For someone who claimed to have broke with Coughlin, sure had similar views with regards fighting against Wall Street and isolationalism. Coughlin matched that good.[1][2] Identifying yourself as a radical doesn’t at all make you an anti-Coughlinite either. Huey Long, himself an identified radical,[3] worked with Coughlin on a scheme to challenge President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.[4][5] Both Long and Coughlin have even considered as being among the “radical opposition to the New Deal.”[6] Coughlin’s stooge Long, who was gunned down in 1935, even promoted the idea that Wall Street was the creator of wars.[7] Tom Hayden was really Long’s successor.
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002088178102000126?journalCode=isqa
- https://www.ssa.gov/history/fcspeech.html
- https://www.ssa.gov/history/hlong1.html
- https://www.nationalbook.org/books/voices-of-protest-huey-long-father-coughlin-and-the-great-depression/
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/2022/03/09/ep-6-social-justice/
- https://www.gcsehistory.com/faq/radicalopposition.html
- https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Huey_Long
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