U.S. senator Huey Long of Louisiana. The slogan of Long’s “Share Our Wealth” movement was “Every Man a King (But No One Wears a Crown).” Lewis revised the slogan in It Can’t Happen Here: “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” Like Senator Berzelius (“Buzz”) Windrip in It Can’t Happen Here, Long proposed to limit individual fortunes and inheritances through taxation, to double the amount of money in circulation to facilitate credit, and to provide each family with a guaranteed annual income of upward of four thousand dollars.
