He made about $60 million as a trial lawyer, and lost $30 million to fraud and the games Wall Street played, so he is definitely not a friend of the financial industry. A lot of this is courtroom theater, but he is really, personally pissed off about that missing $30 million, and he intends to spread his pain to the corporations.

He knows what the rules are and will probably avoid breaking any, but he will certainly bend the hell out of them when it helps his case.

The Republicans began their long public suicide in the mid 1960s when they accepted the Dixiecrats and embraced the “Southern Strategy”. Like the modern CEOs they made a decision based on short-term gains, rather than looking at the long-term consequences. After World War I the returning black veterans sparked a voter registration drive in the South, and they were trying to register to vote as Republicans. The Republican Party offered no assistance, so the blacks gave up on them, and when the push started again after World War II, they registered for the Party of FDR.

Heywood got stuck in moderation because the name and e-mail must agree to avoid moderation.