WI: Business Plot Actually Takes Place

What if the Business Plot ended up being a real plot against President Roosevelt and was actually put into action to remove him from office?
 
What if the Business Plot ended up being a real plot against President Roosevelt and was actually put into action to remove him from office?

It fails. A lot more distrust of business leaders might come about as a result, but I can't see it having that much of an affect on the U.S outside of the outrage it would generate.
 
It fails. A lot more distrust of business leaders might come about as a result, but I can't see it having that much of an affect on the U.S outside of the outrage it would generate.

This is probably true, I think: even if the plotters actually managed to oust FDR for a brief time ITTL, the outrage, even in the South(a lot of rightist Southerners had no love for the guy because of the New Deal, and probably only grudgingly supported him because he was a Democrat), and amongst conservative Republicans, would have been quite widespread.....I can actually see a lot of opposition to the President's agenda softening and/or collapsing, even, in the aftermath(at the very least, less discrimination is able to weasel its way into the system).
 

cpip

Gone Fishin'
I'm beginning to think the Business Plot may need to go next to Sealion on the forum as Things That Have Been Talked Out.
 

TFSmith121

Banned
The DC Police and the Secret Service arrest everyone

What if the Business Plot ended up being a real plot against President Roosevelt and was actually put into action to remove him from office?


The DC Police and the Secret Service arrest everyone involved who was actually serious about it; including the officers, might require two sedans.;)

Best,
 
Smedly Beutler organizes a sting on the plotters. A dozen second tier plotters are arrested and half that indicted. A deal is cut & they serve a few token months. Head lines are Lurid for months, demonstrations & riots occur, Organized Labor takes a hard line. Socialist & Communist parties gain a few votes The upper crust folks behind the plot become untouchable pariahs for all but a few politicians. Few pols will risk his career associating with them. When WWII comes pro facist US business leaders will have a tougher time arguing for either supporting Germany or even nuetrality.
 
It backfires badly, the union movement gets stronger they can now wave the flag while corperate america's image is now tainted. This means a stronger union movement in america in the long run.
 
From another thread.

The idea of an actual Business Plot with the virulently anti-Semitic and Social Darwinist General Mosley Van Horn instead of Smedley Butler has been floated once or twice.

His name was George Van Horn Moseley.

lol imagine a timeline where he becomes Supreme Commander of the government after purging the business plot cabal, and Oswald Mosley rises to power in Britain. The new Anglo-American Authoritarian Hegemony, brought to you by Moseley & Mosley.

Funny names!
 
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