David Corn: How the Republican Party turned into crazy fascists

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5. David Corn is of course correct but WTF is up with Thom Hartman...

saying: "...and then you had Smedley Butler and his merry band, you know 500k men with the Liberty League I think it was, whatever that veterans group was called that wanted to kidnapped FDR and perhaps kill him and replace him with a good fascist, right winger..."

God, I lost much respect for him right there. How does he not know that General Smedley Butler feigned being interested with the group of American industrialits, among them Prescott Bush, a Dupont, Sloan of GM and other prominent businessmen, who wanted him to lead an army of dissatisfied vets in a coup to overthrow FDR and install fascism.

Butler, who wrote "War is a Racket", exposed the whole plot, and Roosevelt threatened to expose their treachery if they tried to stop his New Deal initiatives.

How does Hartman not know all this actual history when he's supposed to be this super knowledgeable progressive? He actually scoffed and laughed at Gen. Butler, a true American hero.