Speaking of the fascist street demonstrations that brought down the French government of Édouard Daladier in 1934, Leon Trotsky wrote:
The French people for a long time thought that Fascism had nothing whatever to do with them. They had a republic in which all questions were dealt with by the sovereign people through the exercise of universal suffrage. But on February 6, 1934, several thousand Fascists and royalists, armed with revolvers, clubs and razors, imposed upon the country the reactionary government of Doumergue.
Now too, fascist violence and extraconstitutional coup-plotting have become an objective factor in American politics.
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