AHC: Make FDR a dictator and make him live as long as possible

Basically try to make Franklin Delano Roosevelt a dictator and have him live as possible. Bonus if it is before 1933.
 
After William McKinley concluded his second term in 1904, and the Republicans won once again with the conservative Charles Fairbanks, the Socialist Party was becoming increasingly popular. Many workers had turned to Eugene Debs and the Socialists, not out of support for the destruction of Capitalism, but simply because the Democrats hadn't offered a viable solution to reform the extreme laissez-faire economic system. With a stance of non-intervention, President Taft kept of the United States out of the First World War. Unexpectedly, the Central Powers won the war, leaving the Allies in extreme debt to the United States with no way to pay them back.

After decades of Republican rule and a massive market crash in 1920, the Democratic ticket of William McAdoo/Franklin Roosevelt won in a landslide. With the economy in free-fall, the increasingly influential Socialist Party declared the Revolution imminent. In 1925, what would come to be called "The People's Plot" occurred. General Smedley Butler turned traitor, and led communist militias in a march on Washington. In a bombing of the White House, President McAdoo was killed, and riots broke out across the major cities of the US. Franklin Roosevelt, who had skipped his family vacation to Nova Scotia to fulfill his Vice Presidential duties, remained in perfect health. On the advice of BOI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and Generals George Patton and Douglas MacArthur, Roosevelt suspended the Constitution. The Supreme Court refused to ratify the decision, so Roosevelt "packed" the Supreme Court, appointing nine new justices to the Supreme Court, all Democrats and all Roosevelt supporters, who then ratified the suspension.

Under a broad policy known as "the New Day," Roosevelt implemented a wide range of economic reform and mass employment projects that rapidly modernized and industrialized the United States. Anti-authoritarian protesters, such as the famous humanitarian Herbert Hoover, became the first victims of "State Patriation," a process masterminded by J. Edgar Hoover in which American citizens were confined to their state of birth. Through forgery of documents, many protesters found they had "actually" been born in Alaska, Montana, and similarly isolated states. Roosevelt's "New Day Coalition" covertly encouraged gerrymandering and redistricting, which, on top of FDR's growing popularity, assured a supermajority in Congress. Despite Roosevelt personally supporting entering into a war with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the isolationist element of the New Day Coalition won out, with aid to the Allies being limited to lend-lease, which Prime Minister Churchill only begrudgingly accepted.

Roosevelt continuously got "re-elected" in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. While campaigning for a sixth term in 1947, Roosevelt was shot by a young member of the Republican Resistance, named Richard Nixon. Roosevelt survived, but was bound to a wheelchair. Roosevelt declared to his inner circle, the Pain Trust, that he was "born-again" after the incident, and expressed his desire to hold proper democratic elections and re-establish the pre-1925 Constitution. Unfortunately, the regime was too far down the road to turn back, and J. Edgar Hoover quietly took control of the workings of the government, with Roosevelt being restrained to particular powers in his own administration.

Roosevelt would win "re-election" twice more, in 1948, and 1952 before complications from his injuries from various assassination attempts led to him falling into a vegetative state. The comatose Roosevelt still won in 1956. After Roosevelt's death in 1958, the Pain Trust gathered to decide who would be the next President, with a four way power struggle developing between Douglas MacArthur, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph Kennedy Jr, and Lyndon Johnson. At the last meeting of the Pain Trust, Cabinet member John F. Kennedy had secretly given a Revolutionary kill team access to the White House. The kill team broke into the Roosevelt Room and executed the entirety of the Pain Trust. Kennedy served as President for one day. Declaring the end of the regime, and declaring Barry Goldwater, the leader of the Republican Resistance, as Vice President. Kennedy committed suicide the next day.

William McKinley (Republican) - 1897-1905
Charles Fairbanks (Republican) - 1905-1913
William Taft (Republican) - 1913-1921
William McAdoo (Democratic) - 1921-1925
Franklin Roosevelt (Democratic) - 1925-1958
John Kennedy (Democratic) - 1958
Barry Goldwater (Old Republic) - 1958-1963
Earl Browder (Syndicalist) - 1963-1971
 
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