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ceejayozyesterday at 4:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Great example.

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

> Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt.


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Alive-in-2025yesterday at 5:05 PM

And also the us not prosecuting those people in 1935is sadly a precursor of j6 in the US.