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I posted this in "Red Dawn: Revolution and Rebirth", the continuation thread of Jello Biafra's "Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline".

It'd be interesting to see a right-wing equivalent of this timeline take place. This is not a socialist-wank but the Workers (Communist) party and the UASR are a far cry from Stalin's totalitarian tactics, so it's equal but opposite measure would need to not be a libertarian-wank but not be about a fascist America either.

While I'm not sure about Croix de Feur in real history, the Crossfire timeline kind of portrays them as the social conservative version of this. The Crossfire regime is very right-wing, but compared to Action Francaise and the Nazis are a whole different animal.


If I wanted to do this idea as an American political TL, what period in American history would be ideal for a "counter-revolution", what changes in the history leading up to that moment could cause a build-up to revolutionary levels of tension, and what might these counter-revolutionaries or bourgeoisie revolutionaries be like? Free-market libertarians, big business interests, military law and order types, cultural traditionalists?

The idea is that theoretically one could portray an anti-socialist "revolution" of sorts in the same median between utopia and dystopia as the American socialist society that emerges in Reds!/Red Dawn. Somewhere in-between Probability Broach style libertarian wank and a fascist America timeline. The problem is that I'm not even sure what to call such a thing. Whites like the White Army? And what do you call their "revolution"? A counter-revolution?

This is the discussion thread for such a proposed timeline. I'm interested in the topic and if some discussion here sparks a specific concept for me I think I might take a shot at the TL. If someone else is also inspired and wanted to do their own take on it or to collaborate, that would be cool to.
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