However, it was the President’s desire to abandon the gold standard that stunned both the super-rich, who had felt fairly insulated from the Depression, and a significant number of average Americans who believed that Roosevelt was flirting with Bolshevism.
The general American public was reeling from the depression. Roosevelt's way out was government spending - The New Deal. The rich and big business saw this as a doorway to Bolshevism. They were so afraid of the tenets of the New Deal that they started plotting a way to remove Roosevelt from the White House through a coup using a paramilitary. They approached the wrong man to lead this paramilitary force.
