Populism, like nationalism, is neither inherently right nor left. Those are decided by economic policy and actual government structure. Controlled economies, massive totalitarian central government socialist policies like wealth redistribution (theft) - that's leftist.
Huey long was a radical leftist, and evil, though I don't need to repeat myself.
Odd how one of the "muh jews" people is crying about him getting killed. Very interesting. Almost like there's a pattern we should notice...
Yeah. I hadn't heard of this before, but on reading about Long
And that "share our wealth" program (as if the name isn't bad enough) included gems such as maximum income caps, free education, UBI, and more.
Dude sounds like a raging commie, even if he was an anti-interventionist.
(Edit - Plus, there's a big difference between an anti-interventionist in 1935 and in 1939/1940)
It's populism.
Populism, like nationalism, is neither inherently right nor left. Those are decided by economic policy and actual government structure. Controlled economies, massive totalitarian central government socialist policies like wealth redistribution (theft) - that's leftist.
Is taking $10 from the undeserved wealth of a scurrilous multi-billionaire so that a deserving poor man doesn't starve 'theft'?