fascist USA possibiities

I think if FDR leaned a little more to the extreme he could form a dictatorship under him. Despite what we all may think FDR became president at a time when people encouraged dictatorship. William R. Hearst made, and consulted president-elect FDR, a film called Gabriel Over the White House, which argued for an American dictator.

FDR had numerous speech drafts to the American Legion in which he "would call upon you, as one would call upon men as in any war," to combat the economy. Politicans feared "socialist" Michigan would revolt by 1933. Despite what we know newspapers of the time show a clear fear of revolution, as well as the desire to counter it.

So why not FDR as a facist? A man who runs the USA, setting up programs to save the economy, and defend the people. As a fiscal conservative I can see FDR working to defned the wealth of people as a dictator, just as he did OTL.
 
Dear God, the imaginary business coup rears its ugly head again on the board!:eek:

Could you guys at least avoid having a left-leaning pro-FDR figure like Smedley Butler who was a public enemy of corporate abuses being asked to lead a coup by right-wing corporate executives?

Nevermind that it did occur IOTL. But that is besides the point the point of the exercise was to create a left leaning fascist dictatorship in America. In this situation FDR is not the picture he is dead in the late '20s.
 
I think if FDR leaned a little more to the extreme he could form a dictatorship under him. Despite what we all may think FDR became president at a time when people encouraged dictatorship. William R. Hearst made, and consulted president-elect FDR, a film called Gabriel Over the White House, which argued for an American dictator.

FDR had numerous speech drafts to the American Legion in which he "would call upon you, as one would call upon men as in any war," to combat the economy. Politicans feared "socialist" Michigan would revolt by 1933. Despite what we know newspapers of the time show a clear fear of revolution, as well as the desire to counter it.

So why not FDR as a facist? A man who runs the USA, setting up programs to save the economy, and defend the people. As a fiscal conservative I can see FDR working to defned the wealth of people as a dictator, just as he did OTL.

That is one interesting movie. I've seen it, at least twice, but not the entire movie in one sitting. One also has to remember that fascist wasn't a bad term at the time and it was seen, to a degree, to be the government of the future.
 
That is one interesting movie. I've seen it, at least twice, but not the entire movie in one sitting. One also has to remember that fascist wasn't a bad term at the time and it was seen, to a degree, to be the government of the future.

Oh yes. Its very odd to look at newspaper clippings, speeches, and even films of the time for you get the impression that many Americans were willing to acccept more radical ideas. While a history text or a biography paints Americans as against Communism, and Fascism such things always struck me as revising history.

Men spoke in favor of Mussolini, Russia, and knew that with a little more control the Depression could end. We are lucky in many ways that FDR seemed to err on the side of Democracy, court packing plan and all.
 
The so-called Business Plot with old enemies giving each other enough to destroy themselves, supposed Nazi sympathizers and Jewish financiers joining forces and out of all the officers available a staunch progressive like Butler of proven integrity, who once quit a job he was unable to perform(prohibition in Philadelphia), asked to lead a right wing coup.

Picking Butler for such a role would have been as sensible as a left wing plot whose leaders asked Douglas MacArthur to lead the operation.
 
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