Huey P Long, the authoritarian, populist governor of Louisiana in the 1920/30s, nearly made it to the White House.

He’s the real-life individual on whom Robert Penn Warren based his Pulitzer-winning novel All The Kings Men. Willie Stark, Penn Warren’s central character, was fatally shot – just like Long.

After Long’s murder, Life magazine wrote that “he had all the traits of the dissembling demagogue”.

Once asked by a journalist “Do you think we will ever have fascism in America?”, the wily governor replied: “Sure, but we will call it anti-fascism.”

Let’s learn the lessons of history as Trump brings US to brink of fascism

The road to the Irish presidency is not an easy one for northerners

Welcome to America in 2025, as an authoritarian and dissembling president brings his country to the brink of fascism. And let’s not pretend otherwise.

Diplomacy may require prime ministers, taoisigh and even kings to navigate around the ego of Trump the disruptor and corruptor, but........

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