AHC: Right-wing socialism in the U.S.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have forces on the American Right adopt a "third way" economic policy to undermine the Left (this would likely require a stronger American Left to begin with).

Basically, a situation similar to what happened in Germany.

Some on the Left may argue that the New Deal & Great Society OTL meet the requirements here, but I'm looking for something a bit more robust than those programs (e.g. proper universal healthcare) and it needs to come from the "conservatives" or right-wing of the American political spectrum.
 
I think Teddy Roosevelt could have been a major figure in creating right wing socialism if had spent more time creating a coherent political ideology.
 
Bit of a cliché, but if MacArthur overthrows the US government and institutes a military government it could end up developing that way if his tenure as SCAP in Japan is any indication. He certainly has the conservative traditional Republican background.
 
In the context of this thread, something resembling social democracy but with a more conservative/reactionary character.

I took inspiration from Bismarck's Staatssozialismus in the German Empire.

They did that to preserve the existing social order. The US doesn't have an equivalent, so preserving the economic order becomes the main priority instead.
 
They did that to preserve the existing social order. The US doesn't have an equivalent, so preserving the economic order becomes the main priority instead.
This is what I was trying to get at. We already have this to some extent OTL (again, the New Deal/Great Society programs).
 
This is what I was trying to get at. We already have this to some extent OTL (again, the New Deal/Great Society programs).

Something like the Dixiecrats? Bilbo and Wallace were economic populists and rabid segregationists. Basically right on social issues and left on economic issues.
 
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I think Teddy Roosevelt could have been a major figure in creating right wing socialism if had spent more time creating a coherent political ideology.
Hmm Teddy's hawkish but he wasn't exactly reactionary. Dude was pretty socially liberal by the standards of the age. Your best bet is a Wallace style Democrats, in fact that's exactly what happens in No Southern Strategy and the resultant policy of "Communonationalism" becomes pretty big. That's pretty much what is being described here.
 
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