Political Threat Quotes
Although the Nazis railed against the Communists & Socialists, the potential opposition they feared the most was the middle class. See also {582967}.
He was assessing him with the demagogue Huey Long and determining that MacArthur was more dangerous, This was based on his brutal suppression of the Veterans who protested and camped in Washington to get the Bonus that Congress had promised them from WWI but would not appropriate the money, MacArthur’s huge ego and ambition, and his penchant for self-promotion. FDR did not at the time know of course that MacArthur would disobey his orders and almost start WWIII later by attacking China in the Korean War. President Truman fired MacArthur. See {638721} for the way FDR tried to handle him. In 2014, historian Mark Perry, would use this quotation as the title of his biography of MacArthur.
She resigned her political job even before West took office. Although there were many in the Tea Party crowd who were enthused by her call to violence if they could not achieve political results, there were also many who did not applaud and were clearly distressed by her statement. The Tea Party is not a classical party and it includes a wide variety of people who have very different views on most issues.
The “New World Order” is a “secret organization” which a number of conspiracy theorists believe is running much of the world behind the scenes and is planning to disarm all Americans as an early step in the takeover of America so they can have a dictatorial one world government. Jones is one of those believers.
