DECADES
Very informational while not being excruciatingly boring
I like how biographies of important historical figures have 1 of 2 college experiences.
1: become god among men and rank 1st-4th among the entire student body.
2: get drunk and have a gigantic gambling debt and drop out within the first year.
This man was a king, and we need the modern version of him as soon as possible.
I think Trump is the closest modern equivalent. Populist rhetoric, getting impeached, coup attempt, shitposting in office
Sanders was the modern version but you rejected him and now you got neoliberal hell.
@@craigstephenson7676 Comparing Trump to Long is blasphemy, I don't think that you can insult Huye anymore than that
@@monke3842agreed. One is an American Oligarch, the other is a Pious Attorney and Man of the People
One Word: Based
Facts.
Facts
A based man from a based county
A basis Parish we don't have Counties in Louisiana
@@obscurecelebritynooneremem6876 same thing
Yay *thank you*
The fact that they had to murder him shows how afraid they were of his maverick tactics and the fact that he was getting results.
He got murdered by the nephew of a judge who he gerrymandered out of a job.
They weren’t scared of him, they were tired of him.
@@xxslomegaxx9574 tired? Because his policies actually worked? Lmao even if the judge was gerrymandered so what? Gerry mandering to the right wing is just properly representing a district
Huey Long Dong 👑🔥 the Louisiana Legend…
As on affluent man once put: The is man is the final boss of Southern Hospitality
A good politician? In a sense where he's good at playing the machine and a decent person? What a legend!
literally just saw your last video about SocCred in Canada this morning and checked the comments to see the king fish himself was up next. Glad i didnt have to wait long
Yes, yes, yes! Finally a video about our main man Huey Long! Every man a King, every woman a Queen.
I'm actually gonna say based unironically and that's the power of Huey P Long
More like Huey Long P
If i could resurrect this guy I would, great video
btw please do John Brown next
if i could have resurrected a random person i didn't know, i would have done it anyway, so thats a bad example
@arsray7285 Well I recognize him, so it's a good example
Huey Long is definitely one of those people that you can see where the alternate timeline got cut off. Would love to see an episode on Dan "the Man" Sickles.
Even if he was a bit tyrannical I'd much have a competent albeit kinda authoritarian politician that do what he's supposed to rather than a "democracy" of career politicians that only serve themselves, as a Brazilian I know that feeling oh so darn well...
if you want to branch into UK politicians I would start with Enoch Powell
the man went to oxford, became a professor of greek at 23, then became the youngest brigadier in the army during ww2, went on to become an MP and then didn't become prime minister because of a bit of tomfoolery with the Prime Minister
Yeah but he did some of the racisms so people don't like to talk about him.
Okay this is epic, the Kingfish is truly a legend.
May I suggest Tom L. Johnson for your next person to discuss. Mans was a street car monopolist who read Henry George's book about how monopolism and landlords are bad, and dedicated the rest of his life to being among the most progressive mayor and congressman ever. Any relevancy Cleveland has today is because of him.
Redemption arc. And people say heydrich’s path in tno is unrealistic
Its the kaiserreich guy
Oh god their here.
Get Huey Long and Henry George in a meeting right damn now this nation needs it
How have I not heard of this absolute CHAD
The moment I saw you posted the machine politics, I know this was coming in no time
Looks like the Kingfish find another King amongst fish
Huey Long was that one guy that's actually a walking argument in favor of democracy.
Youre like my favorite TH-camr. I learn so much about history from you. The Jokes are amazing. Keep up the good work, never get discouraged. We're in your corner 100%
We need a Teddy Roosevelt video…
I have just found your channel and binged watched everything in 3 days, take that as a sign of how brilliant they are
Can't read Huey Long without adding Dong at the end.
Thanks, Slough man
Communists all think they can be a Long, but Long is such a specific and special figure, such a character might never come to being again.
What Long did was pretending to be hard on communists but still having some communistic policies.
American would enjoy communism it it weren’t called communism.
Great vid you should do a video on William Jennings Byran that would be cool. Fun fact Truman and Long were both huge fans and were inspired by him.
I’d like to see a Bryan episode as well. 😎👍
Huey Long Dong makes his debut on this channel!
8:59 That's a pretty LONG building Huey...
He didn’t deserve to die. I wish he got the Oval Office but i guess things happen.
I learned about him when I read "It can't happen here" back in the day and heard it was a commentary on Huey Long.
Who knows what would have happened if he became president.... I doubt he would shy away from anything really.
New Spartan upload, based!
Keep up the channel man! You got a good project here!
I approve of you placing Theodore Roosevelt as the #1 most based American
I feel like you should make a video on John Brown (the scourge of slavers).
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave
While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save
But though he lost his life while struggling for the slave
HIS SOOOUL IS MARCHING ON!!!
@@moritamikamikara3879 GLOOOOOOORY GLORY HALLELUJIAH!
John Brown was one of the coolest dudes out there.
There really are just a handful of people in US history which really represent what the US should be all about and he is one of them.,
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 yeah john brown is a rare example of a good religious extremist.
Brown was a murder and moron. Guy got wrecked by Chad Virginians like JEB Stuart and Lee
The mad lad finally did it. Every Man A King!
P.S. Could you do videos for Ernst Junger and Leon Degrelle?
Junger was the most based man to ever live. A Reactionary conservative Nazbol Anti Nazi Hard Drugs enthusiast a beloved war hero of the BOTH world wars accomplished author and he literally treated his service in world war 1 like he was on a europe tour
@@sherwingonsalves8821 I know. Junger was based as hell. 😎👍
Ernst Junger, Peter Kemp, and JRR Tolkien are three great men I would definitely call based.
Being from Louisiana and being highly progressive, those of us in new orleans stan long
"highly progressive"
When Huey Long discussed the racial issue, and in these cases he spoke like a typical Southern Democrat and accused Hoover of favoring "Negro domination," adding, “We believe this is a white man's country and are not willing to turn it over to the Negroes. Some Longists like, Gerald L. K. Smith (the organizer of Share Our Wealth) and Leander Perez (Huey impeachment attorney), were outspoken white supremacists throughout their political careers.
greatful Spartan is experimenting with videos in Long format, really nice to see their work evolve
The best politician in US history.
Huey long was definitely ahead of his time
Bush Family: we are the most Political Family
Kennedy Family: no we are
Long Family: hello
The greatest politician in American history, we need to reintroduce Longist policies and limit the worryingly fast pace of corporatism.
Okay this is very based...the sheer balls of this man!
Shame they didn't recognize the true value of such reforms.
@Spartan761 - History, you should do a video on Ian Paisley, he was a Protestant politician in Northern Ireland during the Troubles who once interrupted a speech by Pope John Paul II by calling him the Antichrist.
based?
Most sane Irish protestant
@@arsray7285 Based.
That’s it - I’m hanging an expensive, high quality official portrait of Huey along on my wall in his honor! 🇺🇸
without men like him america has fallen
oh my god it is the Alternative History HOI4 guy.
"Every Man a King" is one of those once in a century campaign slogan.
Every Man a King is such a good campaign slogan and he has likewise a crazy good life story. I thank Kaiserreich for letting us know about this what would otherwise be niche governor in backwards LA.
Also he really is just a Teddy Roosevelt who is just went crazy.
Most people in Louisiana actually like him and what he did, speaking as someone who is from Louisiana.
So huey long is Theodore rosovelt but a tad(perhaps more)crazy(still a good man though would be great to have people like him in this century)
HE FINALLY MADE IT
Does bad methods make a bad man?
No. Its context that makes a man.
If Huey lived in a society that was just, his unjust actions would be wrong.
But honor is only to shown to those not dishonorable. With Lousiana fucked as it was at the time? Unless he had a cabal of likeminded and able comrades, the only option was assymetric warfare as he used.
I salute thee, Huey Long
THE KING OF KINGS!
Very accurate 20 min bio. Love this
Based
You should cover Mishima Yukio. He was truly a silly little goofy guy
Louisiana WAS a shithole??
Louisiana IS still a shithole.
And will stay a shit hole for the rest of eternity until our state gets slowly consumed by our own beloved Gulf Coast, but well, it is a shit hole. It is a beautiful place with a lovely culture and amazing food, and incredibly nice people
"The second most based US politician besides Theodore Roosevelt"
I know he's super well-known but you need to cover T.R. He's the quintessential terachad
I love Huey Long
Every Man a King!
Why weep or slumber, America?
Land of brave and true!
With castles, and clothing, and food for all...
All belongs to you!
Every man a King! Every man a King!
For you can be a millionaire!
But there's something belonging to others...
There's enough for all people to share!
When in sunny June
Or November, too
Or in the winter-time
Or Spring!
There'll be peace without end!
Every neighbor a friend!
AND EVERY MAN A KING!!!
I fucking love huey long. I wish for a similar politician like him in today's day in age.
ALL HAIL THE KINGFISH!!
next video on the othertype of machine you talked about? :)
we can use some counterweight after so many dudes fufilling their promises
Winn county is Louisiana was based AF. Also, I've never been to new Jersey but I can confirm it completely sucks.
Learned about Huey Long since I live in LA. When your in middle school you dont really think about stuff people believe but as ive learned more about Huey he seems interesting as a potential President. Ive seen the bullet holes in the capital where he was shot!
Huey Long was the 20th century Plato and that’s as much of a problem as it was a good thing for his pre-existing constituents in the South. He was also a Dixiecrat and that is a major problem on its own. Protestants love “Separate but equal”.
I'd never heard of this guy before but he's definitely the most chad political figure of american history ive ever heard of bro was insanely based idc
Great video! Could you do one of colombian populist Jorge Eliecer Gaitan? He is pretty normal for the kind of people covered, but his assasination sparked a lowkey civil war in Colombia.
He seems like the closest thing we have ever had to a Julius Caesar.
So he's basically Orban if Orban was cool
I'd rather be ruled by a lion ordering an army of rats than an army of rats attempting to wrangle a lion.
Finally. The time has -cum- come