Fascist Party/Paramilitary Names

Let's use the United States as the country we're doing this in, but an AH fascist party in the United States, what would the party be called? What would their paramilitary(s) be called? What about for other countries? I find it interesting that a lot of names of fascist things, you can tell they're fascist just because of their name, which has a certain quality to it, so tell me what you think.
 
I was kicking around a little fun thing and came up with a second civil war scenario in the 1940s. The fascists consider themselves the legal heirs to the old US and call themselves the American Redoubt. They control everything east of Minnesota and north of Nevada.
 
The Union Party, supported by the American Guard.

Bear in mind that the core of fascist ideology is national unity, as in total marching-in-ranks conformity.

"American Guard" is just an obvious formation.

Something more colorful (literally, in this case): the Blue Eagles.

In OTL 1933-1934, there was a "Blue Eagle" campaign associated with the National Recovery Administration, which had a "Blue Eagle" logo. The campaign included rallies, motorcades, and immense parades, with tens of thousands of marchers carrying Blue Eagle banners, flags, and signs. There's definitely a fascist feel to this. If one wanted to illustrate a Fascist America TL, photos of "Blue Eagle" events would fit nicely. The NRA wasn't actually fascist, but it had some of the look.
 
What is this fascination in trying to get GB or the US fascist? Neither country came even close and IIRC no long-established democracy ever has either. The closest is Petain and he only took over because of the Nazis.
 
What is this fascination in trying to get GB or the US fascist? Neither country came even close and IIRC no long-established democracy ever has either. The closest is Petain and he only took over because of the Nazis.

Liberal Democracies are always close to fascism.
 
On what planet?

The one where an economic crisis and two bad election cycles is enough to get people to pull out the swastikas and fasces.

Liberal Democracies are inherently fragile* and prone to authoritarianism when faced with any kind of substantial social pressure. Make that pressure severe enough then they will have fascism develop within their societies and institutions.

It's possible to build a lasting society built on the representative forms that have dominated the Anglo-European world, but the attachment they have to the economic institutions of their societies are an invitation to instability. Instability gives cause to weaken those instititutions (economic, political, or anything else; nothing in society is truly sacred once a society's gone fascist): civil liberties will suffer, social frustrations find their outlet in one way or another and on the whole the society becomes more toxic and volatile by virtue of an everpresent fixture of its structure. You know how the story goes.

Political dissidents end up in jail, or dead.

Undesirables end up in jail, or dead.

And the political economy loses spontaneity and flexibility as more and more space is taken up by whatever it is that's become the new center of power.*

So long as these forms of government/social organization take the forms that they do, they will be vulnerable to fascism because they will always have the ingredients for its formation.


*The "inherence" is that Liberal Democracies are inextricable from capitalism, and even if the political and social institutions of any country are deep rooted and healthy, there is always a point of weakness in the economic standing of the nation. Capitalism creates economic crises, always has. Some are worse, some are better, but they're a part of the system and the system is liable to suffer for it at one point or another.
*That last bit can be the "strongman dictator", it can a party itself, it can be a religious organization, it can be some cabal of collaborating capitalists, doesn't really matter. Fascisms tend to share aesthetic more than structure.
 
The one where an economic crisis and two bad election cycles is enough to get people to pull out the swastikas and fasces.

Liberal Democracies are inherently fragile* and prone to authoritarianism when faced with any kind of substantial social pressure. Make that pressure severe enough then they will have fascism develop within their societies and institutions.

It's possible to build a lasting society built on the representative forms that have dominated the Anglo-European world, but the attachment they have to the economic institutions of their societies are an invitation to instability. Instability gives cause to weaken those instititutions (economic, political, or anything else; nothing in society is truly sacred once a society's gone fascist): civil liberties will suffer, social frustrations find their outlet in one way or another and on the whole the society becomes more toxic and volatile by virtue of an everpresent fixture of its structure. You know how the story goes.

Political dissidents end up in jail, or dead.

Undesirables end up in jail, or dead.

And the political economy loses spontaneity and flexibility as more and more space is taken up by whatever it is that's become the new center of power.*

So long as these forms of government/social organization take the forms that they do, they will be vulnerable to fascism because they will always have the ingredients for its formation.


*The "inherence" is that Liberal Democracies are inextricable from capitalism, and even if the political and social institutions of any country are deep rooted and healthy, there is always a point of weakness in the economic standing of the nation. Capitalism creates economic crises, always has. Some are worse, some are better, but they're a part of the system and the system is liable to suffer for it at one point or another.
*That last bit can be the "strongman dictator", it can a party itself, it can be a religious organization, it can be some cabal of collaborating capitalists, doesn't really matter. Fascisms tend to share aesthetic more than structure.

Where. exactly, are people putting up swastikas and fasces? Not in the US or GB or France or Switzerland or Canada or... Considering the US has lasted 238 years it seems not to be all that unstable. As far as economics goes Communism is very unstable. It veers from side to side as its prices have no semblance to the real world and are either too cheap (Steel for one, usually) or expensive (Most consumer goods).

Even if it were unstable there are many forms of government it could turn into such as Communist, Monarchist, Theocratic, and Plutocratic among others. There are far more government types than Liberal Democracy, Fascism and Communism.

The WORLD causes an economic crisis. That is because the world is not totally stable. Resources become exhausted, new resources are discovered, technological change happens, borders change and a whole host of other things cause an economic crisis.

IOW Fascism instead of a government system = something I don't like. BTW Communism tends to resemble Facsism. One-party state? Check Overwhelming control over the economy? check No freedom of speech? check No freedom of religion? Check and on and on.
 
Old Guard
New Guard
Country women’s association.

Monash’s white guard.
Victoria’s underground white army.
Citizens Military Force
 
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I think an American fascist party would probably be at least somewhat neo-Confederate in nature, or at least taking from Confederate imagery, so that's where I propose my paramilitary name, the Stonewalls. Along those lines, the party would be named the Jefferson Davis party or the Alexander Stephens party. Lee was not racist enough to have the party named after him.
 
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