I thought social credit was more of a mixed bag, with both left and right aspects? Or at least left and right advocates.
Under William Aberhart in Depresion-era Alberta, they were something like Huey Long, but with more thought-out economic theories, and a premillenial evangelical Christian worldview. After Aberhart died in the 1940s, Ernest Manning purged the radical economic faction(who were also the most anti-semitic faction), and made the party into basically a garden-variety pro-business conservative party which stayed in power until the early 70s by spending oil money on schools and hospitals. They finally got voted out just because people were sick of their hayseed image.
Social Credit in British Columbia was like Manning Social Credit(pro-business, no radical economics), but in Quebec they continued with the radical anti-banking stuff, and barely disguised anti-semitism, winning their last federal seats in that province in 1979.
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