"Throughout American history, he says, populist voters have felt 'a sense of a loss of control about what was going on in their society. Things were happening and things were changing, and the change was unsettling, but they couldn't do anything about it. It was almost like they were being acted on from above.' That feeling has engendered the rise of parties and leaders, conservative or progressive, that promise to fight the system on behalf of average Americans."
Annika Neklason at The Atlantic compares Donald Trump to Huey Long.
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