DBWI: Franklin Roosevelt isn't killed

On February 15 1933, Giuseppe Zangara shot president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had won against incumbent Herbert Hoover in a landslide. FDR would linger, ultimately died on March 6, becoming the fourth president to be murdered and the shortest term to date. John Nance Garner was sworn in as the 33rd president. With this, I have to wonder-what if Zangara missed Roosevelt?
 
Maybe the Second Civil War could be averted. Although considering it, FDR was old money and had less appeal to the common man than Huey Long did, so maybe things go as OTL, just potentially delayed.
 
He probably ends up being a 1 term president, much like Garner. People just don't understand that:

1: the president isn't a dictator, he can't just demand the government to do things, especially things that would violate the Consitution
2: the Great Depression isn't something that could be solved with dictatorial powers, at least not for a country such as the US. Guns are not a substitute for butter, unless you're going to steal other people's butter, and the US at the time just isn't that ruthless.
3: people are fucking impatient, if they don't see improvements within a year, they're already considering someone else, or some other solution (especially those pie in the sky ones)...
 
Maybe we don't have German troops invading Boston, New Jersey, Delmarva, North Carolina, and Florida as Japanese troops invaded Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle in 1954. We seriously underestimated both, especially Japan, and Fall Gold, aka Operation Octopus, was a rude shock. Only in 1961 were the last of the foreign forces officially defeated, the horrors of Denver as Germany and Japan threatened to link up fronts and the two 'Starvation Winters' made it painfully obvious the price we paid for our freedoms. Maybe that would be avoided, maybe it wouldn't, but certainly our capital might still be in Washington instead of Liberty City - without a reason to relocate the area might be the northernmost suburb of Kansas City of just where Nebraska and Missouri meet on the Missouri River.
 

Dolan

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Maybe we don't have German troops invading Boston, New Jersey, Delmarva, North Carolina, and Florida as Japanese troops invaded Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle in 1954. We seriously underestimated both, especially Japan, and Fall Gold, aka Operation Octopus, was a rude shock. Only in 1961 were the last of the foreign forces officially defeated, the horrors of Denver as Germany and Japan threatened to link up fronts and the two 'Starvation Winters' made it painfully obvious the price we paid for our freedoms. Maybe that would be avoided, maybe it wouldn't, but certainly our capital might still be in Washington instead of Liberty City - without a reason to relocate the area might be the northernmost suburb of Kansas City of just where Nebraska and Missouri meet on the Missouri River.
That's the fault of Huey Long ordering the invasion of Canada, so much that Britain asked for Der Kaiser and The Emperor to help them while they fight to liberate British North America.
 
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