In Trump's Plot to Seize the White House, Who Will Be Our Smedley Butler?

After four years, I’m finally nearing the end of writing my book about Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler and the making and breaking of America’s global empire. That means I happen to be working intensively on one of the wildest and most consequential chapters of the Fighting Quaker’s life right now: the time he stopped an honest-to-God fascist coup to overthrow…