As I listened to Long fulminate against the “favored few” and champion the little man, Bernie Sanders was voicing similar themes on the campaign trail. Trump tapped this populism, too, with a style and tactics that Huey foreshadowed. A belligerent entertainer, Long mocked Washington “elites” and disparaged the character and appearance of other candidates, calling them “thieves, bugs, and lice,” or belittling them with nicknames like “Turkey Head” and “Old Buzzard Back.” He went after judges, told bodyguards to rough up the press, warned supporters to “watch out for the lying newspapers!,” and
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