So I heard about something called the Business Plot on TikTok. It isn’t proven, but apparently a group of fat cat businessmen were scared of the FDR administration because they thought the New Deal would bring communism to the USA. They liked how in then-fascist states like Germany and Italy the fascist governments would treat rich elites very well and would stamp out communism. A group of those businessmen went to retired USMC Major General Smedley Butler, who was the head of the American Legion (a group of disgruntled WWI veterans). They offered to give him money to take his group of veterans and march to DC and overthrow FDR and create a fascist dictatorship. They didn’t know that he had became a radical anti-capitalist since his Marines day, so he took this information to US Congress, and we were able to avoid a fascist coup in the USA. George HW Bush’s father, Prescott Bush, was one of the alleged involved members.

I wanted to know how true this was, because it seems insanely interesting. I also wanted to know where I could read and learn more about it.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR3XYUm/

https://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr