Huey Long was a man of the left, more extreme than FDR, Democratic hero, whom he supported in 1932 but against whom he competed in 1936.
Buzz Windrip was Huey Long with significant authoritarian themes added in, seasoned with American patriotism, to the point of open and express rejection of the Constitution, of separation of powers, of the core idea of an executive and a government bound by laws.
At the head quote of chapter 5, he sounds like Trump attacking the press.
Reading It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis, 1935, again.
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