If you want to continue the Deco era and to create major butterflies to enable big changes such as the topic describes, why not something like WWIII in 1950 or 1951, before either side has too many atomic bombs or the apocalyptic networks of ICBM's we associate with the Cold War?
The U.S. never really gets a chance to transition out of the war economy, Truman is reelected in 1952, Ike is Supreme Alllied Commander again, MacArthur gets the open war with the PRC he wanted, etc.
Afterward, "Soviet dupes" are discredited just as the anti-war movement during the Great War were tarred from then on with their jail sentences for sedition during the war, major industries like steel have been nationalized, and the U.S. has more or less become a one-party dominant state.
And just as the yippies were preceded by the hippies (summer of love style) who were preceded by the early hippies (failed attempts at utopian agrarian communism), the movement of young conservatives could maybe begin with a Southern Agrarian style romantic revival of interest in country life, and using that as a vehicle for nostalgia about the past.
The U.S. never really gets a chance to transition out of the war economy, Truman is reelected in 1952, Ike is Supreme Alllied Commander again, MacArthur gets the open war with the PRC he wanted, etc.
Afterward, "Soviet dupes" are discredited just as the anti-war movement during the Great War were tarred from then on with their jail sentences for sedition during the war, major industries like steel have been nationalized, and the U.S. has more or less become a one-party dominant state.
And just as the yippies were preceded by the hippies (summer of love style) who were preceded by the early hippies (failed attempts at utopian agrarian communism), the movement of young conservatives could maybe begin with a Southern Agrarian style romantic revival of interest in country life, and using that as a vehicle for nostalgia about the past.