DBWI: No President J. Edgar Hoover?

FDR was supposed to save the nation from the depression, but he was assassinated in February of 1933. Garner became President, labor unrest and communist uprisings almost tore the nation apart, then Hoover ran in 1936 on a platform of a return to order and expulsion of foreign communists and anarchists. Today he is remembered as one of the great presidents, routinely being ranked in the top ten.

How could it have gone otherwise if FDR survived? From what I've read he comes across as a commie.
 
I've heard that too, From what I've heard he was also pretty anti-fascist. who knows he might have gotten us involved in the European War or ruined our alliance with Japan.
 
No, the point is that I am presenting a world in which J. Edgar Hoover not only became President, but is remembered as one of the greats. It is a thought exercise.
 
Today he is remembered as one of the great presidents, routinely being ranked in the top ten.
Of course that is because the FBI rigs the polls, though they won't admit it.

Really, Hoover is the man who made the US one of the most illiberal democracies in the world. Look at where we've come: Censorship is ungodly (you can't say anything "Un-Christian" or "Un-American" in the media, though that's whatever the government says it was. And you can't say two swear words in public or in the media), critique of the government is basically treason, the FBI became little more than a secret police force, and the government and courts became totally corrupt, and Civil Rights is still an ongoing fight with King having been forced underground for decades. The man was only elected 9 times because people were afraid and he harassed and attacked those who began to think he was a bad leader. No other reason. If you were against Hoover, you were a Liberal or a Communist and forced to run to Canada.

Hoover was also an idiot when it came to economics, and I do believe that it was his fault we didn't begin to come out of the depression until the late 40's and early 50's. And the embargo that the modern Hooverite administration has in place on Japanese goods has retarded our markets majorly, both in Japanese computer goods and automobiles.
 
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