Windrip

The dictator Windrip is modelled less on Adolph Hitler than on Louisiana demagogue Huey Long (though the name "Windrip" is also a scatalogical spoof on protofascist Gerald B. Winrod), while the demagogic priest, Bishop Prang, is clearly taken from Father Coughlin.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Windrip is a good old boy from Ohio, a common man, both in the sense of being an "ordinary" American, a man of the people, and being "common" in the snobbish eyes of the elite.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.

Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know 2010

Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.

Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know 2010

Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.

Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know 2010

Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.

Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know 2010

As Windrip boasts: All these degenerate European uniforms of tyranny!

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

His president, Berzelius ( "Buzz") Windrip, is a ruthless phony with the "earthy sense of humor of a Mark Twain"; one of the few who dare oppose him openly is a rural ­newspaper editor who is forced to go on the run.

Books on Political Conspiracy Joseph Finder 2009

The politician "'Buzz Windrip"'runs his campaign on family values, the flag, and patriotism.

The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here" 2009

But, in fact, it has and in a manner that closely resembles the fictional rise to power of one "Buzz" Windrip.

Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State: Part I, Police States Begin With False Flag Attacks 2008