AHC: Fascist Regime in America

Who could be able to install such a regime ?

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Votes: 4 5.7%
  • Huey Long

    Votes: 11 15.7%
  • Franklin Roosevelt

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • The Business plot

    Votes: 25 35.7%
  • McArthur

    Votes: 11 15.7%
  • Charles Coughlin

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • William Dudley Pelley

    Votes: 5 7.1%
  • Van Moseley

    Votes: 4 5.7%
  • Other (comment)

    Votes: 6 8.6%

  • Total voters
    70

Pangur

Donor
I put down McArthur, not because I think he realistically would have(probably not) but because he seems like someone who could have "pulled it off" if the conditions were right for outright fascism.

I agree with the above. A combination option of McArhtur and the business plot would be the most likely option
 
If the Business Plot was real, and Im not saying it was or wasn't, it would have the most likely candidate to bring about Fascist America.
The US is so large to begin with that a fascist regime wouldn't need the same empire building as Germany and Italy to secure coal, oil, or agricultural self-sufficiency. It's hard to see an American claiming that Americans and Canadians are both one people in an analogue to Hitler's racial pan-Germanism, but Canada would probably just be Finlandized for cynical, geopolitical reasons.

A fascist US would look less like European fascism and more like a larger, English-speaking version of Latin American dictatorships or Juan Peron on steroids. Economic populism, nationalism, and extreme anticommunism can sell pretty well in the Americas, but territorial conquest really doesn't.
 
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