Our violent democracy

Chasing the under-told story of America’s demagogues

Huey Long was featured on the April, 1935 cover of TIME magazine. The Trump version is a fake that Trump commissioned to hang in one of his golf course clubhouses.

In the early evening of Sept. 8, 1935, a disgruntled and agitated son of a political rival named Carl Weiss entered the basement of the Louisiana Capitol in Baton Rouge and fired a single shot into the belly of Louisiana’s “Kingfish,” Huey P. Long, killing him and snuffing out his populist political romp toward the U.S. Presidency. Long had just ascende…