DEWEY JACKSON SHORT
(Dewey Short)
Short was a "Tea Party Republican" long before there was a Tea Party. He was a virulent opponent of FDR, the New Deal, and the Roosevelt Brain Trust. The anti intellectualism was even then not new. Long before Donald Trump and the Tea Party of 2016, there were conservatives who constantly attacked the unelected government appointees and Presidenial Advisors.
One-liner, soundbytes, have been good political oratory long before TV
MacArthur had been fired for disobeying the orders of his superior Army Officers, The Secretary of Defense and President Harry S Truman. However, he had many supporters among the right wing of the Republican Party. Short was obviously one of them.
Dewey Jackson Short was a Republican U.S. Representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district for 12 terms and a staunch opponent of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.