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Let's Start a Coup! Ep 1 – A Basket Full of Fascists

Let's Start a Coup! Ep 1 – A Basket Full of Fascists

FromLet's Start a Coup!


Let's Start a Coup! Ep 1 – A Basket Full of Fascists

FromLet's Start a Coup!

ratings:
Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Mar 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nowadays, most people can agree that fascism is, well, a bad thing. But back in the 1930s, life absolutely sucked for most Americans, and fascism still had a sort of new car smell. Wall Street bankers were convinced they could take their country back from the clutches of ‘class traitors’ like Roosevelt, sink the New Deal and put the United States on a better – meaning more profitable – path. 
They had the money. They had an army. Now all they needed was a leader.
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Released:
Mar 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (6)

What would you do if a secret cabal of the nation’s most powerful people asked you to overthrow the President? Weirdly enough – it’s not a hypothetical. It almost happened to FDR in the 1930s, were it not for a very intense, very problematic Marine named Major General Smedley Butler.    Join Ben Bowlin, Alex French, and a cast of historical characters brought to life by Joe Kinosian for a darkly comedic – and terrifying –​ retelling of one of the weirdest forgotten schemes in American history.