Again, Jon Meacham's The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

Probably should just say, "Go buy & read Jon Meacham's The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels--and keep a highlighter close to hand, 'cause you're gonna need it, chile." Which you most certainly should do. But meanwhile...here are two more things that Mr. Meachem quoted, both of these reference Huey Long Trump:

"Frankly, we are afraid of him. He is unscrupulous beyond belief. He might say anything about me, something entirely untrue, but it would ruin me in my state....It's like challenging a buzz saw. It is safer for me and the rest of us to leave him alone."

& (even more frightening)

"He will pose as a misunderstood man, and to most listeners he will give their first information of what he has accomplished in Louisiana. He will be direct, picturesque, and amusing, a relief after the attenuated vagueness of most of the national speaking today. He will promise a nest egg of $5,000 for every deserving family in America, this to be the minimum of poverty in his brave new world. He rashly will undertake to put all the employables to work in a few months. He will assail President Roosevelt with a passion which may at first offend listeners, but in the end he might stir up opposition of a bitterness the President has not tasted in his life. Obviously, he cannot succeed while the country still has hopes of the success of the New Deal and trusts the President. Huey's chances depend on those sands of hope and trust running out. He is no menace if the President produces reform and recovery. But if in two years, even six, misery and fear are not abated in America the field is free to the same kind of promise-mongers who swept away Democratic leaders in Italy and Germany."

The latter is from Raymond Gram Swing,  writing in The Nation (January, 1935). But of course it could have been written this morning about Mr. Trump, couldn't it?

Anyway...read that book, brahs and tahs. It will actually make you feel a little better about all of this Trumpshit...because you'll see that (1) we can fight it and (2) we will survive it.