Another United States politician, Lyndon LaRouche, has attempted an entryist strategy in the Democratic Party since 1980, but with little success.

In 1978, LaRouche began a vigorous USLP campaign for the presidency in 1980, targeting farmers, small businessmen and Teamsters Union members in the Heartland states.

LaRouche ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States seven times, beginning in 1980.

A detailed " conspiracy theory " first appeared in December 1980 in a magazine run by Lyndon LaRouche, with a follow-up article in Executive Intelligence Review in September 1983.

LaRouche said in 1980 that the British are more evil than Hitler, and that British intelligence is involved in global brainwashing and drug dealing.

In 1980, a political unknown named Lyndon LaRouche entered the New Hampshire Democratic Primary and polled 2 % of the vote, coming in fourth place.

The operation ended when police arrested several of LaRouche's followers ; there were no convictions, and LaRouche maintained they had acted in self-defense.

In a dramatic public confrontation at a forum on New York's Upper West Side and in a series of mimeographed broadsides, they accused Newman of running a psychotherapy cult and of encouraging his followers to provide the FBI with false information on a dissident member of the former CFC, Jim Retherford, who had denounced Newman's alliance with LaRouche.

The party was founded in 1986 by Senator Adlai Stevenson III in reaction to the Democratic Party's nomination of two followers of Lyndon LaRouche in the race for high state offices.

There are a number of explanations as to how the LaRouche followers became nominees.

LaRouche maintains that the population voted for his followers to take the party back from elitist bankers.

In the 1986 campaign for Governor, in a fluke, two followers of Lyndon LaRouche won the Democratic Party primary nominations for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State.

LaRouche and his followers became increasingly convinced that the fate of the world rested with their group and their great leader.

The campaign platforms of LaRouche and his followers have included these elements:

LaRouche and his followers use Neoplatonism as the basis for an economic model that posits " the absolute necessity of progress ".

" Left and right are false distinctions for LaRouche ; what matters is the Platonic versus Aristotelian outlook, a position that has led LaRouche to form relationships with groups as disparate as farmers, nuclear engineers, Black Muslims, Teamsters, pro-lifers, and followers of the Ku Klux Klan — even though LaRouche counts the Klan itself among his foes.

These organizations served as the platforms for presidential campaigns by LaRouche starting in 1976, and by his followers in scores of local races.

Several witnesses were LaRouche followers who testified under immunity from prosecution.

There was also an uneasy relationship with explicitly antisemitic groups who charged that the war was being waged on behalf of Israel ; with the few, small right-wing anti-war groups ; and with certain political fringe groups, such as the followers of Lyndon LaRouche.

The Democratic National Committee asserted that LaRouche is not a Democrat, but the U. S. electoral system made it impossible for the party to prevent LaRouche followers entering Democratic primaries.

After LaRouche followers had won the Democratic nominations for both Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State, Stevenson refused to run as the Democratic standard-bearer, and formed the Solidarity Party.

The Schiller Institute is an international political and economic think tank, one of the primary organizations of the LaRouche movement, with headquarters in Germany and the United States, and supporters in Australia, Canada, Russia, and South America, among others, according to its website.

According to Chip Berlet and Dennis King, LaRouche has always been stridently anti-British and has included Queen Elizabeth II, the British Royal Family, and others, in his list of conspirators who are said to control the world's political economy and the international drug trade.

The LaRouche defense argued that Ibykus Farm was a " safehouse " needed for the security of LaRouche and others.

The CEC website advocates a number of positions of the worldwide LaRouche movement, including that the Port Arthur massacre, in which Martin Bryant murdered 35 people and injured 37 others, was instigated by mental health institute the Tavistock Institute on the orders of the British Royal Family.

After the conference, Duggan decided to stay on with about 50 others for a LaRouche youth cadre school at a youth hostel in Wiesbaden.

After the media began to pay attention, LaRouche was promptly labeled an ultraconservative Democrat by some, and a nut by others, primarily due to the overlap of some of his views with those of the Reagan administration.

Rees also criticized Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement saying the organization has " taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party ," and a cult-like " blind obedience.

LaRouche was influenced by his readings of Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital and Karl Marx's Capital developing his own " theory of reindustralization ", saying that the West would attempt to industrialize the Third World, particularly India, and attempt to solve the economic crisis both by developing new markets in the Third World and using its cheap and surplus labor to increase profits and minimize costs ( see neocolonialism.

While surrounded, LaRouche sent a telegram to President Ronald Reagan saying that an attempt to arrest him " would be an attempt to kill me.

LaRouche and the other defendants appealed that effort on October 5, 1988, saying that a new trial would create double jeopardy.

In Bakker's view, " to say LaRouche was a little paranoid would be like saying that the Titanic had a little leak.

The U. S. government responded by saying that LaRouche had been given due process under the laws of the United States.

White complains about a terrible pain in his arm, and LaRouche can be heard saying, " That's not real.

In November 2006, LaRouche himself issued a statement saying the allegations were a hoax stemming from a campaign orchestrated by Dick Cheney, then the Vice-President of the United States, and Cheney's wife.

Kwiatkowski responded by saying, among other points, that she had never supported or dealt with LaRouche.

For six months, LaRouche worked with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote that LaRouche had a " gargantuan ego ," and " a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth.

U. S. sources told the Washington Post in 1985 that the LaRouche organization had assembled a worldwide network of government and military contacts, and that his researchers sometimes supplied information to government officials.

Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's deputy director in 1981 and 1982, said LaRouche and his wife had visited him offering information about the West German Green Party, and a CIA spokesman said LaRouche met Deputy Director John McMahon in 1983 to discuss one of LaRouche's trips overseas.

LaRouche wrote in his 1987 autobiography that violent altercations had begun in 1969 between his NCLC members and several New Left groups when Mark Rudd's faction began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University.

A two-part article in The New York Times in 1979 by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery alleged that LaRouche had turned it — at that point with 1, 000 members in 37 offices in North America, and 26 in Europe and Latin America — into an extreme-right, anti-Semitic organization, despite the presence of Jewish members.

LaRouche denied the newspaper's charges, and said he had filed a $ 100 million libel suit ; his press secretary said the articles were intended to " set up a credible climate for an assassination hit.

LaRouche alleged that Gilbert and the FSP publishing house, which had issued a pamphlet by Gilbert critical of LaRouche's ideology and political history were in violation of campaign finance laws.

On March 5, 1982, Berg tried to interview Ellen Kaplan, a member of the LaRouche movement, about an incident that had happened on February 7, 1982 at the Newark International Airport.

The reason Fred Newman and his colleagues provided for leaving the NCLC was a disagreement between LaRouche and Newman over what to do with the National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization ( NUWRO ), which the LaRouchians had founded the previous year ( Newman wanted to build it up, while LaRouche wanted to concentrate on more rarefied issues ).

In fact, however, the Communist Party, Workers World Party, the Socialist Workers Party and the independent " Movement " left had all condemned the LaRouche organization as fascistic during Operation Mop Up.

Newman then fulsomely praised LaRouche in the introduction to " Power and Authority " ( 1974 ) published almost one year after most of the Left had denounced LaRouche's move to the Right.

Xinhua News Agency, China's state media agency, reported that economist, Executive Intelligence Review founder, and Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche had issued a statement in June 1999 to refute the allegations of espionage.

In 1974 the Wisconsin branch of the Labor Party took out a newspaper advertisement announcing that it had filed for an injunction to prevent the CIA, FBI, and the New York Police Department from arresting Lyndon LaRouche ( then known as Lyn Marcus ) or anyone involved in the movement's kidnapping of Christopher White, who had married LaRouche's former common-law wife.

According to detailed descriptions by LaRouche, White had been brainwashed by the CIA and KGB to kill him.

The USLP vice-presidential candidate, Khushro Ghandhi, campaigned in June 1979 and predicted victory based on support from the Teamsters ( a faction of the union had ties to LaRouche ).

By late summer of 1979 the NCLC and LaRouche had decided to join the Democratic Party so that LaRouche could run for that party's presidential nomination, and the US Labor Party was disbanded.

The LaRouche organization believed Frankhouser to be a federal agent who had been assigned to infiltrate right-wing and left-wing groups, and that he had evidence that these groups were actually being manipulated or controlled by the FBI and other agencies.