
Fascist Coup in the USA! (The Business Plot of 1934)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Great Patriotism of the United States
"We need a fascious government in this country to save the nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we've built in america. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the soldiers and smedley butler is the ideal leader." "He said he had been in italy, in germany during the summer of 19 34 and the spring of 19 34, and had made an intensive study of the background of the notsy and facious movements ... He could organize a million men overnight," she says.
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In 1934, America was in the grips of the Great Depression and people were desperate for solutions. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the shadowy group of businessmen who began plotting to install an American fascist dictator and how close they came to succeeding.
