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'''Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.''' (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was a political [[activist]] and perennial [[Democratic]] candidate for [[President of the United States]]. Overall, he was considered a [[left-wing]]er, but he also took some positions considered right-wing later in his life.
'''Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.''' (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was a political [[activist]] and perennial [[Democratic]] candidate for [[President of the United States]]. Overall, he was considered a [[left-wing]]er, but he also took some positions considered right-wing later in his life.
"LaRouche has had frequent encounters with the law and has voiced his blatant [[anti-Semitism]]."<ref>[https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/lyndon-larouche-and-new-american-fascism Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism]</ref>
Critics see him as a [[fascist]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20090831042037/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag]. Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman
March 10th, 1989</ref> He certainly had strange and nonsensical theories, ideas assoviated with him/his movement have been used destructively.
==Presidential campaigns==
==Presidential campaigns==
He ran in 1976 as the candidate of the U.S. Labor Party. In 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000 he entered (and lost) the [[Democratic Party]] primary, then ran as an [[independent candidate]] in the general election. In 2004 he again entered the Democratic primary, but did not run as an independent and endorsed [[John Kerry]] in the general election. The Democratic Party does not recognize LaRouche as a Democratic candidate{{fact}} and does not grant credentials to his delegates, although he typically wins a handful of delegates in some state primaries.{{fact}} In the 1980 election season, he participated in [[New Hampshire]] Democratic primary debates. His presidential campaigns were notorious in the 1980, 1984, and 1988 elections for his use of FDR's "economic royalist" rhetoric and running half-hour paid advertisements on [[television]] forecasting imminent economic collapse unless he was elected and his [[radical]] [[Socialist]] agenda enacted.
He ran in 1976 as the candidate of the U.S. Labor Party. In 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000 he entered (and lost) the [[Democratic Party]] primary, then ran as an [[independent candidate]] in the general election. In 2004 he again entered the Democratic primary, but did not run as an independent and endorsed [[John Kerry]] in the general election. The Democratic Party does not recognize LaRouche as a Democratic candidate{{fact}} and does not grant credentials to his delegates, although he typically wins a handful of delegates in some state primaries.{{fact}} In the 1980 election season, he participated in [[New Hampshire]] Democratic primary debates. His presidential campaigns were notorious in the 1980, 1984, and 1988 elections for his use of FDR's "economic royalist" rhetoric and running half-hour paid advertisements on [[television]] forecasting imminent economic collapse unless he was elected and his [[radical]] [[Socialist]] agenda enacted.