DBWI: Roosevelt is not assassinated

Of the political assassinations of US history, one of the most shocking was the assassination of president-elect Franklin D Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara on February 15 1933. John Nance Garner became president according to the 20th amendment. Some have speculated that Zangara's real target was Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was almost shot instead. So what if Cemark was killed instead of Roosevelt? What would have his presidency been like compared to Garner's?
 
What, the two-term abyss known as the Presidency of Texas? Cactus Jack did well by the rural part of the country, hence the existance of the TVA, Greater Utilities of Texas/GUTS, Central Cascadia Industrialization Company/C3I, and the Dakotas-Iowa-Minnesota-Wisconsin Trust/DIMWIT corporations. His failure to back deficit spending slowed any hope of economic recovery and caused first Wilkie to be in the White House then Dewey. Wilkie was dragged into the European war after German submarines torpedoed US ships carrying relief supplies to the UK, but by that point in early 1943 the world was *hurting*. Had Cactus Jack or Wilkie helped the Russians more maybe the war would have ended in 1946 or even 1945, instead the 'Paris Bluff' ended the war just as the Western Allies approached Metz and Germany claimed it would launch a nuke at the Eiffel Tower if the ground offensive were not ended. Japan succumbed to the US drops almost a year earlier in mid-1947 and Soviet remnants carved out the Trans-Siberian collective at the Ub, but a strangely 'reformed' uber-Germany would never exist nor would we likely see man walking on Titan or living on Mars within half a century. Certainly more than twenty nation bloc-alliances would remain, maybe ten times that number, had decolonization and the need for coalitions to match the might of Europe not come to pass.

In other words the specifics would be impossible to predict, as would the number of people likely surviving the atrocities of the 'Purity Program' recently released from their archives, but such a world would probably be unrecognizable.
 
Assuming that FDR had live and serve the standard Two Terms, who do you think would have been President during the War Years?
Would it still have been Willkie?

And I never been able to find out much about FDR proposed Economic Plans other then he was calling it the New Deal.
But It almost impossible to find out any details about them. So we have no way to decide if they would have help or made things worst economically.
 
Assuming that FDR had live and serve the standard Two Terms, who do you think would have been President during the War Years?
Would it still have been Willkie?

And I never been able to find out much about FDR proposed Economic Plans other then he was calling it the New Deal.
But It almost impossible to find out any details about them. So we have no way to decide if they would have help or made things worst economically.

There's some draft bills from Congressmen one can get a decent idea from, as well as the talks he held with members of the Hoover administration which showed which programs he was and wasn't interested in. The picture looks alot like what Mussolini and the "Integeralists" down in Latin America did: big infastructure projects designed to support heavy industry and energy production (Rural electrifion was even bigger on his agenda than Garners), expanding self-sufficiency by subsidizing some raw resource production, using the state as a banker for bigbussiness , ect. Now , weather that'd work and thus allow the Dems. to follow up with another candidate, I don't know: but if they do it'll probably be a Northerner rather than part of Jack's southern wing. Which means we're looking at a Tammany Hall bussinesses type who probably keeps bluring the line between the corperation and the State.

Facism really does have a unique approach to solving the problems of unregulated capitalism. Rather than going with the old Progressive route of slapping chains on the market to keep it from running wild, you basically do a brain transplant by tying it's interests to the national welfare
 
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