The whole thing is blatant wish fulfillment but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. For the most part, it was stretching it but plausible right up until Archie and Rock publicly came out at the Oscars. In 1949. And received basically no professional backlash and then started shooting a same-sex romance in 1949.
On the other hand...it IS wish fulfillment and I suppose Ryan Murphy thought that if he was in for a penny with changing history, then he was in for a pound. Plus, I hope things like Hollywood and For All Mankind will help push mainstream alt-history in a direction different from “look! The Nazis won WW2, how much worse would the world be if that was the case? Aren’t you happy you live here?”
On the other hand...it IS wish fulfillment and I suppose Ryan Murphy thought that if he was in for a penny with changing history, then he was in for a pound. Plus, I hope things like Hollywood and For All Mankind will help push mainstream alt-history in a direction different from “look! The Nazis won WW2, how much worse would the world be if that was the case? Aren’t you happy you live here?”