Today's Huey Long

Many years ago the Nobel Prize winning novelist Sinclair Lewis warned us that when fascism came to America it would not arrive wearing a swaztika and marching a goose-step in jack boots. It would arrive looking like a good ole boy, speaking with a twang and smiling a friendly down home smile. He meant Huey Long. His warning could apply to George W. Bush. Such a man would stop at nothing to gain power, and having gained it, do everything to consolodate his power.

[Sherman Yellen, "Bush and the Grassy Knoll", The Huffington Post, 4 May 2006.]

Posted on May 4, 2006 at 22.25 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book

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