So, today is the 80th anniversary of the defeat of General Butler and his Republican forces during the Second American Civil War, thus ensuring that the United States fell to a military right-wing dictatorship that lasted for over 50 years, before it, and the United States, collapsed in 1991. However, that got me thinking. What if the "Business Coup" was not pulled off in 1934? What if the US had remained Democratic?
Then I started thinking about a role reversal. What if, say, Stalin hadn't died under "mysterious circumstances," in 1931, and the USSR didn't begin its path towards democraticization. What if, after World War II, the superpowers ended up being a republican United States and a USSR still under the sway of Stalinism. How might the Cold War had ended up?