The rhetoric of authoritarianism is often couched in anti-elitist, populist, phrasing.

Eliminate private banks that inflate their own profits at your expense, dear citizen. The state is here to protect you with money created and issued directly to you!

It's not the FED's fault the banks failed, but their own capitalist greed.

This person was *almost* put in charge of overseeing the entire banking system as Comptroller of the Currency.

We stand on a knife's edge...