Father Coughlin, Hate Radio, and Trump

By Craine, Detroit — Photo by Craine, Detroit, Via Library of Congress website LC-USZ62–38494; cph 3a38845 ; cropped and converted from TIFF to .jpg before uploading, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6637122

I still remember the day one of my professors introduced me to Father Charles Coughlin. It was in the early 1990s after Bill Clinton took over the Presidency. We were drinking bad cafeteria college coffee, at an outside table on campus. It was a cold November day, and we were discussing Michelle Foucault and deconstruction. We could not be engaged in a more arcane subject when we heard the voice of Rush Limbaugh come from…