• 9:27 - 12:57
Shamangineer | Fascism: The History, The Psychology, & The Re-emergence
Smedley Butler and the 1933 Business Plot
During the Great Depression, a group of Wall Street interests allegedly attempted to foment a fascist coup against Franklin D. Roosevelt known as the Business Plot. Gerald McGuire approached Major General Smedley Butler to lead an army of 500,000 veterans, modeled after European "brown shirts," to take over Washington D.C. The plotters sought to leverage veteran anger over unpaid bonuses and the "New Deal" policies they feared would erode their financial power.