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2 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The appeal of Huey Long is not exactly his economics but his willingness to confront a corrupt political establishment with his own political machine long after it had ceased to serve people. Conservatives naturally miss this because they're still concerned with playing nice
"But his left wing economics!" scream the people representing a movement of uninterrupted failure for the last 30-40 years
Huey Long used his corrupt political machine to help people whereas myself, the principled conservative, prefer it when corrupt political machines help defense contractors and lie to me about it
I prefer it when my politicians only help themselves and lie to me about it and instead tell me about bootstraps and quote Reagan or something

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