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KWills wrote
Citing Infowars means it's not true. Alex Jones admitted he is an entertainer, not news broadcaster.
So? Ronald Reagan was an actor/entertainer. Politics came later.
Sure, no one would see Alex Jones as a viable political candidate -- for
now.
Huey Long was regarded as a bad joke whom no one took seriously -- until the Depression hit. Just imagine what could have been had Franklin Roosevelt succumbed to his polio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LX2p8-o1Xw
As the Depression worsened, Long definitely became a force to be reckoned
with. There's no telling how different history would be today had an assassin's bullet not ended his career. Donald Trump was regarded as a
clown, too, but Trump preached what many people felt but didn't DARE express publicly in this age of Political Correctness.
By the time FDR won the 1932 election, things had gotten so bad that, aside from historians, few people today realize just how close the U.S. came to becoming a police state. Many prominent economists of the time honestly believed that capitalism had failed and socialism was the only way to go...
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