Detroit comes to Washington: the presidency of Henry Ford

It's fairly common knowledge that Henry Ford was a Democrat after 1918, and that many wanted him to be president. Arguably, his best shot would have been either 1924 or 1928, although at the time, the model T to model A changeover was just hitting production, so the latter is debatable.

Suppose somehow, through sheer exhaustion or whatever, the Democrats turned to Ford in 1924 instead of John W. Davis? Now you have the stage set for a low-key but still definite anti-Semite in the White House at nearly the flood tide of the revived KKK. How does a Ford presidency affect the 1920s and beyond?
 
Ford was unlikely to run against Coolidge, who supported his bid to buy Muscle Shoals. (Ford never got it, of course: blocking the sale was one of the few victories of congressional progressives in the 1920's.)
 
I've been outlining a story for a while where Ford is elevated to the presidency after Europe falls to communism but outside of that I'm not sure how much further he can "push the envelope", though him as president during the Depression is quite a disturbing idea in itself.
 
I've been outlining a story for a while where Ford is elevated to the presidency after Europe falls to communism but outside of that I'm not sure how much further he can "push the envelope", though him as president during the Depression is quite a disturbing idea in itself.

He hated the big Banks and Wall Street, an opportunity to smash that up.
 
Best shot Harding lives and all the scandals crop up and Ford wins Democrat primary and wins due to scandal even with a stable economy wins
 
One aspect of Ford that often gets neglected: he was a strong free trader--he opposed Fordney-McCumber https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9L-dqBk86EC&pg=PA13 as well as Smoot-Hawley. https://books.google.com/books?id=oz_BDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 (The American automobile industry at this time did not need protection, as it already dominated the domestic market; it wanted to expand into foreign markets.)

Whether he could change tariff policy in the unlikely event he got elected is uncertain. (I say "unlikely" if only because the two-thirds rule would make it very difficult for him to win the Democratic nomination.)
 
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