โ€˜A native of the Texas Hill Country, he settled in Dallas, the center of ultra-right-wing advocacy, much of it funded by H.L. Hunt, the billionaire oil tycoon. Hunt, who believed that he belonged to a genetically superior strain of humanity and that voting rights should be apportioned by wealth, told [Maj. Gen. Edwin] Walker there was a โ€œlegion of potential followers who would welcome you as a new type of Commander in Chief.โ€โ€™

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The Wild Road Trip That Launched the Populist Conservative Movement

How a fiery preacher and a maverick Army general took the nation by storm #Smithsonian September 2018

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wild-road-trip-rallied-conservatives-180970033/

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