• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Because that’s what it’s always meant for the last roughly 100 years. In the 1930s robber, barons and Republicans were caught out when their plot to overthrow FDR and stop the New deal was discovered. Guess what repercussions they suffered being found out as traitors. FDR cut a deal with the fascists in return for passing the New deal. Largely wiping the details of the incident from recorded history. Leaving just a whitewashed footnote. And one of the implicated businessmen punished particularly hard by nothing happening. Went on to become a senator and eventual father and grandfather of two different United States presidents.

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      Please note Prescott Bush was a major part of that plan, which ended up getting slow rolled in with his idiot son and grandson, Bush 1 and W.