That same summer, a populist Democratic candidate had a serious chance of getting into the White House. William Jennings Bryan promised social reform and to tackle the widespread corruption and greed that had plunged the country into ruin. But at the last moment, entrepreneurs and the financial establishment, supported by the Presbyterian Church, launched an aggressive countercampaign in which they told the public that phenomena such as socialism and trade unions were precisely what formed the greatest threat to what was left of the nation’s prosperity.
Same shit for a 100+ years
