Smedley Darlington Butler was the most decorated Marine in US history at the time. He claimed that a shadowy cabal of rich and powerful business interests had tried to recruit him to lead a coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The plan is outlying to me was to form an organization of veteran to use it a bluff or as a club," he said.
A violent right-wing mob interrupts lawmakers formalizing the transfer of power to a new leader. But this isn’t Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, but rather Paris on February 6, 1934. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore that earlier event, the way it reverberates to this day and how it could help us understand what January 6 will mean for the U.S.
Featuring guests:
Jonathan Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism
Alice Kaplan, Sterling Professor of French at Yale University, author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
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