Every Man a Slave? Huey Long as a Model for the Wrong Kind of Populism

10/01/2026 William L. Anderson

J. D. Vance raised a few eyebrows invoking Huey Long as a populist. The problem is that the populist from people like Long and Bernie Sanders is that it is based on confiscation and destruction of wealth and property. Murray Rothbard proposed a real populism.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/every-man-slave-huey-long-model-wrong-kind-populism

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Every Man a Slave? Huey Long as a Model for the Wrong Kind of Populism