After the Business Plot failed in 1933, the ruling class learned a lesson: violent coups are messy. Influence is permanent. How corporate elites rebranded fascism as patriotism and built a long-term strategy. 🧵

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The Long Coup: How America’s Rich Stole Back the 20th Century; Part I: The Coup That Failed on Paper In 1933, while America was clawing its way out of the Great Depression, a group of rich men decided democracy was just too damn inefficient. They called it the Business Plot.

The Business Plot failed on paper—but the plot itself succeeded. The question isn’t if democracy can fail. It’s whether we’ll let it finish.

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1933. America in the depths of the Great Depression. Wall Street billionaires hatch a plan: a private army to overthrow FDR. It almost worked—and no one went to jail. Here’s the story of the Business Plot, and why it matters today. 🧵

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