# Why only one Trump?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [October 25, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213 "2024-10-25T18:00:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Everlong88](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/everlong88/32/17800_2.png) [@Everlong88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Everlong88)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213/41 "2024-10-26T22:00:04Z")

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Wasn’t Huey Long a sort of populist, Trump-like figure? I really only know him reading about his assassination. But I think he was a sort of bombastic blowhard and I believe had designs on becoming president.

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**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213/42 "2024-10-26T23:24:16Z")

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Long was a populist, but not in the manner that Trump is pretending to be. Long was critical of the New Deal because he thought it didn’t go far enough. He advocated for a wealth tax and wealth re-distribution.

Long was definitely controversial, though. There are some analogues to Trump in how he operated. Of course, Long never became President, so a full comparison is impossible.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213/43 "2024-10-26T23:41:07Z")

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Is it conceivable that there might be calls for refusing to accept a _Trump_ win? If enough people were really convinced that Trump was going to pull a Hitler-1933 if he was allowed to be inaugurated, or if people believed on one theory or another that Trump was ineligible to take office?

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213/44 "2024-10-26T23:46:09Z")

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No, the Democrats are doormats. They’d let Trump take power even if they genuinely believed the result would be a fascist dictatorship and their own deaths. They believe too much in “normalcy” and “following the rules” to do anything else.

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**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-one-trump/1009213/45 "2024-10-27T19:14:46Z")

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**The Business Plot (aka the Wall Street Putsch or the White House Putsch)**

In 1934, retired General Smedley Butler testified before a House of Representatives committee that in the previous year a group of wealthy industrialists had been planning a coup to replace FDR with a military dictator and had offered him the position, which he declined.

Historians now agree that while there was some discussion of such a plot, we cannot determine how close the plotters were to actually executing it.

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