Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps

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2. I don't think it was RW politicians that helped Hitler to power but rather

businesses. Mussolini was first and they tried to replicate the "business owns government" model to Germany and the USA.

This article details how the plot against FDR played out in the US:

http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/53-index.html

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In 1933, Butler was approached by men representing a clique of multi-millionaire industrialists and bankers. They hated U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) with a passion, and saw his “New Deal” policies as the start of a communist take-over that threatened their interests. FDR even had the temerity to announce that the U.S. would stop using its military to interfere in Latin American affairs! Wall Street’s plutocrats were aghast! They had long been accustomed to wielding tremendous control over the government’s economic policies, including the use of U.S. forces to protect their precious foreign investments. Because of Butler’s steadfast military role in upholding U.S. business interests abroad, the plotters mistakenly thought they could recruit him to muster a “super-army” of veterans to use as pawns in their plan to subjugate or, if necessary, eliminate FDR.