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Certain knowledgeable folks in LA can tell you, Huey was a threat to FDR’s leftist fascism. Long correctly identified the fedgov dipping into the litle man’s pocket to benefit the big man. The subject of decades of personal life experience for most folks (Southern and Northern) from the Dust Bowl forward.

And Long wasn't a Leftist???

I'll never understand some conservatives' love for certain Leftists whom the Left, for reasons I also cannot understand, also hate.

No, FRiend he was NOT a leftist. He was a demagogue white, non-labor union laborite populist, who also garnered the majority of Acadian, Creole, Black, Hispanics, and Irish Channel Irish (in New Orleans) votes, and the many poor white cotton/sugar farmer's as well— for the simple fact he was NOT one of FDR's liberal ULTRA leftist fascist (there is such a thing as a Leftist Fascist— see: Mark Levin's writings). FDR hated Jews, and especially Zionists.

About which, see : “In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and An American Family in Hitler's Berlin” Erik Larson— for context on FDR's first ambassadorial appointment to Germany (of a Southern liberal history professor from U. Chicago), the extensive rabid anti-semitism of the State Department (still true to this day— re: hitlery et cie and the rest of the button down boys and girls from hahhhhvahd) and the fascinating absolutely true story of his daughter (round heeled, screwing the first Gestapo chief and also a KGB assigned “lover”, the daughter became a Communist agent and eventually moved with rich Leftist jewish publisher husband to Czechoslovakia). Ignore the bs in the wikipedia about FDR being “pleased” with the ambassador- he wasn't- his buddy Ford, and Rockefellers wanted him removed. FDR's anti-semitism has been well covered up (refugees treatment, ignoring of hitler’s obvious psychoses, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_of_Beasts

The key ingredient for understanding the Leftist’s hate, in Huey's case was the Depression- and the Left’s desire for absolute power and control to stay in power- which FDR perpetuated (using mostly Herbert Hoover's equally oppressive centralized failure ideas) and, to maintain power- decided to get us into WWII to fight bigger European competitor National Socialists (with new “communist” Stalinist allies) who were just a little further right of the large communist party in Germany (and were not true fascists). An opinion shared by many (have to confess mostly Southern) historians. Perhaps that would help.

And, look up Judah Benjamin- US Senator from LA, Atty. General & Sec. of State & Sec. of War of the CSA and brilliant eventual English barrister and Queen's Counsel in Lancashire . A highly respected New Orleanian/born in Danish Virgin Islands. The wikipedia entry on him is fascinating- he was a polymath and brilliant man.