Best candidate for a fascist president of the USA?

C'mon, have you read about his service during WWII? For all he was wrong about Hitler before Pearl Harbor, he wasn't some vainglorious bastard. His father had been a pretty anti-establishment congressman, and an American fascist dictator isn't going to get anywhere if Big Business thinks he is from an 'anti-capitalist' background.
As for his charisma--that's a creation of the media of the time.

I think Lindberg,for his charismatic personality.

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Huey Long
I don't see it happening. Fascism is by definition a corporatist structuring of society, and with Long attacking corporations and corporate greed in the Senate and in Louisiana, I doubt he could have supported such a societal structure. That, and Long, in my opinion, didn't have overtly fascist tendencies, he was just corrupt, which doesn't always equal fascist, at any rate. Besides, he was quite the quasi-socialist as it was. Share Our Wealth would never have flown in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy.

Charles Coughlin
Well, the obvious problem here is that Coughlin was born in Canada, though with a fascist revolution of some sorts, I still don't really see it. Coughlin would be an excellent propaganda minister, though.

William Dudley Pelley
Don't know enough about the guy, but from the Wiki article, he looks almost like a genuinely American version of Hitler. A distinct possibility, I guess.

Fritz Kuhn
I don't see this one happening, simply because I don't think that a clone Nazi movement would work. If you're going to have fascism in the United States, it has to have a genuinely American flair to it.

George Rockwell
He'd need to at least appear as not a Nazi, especially after WWII. Let's say Rockwell joins either major party, becomes something like Governor or Senator from Virginia, then makes a Presidential bid, in oh, say, 1968. If he pulls a Nixon-style 'Law and Order' campaign, he's going to be a perfect poster boy for fascism in the United States.

Charles Lindbergh
I don't think Lindy was himself a fascist, but he'd be the perfect figurehead for a Fascist government. Like the conspiracy theory that the Rabbi Benglestorf [sic] was talking about in The Plot Against America, but more realistic and not totally insane. Say you have Lindy on the top of the ticket, but have someone like Henry Ford really pulling the strings. There's your fascist America.
 
Using the new meme (And mutating it): Elvis survive, meet Ron Paul and talk Ron Paul into becomming a fascist. :D
 
I don't see it happening. Fascism is by definition a corporatist structuring of society, and with Long attacking corporations and corporate greed in the Senate and in Louisiana, I doubt he could have supported such a societal structure. That, and Long, in my opinion, didn't have overtly fascist tendencies, he was just corrupt, which doesn't always equal fascist, at any rate. Besides, he was quite the quasi-socialist as it was. Share Our Wealth would never have flown in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy.

Now, there are various strands of fascism like any other broad political belief, I suggest you google the Strasser Brothers, to read about socialistic tendencies in the german Nazi party. Also Mussolini started life as a radical syndicalist member of the Italian Socialist Party, he was even the editor if it's official newspaper.
 
Dick Cheney.

This, too, is plausible. Have Bush get whacked by a deranged gunman who lost their son or daughter in Iraq, or follow the cliche and have him die by the hands of a terrorist. Que Cheney, the Imperial March, and a beefed up police state in the U.S.
 
As much as I hate to add fuel to a fire, I must reply to the mails stating that Dick Cheney could have, or would have, been a fascist dictator. It is very easy to start and end a political debate by calling your opponent a fascist (or the reverse, a communist) but it does not advance the argument.
Dick Cheney was, and is, a conservative Republican. He has always played by the rules of a democratic society, supporting others for election, standing for office himself, accepting defeat, and moving on.
You may disagree with him on specific issues, such as how to properly deal with ememy combatants or economic policies but he has never shown any inclination to throw political opponents in jail without trial, ignore the results of elections or any of the other telltale signs of a fascist dictator.
If you don't like the Patriot Act, repeal it. Congress is still in session and the last I heard, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Maher and Keith Olberman are still at liberty and not occupying adjoing rooms at Club Fed. And oh, yes, we have a freely elected Democratic President who has continued some of the very same Bush/Cheney policies his supporters thought were the start of "fascism" in the U.S. but are now just common sense measures to protect us against those who seek to do us harm.
 
How about Joseph McCarthy? Whether he would be fascist by definition is subjective, I suppose, but considering he always bragged about having a list of 'communists', imagine what he could do as President--Stalinist type purges, anyone?
 
Joe McCarthy was an opportunistic alcoholic who folded like a cheap suit when finally challenged. While he may have been a slimy guttersnipe who ruined many individual carrers and set back the cause of rational anti-communism,he had neither the courage nor the determination to do anything more than denounce people who either could not or would not fight back. A true fascist disctator would have to be made of much sterner stuff than Joe McCarthy.
 
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