Morgan Housel

Oh yeah.

But at the time, especially in the 1930s, before he became the war hero of the 1940s, in the 1930s, a lot of people hated the guy.

He was the picture of everything that was wrong with America and he was gonna be, he was the emperor kind of thing.

He was not a popular guy in the slightest.

And very interesting thing, I think about this a lot.

There was in 1932,

a very well organized plot.

It was called the business plot, where a lot of very wealthy business people in America came together and wanted to organize, did organize what was gonna be a coup.

And they were gonna force FDR out of office and replace him with a Marine general named Smedley Butler, who would effectively- Smedley.

Smedley Butler, great name.

And he would effectively become dictator of the United States.

And in an era where that happened in Germany and Italy, and go on down the list of where that was happening,

And as I said earlier, fascism was not a dirty word at that point.

It came damn close to happening.

It didn't, obviously.

Because it didn't happen.

And so a lot of people don't pay attention to the things that didn't happen.

They don't pay attention to the terrorist attacks that were thwarted.

Yeah, no, it's a very interesting thing because it was very well organized and funded by a lot of wealthy people to do it.

And so we know the story that happened, but there's a lot of alternative histories in which