{"id":100325,"date":"2026-08-23T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/vance-hails-great-southern-populist-huey-long-every-man-a-king-was-the-goal-of-his-political-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:42:01","slug":"vance-hails-great-southern-populist-huey-long-every-man-a-king-was-the-goal-of-his-political-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/vance-hails-great-southern-populist-huey-long-every-man-a-king-was-the-goal-of-his-political-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Hails &#8220;Great Southern Populist&#8221; Huey Long: &#8220;Every Man A King&#8221; Was The Goal Of His Political Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Vice President J.D. Vance invoked Huey Long while speaking at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant in Ohio, saying the Trump administration&#8217;s border crackdown has made Americans safer.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: The great southern populist, probably most of you in the room don&#8217;t know who I&#8217;m talking about, but he&#8217;s an interesting guy, kind of a crazy guy. His name was Huey Long, and he once said, every man a king was the goal of his political program, but no man is a king if their castle is under siege by criminals. No man is a king if they can&#8217;t take their family out to dinner without being mugged or having their car jacked.  And of course, ending the Biden border invasion was a big part of why we have changed that over the last 18 months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/22\/vance_hails_great_southern_populist_huey_long_every_man_a_king_was_the_goal_of_his_political_program.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President J.D. Vance invoked Huey Long while speaking at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant in Ohio, saying the Trump administration&#8217;s border crackdown has made Americans safer. VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: The great southern populist, probably most of you in the room don&#8217;t know who I&#8217;m talking about, but he&#8217;s an interesting guy, kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1279,2492,462,4071,30339,481,850,4525,24320,424,2119,22219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}