During the Great Depression, there were two stand-out figures in American society that provided heavy arguments of critique and criticism for the American government and leadership. These two figures did not work together, but together they provided a loud enough voice to draw in the attention of the American citizens with their flamboyant personalities. Huey P. Long and Father Charles Coughlin were big forces and challenges to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal programs. Alan Brinkley even described both figures, Long and Coughlin, as “the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era” (Brinkley ix). Huey P. Long and Father Coughlin had very similar ideologies that they presented to the American
