huey long president

Democratic Senator from Louisiana Huey Pierce Long Jr. was considered many thing in his life, but authoritarian and demagogue fits him best with a syncretic ideology. His ideas were generally to the far left of the political spectrum with nothing to offer to the right outside of isolationism and...

1932: The Democrats nominate an uber-conservative(Ritchie?) who proceeds to combat the Great Depression using spending cuts and tax hikes. Needless to say, this is a disaster and the midterms are a bloodbath. 1936: Yet, similarly to Hoover, Ritchie is re-nominated through patronage and a...

What if Huey Long escape assassination while Roosevelt failed to avoid his assassination? What if Chamberlain advised the king to pick Lord Halifax instead Churchill become the Prime Minister? What if Trotsky win over Stalin in the power struggle of USSR?

What if FDR was assassinated February 15, 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara and Huey long survives his assassination attempt on September 8, 1935 Carl Weiss miss Huey long and After that he runs for president in 1936 gets nominated and defeats his republican challenger in a landslide victory what would a...

I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan." — Huey Long...

A Perfect Democracy - - or The World That Huey Made - A perfect democracy can come close to looking like a dictatorship, a democracy in which the people are so satisfied they have no complaint. - Huey Long Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 - March 15, 1960), known also by the...

So ITTL lets just assume FDR is removed from the picture and Huey Long runs for President (he doesn't get assassinated) and choose Olson as his running mate (He doesn't get cancer In this timeline) could they win, and if they did what would the country look like during there regime, assuming...