The GOP leaders convened in a small Ohio town to talk about building a MAGA movement that outlives Trump.

Archive article: https://archive.is/SyLKE a 2019 GOP strategy meeting in the small town of Rockbridge, Ohio, attended by billionaires and media personalities including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, hedge fund manager Rebekah Mercer, and economist Oren Cass. The attendees formed the “Rockbridge Network,” a GOP strategy network helmed by conservative venture capitalist Chris Buskirk, whose aim is to build a MAGA movement that outlasts Donald Trump by letting business leaders shape American policy.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      45·
      12 小时前

      Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, “there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.”

      Damn, I simply can’t imagine why these things keep happening…

      • xyzzy@lemmy.today
        15·
        11 小时前

        I’ve read a lot about this incident. The bottom line is it was going to be too embarrassing to the US government and corporate interests and so the business leaders likely received a stern talking to behind closed doors to never attempt anything like this again or else bad things would happen to them (presumably family names ruined, contracts canceled, etc.). A deal that, in fairness, they appeared to honor afterward.

          • xyzzy@lemmy.today
            2·
            3 小时前

            That’s actually a misconception that I believed for quite a while as well, because it was reported as fact in the mid 2000s by the BBC (I even saved the original report back in the day).

            But Butler never reported Prescott Bush as a conspirator, to our knowledge (at least not publicly, which is all we have to work with). The only reason Bush’s name came up at all in the report was because he and his firm were being investigated separately by the same congressional committee because of deep business ties to the Nazis, and it was around the same time. But basically, Bush was too busy making money by working with the Nazis at the time to be involved with the plot.

            Quite a lot of American industry at the time was working with the Reich, because many business leaders supported Hitler. Once America formally entered the war, doing business with Germany became illegal and any remaining fascist sympathies instantly became socially verboten.

        • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
          10·
          10 小时前

          Meanwhile the US is throwing money and contracts at Peter Thiel after he said openly he is hostile to the state and wants to destroy America. When the dollar becomes worthless, what is he going to draw his power from?