America's Fascist Past
As the major news networks declared an Obama victory the night of Nov. 6, 2012, the notorious billionaire and now White House mob boss took to Twitter to register his outrage over the result. “We should have a revolution in this country!” Trump thundered. “We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty!” he tweeted moments later. While the outbursts were roundly mocked in the days following the vote, Trump isn’t the only American one-percenter to have advocated the overthrow of a democratically-elected president. In the early 1930s, a coalition of America’s wealthiest industrial magnates allegedly hatched a scheme to topple the Roosevelt Administration and replace it with a fascist dictatorship. The plan, dubbed “The Business Plot” in the modern day, was dreamed up by a cabal of rich tycoons and Wall Street big shots from several of the largest corporations including Chase Bank, Maxwell House, General Motors, Goodyear, Standard Oil, DuPont,