Episode 161: The Kingfish vs. Oligarchs - Huey Long’s War for the Working Class

He paved roads, blew up tolls, handed kids free textbooks, and told the oil barons to get lost. Huey “The Kingfish” Long wasn’t just a politician; he was a one-man jailbreak for Louisiana’s poor. In the middle of the Great Depression, he turned the state into a living New Deal before the New Deal: hospitals for the sick, bridges for the forgotten, and a promise bold enough to make millionaires…