Jonathan M. Katz: You don't have sell me very hard on the idea that the roots of American fascism can be traced back through plutocrats getting radicalized by their horror at the New Deal

You don't have sell me very hard on the idea that the roots of American fascism can be traced back through plutocrats getting radicalized by their horror at the New Deal

In Dark Money, by Jane Mayer, she says it started in the ‘30s.The rich began financing free, for credit law classes that equated money with rights. They financed free 2-week vacas that require justices to sit thru seminars that teach the same thing. RBG attended one. Generations of the rich did this

I’d trace back its roots to the backlash against Reconstruction, but it definitely consolidated in the 30s.

Too many folks discount how slavery, and its dismantling, tie into this.

yea. phase one i New Deal might make us accountable. phase two: the Great Society is making us Black and feminine

Exactly.

Reminds me of a book I just reread.

My old money WASP grandfather called FDR a traitor to his class. Pretty common sentiment among his class in that time.

Smedley Butler

something something Business Plot

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“Corporations are people, my friend.”

Yup. They couldn’t abide the distribution of what is “rightfully” theirs.

Considering that the original definition of fascism from Mussolini himself intrinsically tied the power of the state and the power of the corporation to one another…yeah, that makes sense

That’s definitely why they planned to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the 30’s but they approached General Smedly Butler who told them to kick dirt.

The Ultra podcast makes clear how much the original American First movement was driven by an almost blind hatred of FDR.

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The Business Plot of 1933 says it all. W Bush’ grandfather was involved

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