How you can turn the United States into a military junta or a proto-fascist dictatorship (the same style as the dictatorships in South America) with a PoD during the Cold War and without trigger WW3.
I have always felt that if MacArthur has refused to accept being fired by Truman that we would have gone down this road.
The POD is that MacArthur goes on a PR campaign claiming that Truman is soft on communism and that the only thing standing between communism and America is the US military. Congress meet and votes a resolution supporting MacArthur and demanding his reinstatement in Korea. If Truman backs down, then we start down that road.
Stubear1012
I have always felt that if MacArthur has refused to accept being fired by Truman that we would have gone down this road.
The POD is that MacArthur goes on a PR campaign claiming that Truman is soft on communism and that the only thing standing between communism and America is the US military. Congress meet and votes a resolution supporting MacArthur and demanding his reinstatement in Korea. If Truman backs down, then we start down that road.
Stubear1012
That wouldn't happen. If the President is impeached the Secret Service escorts them out, and if they decide to refuse we get the hilariously sad scene of an ex-President being dragged kicking and screaming out of the Oval Office. The Army wouldn't get involved, nor would the Navy, the Marines, etc. They are subordinate to civilian authority and anyone who proposed getting involved in a political squabble (particularly on the side of an impeached President) would get removed from command extremely quickly.How about if Nixon doesn't jack it in and forces Congress to impeach him.
Then when the US Army go in to cart him out, the US Marines go in to back him up, and thus we have a stand-off.
Could these events lead to the US ending up with a dictatorship, with or without Nixon at the helm?
Might be a bit ASB though!
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How you can turn the United States into a military junta or a proto-fascist dictatorship (the same style as the dictatorships in South America) with a PoD during the Cold War and without trigger WW3.
Nobody's brought up Rumsfeldia yet?
John McKeithen runs for President in 1972...
How you can turn the United States into a military junta or a proto-fascist dictatorship (the same style as the dictatorships in South America) with a PoD during the Cold War and without trigger WW3.