The Fascist Plot To Overthrow FDR
Wealthy industrialists, concerned with the failing US economy during the 30s, looked to Europe for guidance. Post World War I Europe was governed primarily by dictators. The success in Mussolini’s Italy was of particular interest. Mussolini’s reign was the product of corporate control of government, and under his leadership, the broken Italian economy leapt to its feet.
FDR, elected in the hopes of tackling Hoover’s Great Depression, was spending the US into obscene debt. The final straw was FDR’s retreat from the gold standard. Bankers and industrialists believed that a currency not tied to real wealth would destroy the US economy.
Buoyed by the prospect of a corporate/government merger, some of the biggest corporate names in the US hatched a plot to overthrow the FDR government.
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Tags: attempted coup, fascism, FDR, Mussolini, Roosevelt
