INDIANAPOLIS — Since Donald Trump descended the escalator in 2015 to kick off this political era, I've sought a historic parallel, a similar personality who captured the hearts and minds of many Hoosiers.

That politician is David C. Stephenson, who in two short years after he showed up in Evansville in 1922 from the Southern Plains, created a shadow government in the 1924 election. Many of us first read about D.C. Stephenson in John Bartlow Martin's 1949 book "

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