The Conspiratorial Business Plot of 1933
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In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR's economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.

In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•1 year ago

    And they would have gotten away with it too if Smedley Butler hadn’t blown the whistle after they approached him to lead the coup’s forces.

    • mohKohn
      9•1 year ago

      Going to take a moment to plug a great biography of him I read, Gangsters of Capitalism Butler was a very complicated person, much like the rest of the Quakers.

      I do feel like saying they would’ve gotten away with it is perhaps a tad overstating their chances