Ford's America

Just as in OTL, the global stock market collapsed in the year of 1929. The fledgling global power, the United States of America, was particularly hard hit. Desperate for change, the American people were willing to grab their hands on anything to save their dying economy. On July 19th, 1930, the National Party of America was founded. Inspired by fascist movements in Italy, Germany, and other parts of Europe and Latin America, it sought to improve the economy with its relatively centrist fiscal policy and stir up strong nationalistic (and authoritarian) views among the American people. Enjoying strong support in the South due to its white supremacist views, and the Midwest due to its will to save heavy industry, it soon became a political force on par with the Democrats and the Republicans. The United States of America would see another three-way presidential election...

Any reception so far?
 
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Just as in OTL, the global stock market collapsed in the year of 1929. The fledgling global power, the United States of America, was particularly hard hit. Desperate for change, the American people were willing to grab their hands on anything to save their dying economy. On July 19th, 1930, the National Party of America was founded. Inspired by fascist movements in Italy, Germany, and other parts of Europe and Latin America, it sought to improve the economy with its relatively centrist fiscal policy and stir up strong nationalistic (and authoritarian) views among the American people. Enjoying strong support in the South due to its white supremacist views, and the Midwest due to its will to save heavy industry, it soon became a political force on par with the Democrats and the Republicans. The United States of America would see another three-way presidential election...

Any reception so far?

Snowstalker

Could be interesting but are you aware of Oakvale's Making History? Which is following a similar path - although Ford gets elected in 1924 and is assassinated just prior to the Wall Street Crash in TTL.

Steve
 
I'm not aware of it. Does it involve (stop reading if you don't want spoilers, highlight below if you do)
America joining the Axis?
 
I'm not aware of it. Does it involve (stop reading if you don't want spoilers, highlight below if you do)
America joining the Axis?

No, at least as far as I'm aware. Its still in the early 30's.;)

What your suggesting would make for a greatly different world and depending on the butterflies you might not get a WWII.

Steve
 
Henry Ford's election to the presidency would yield a sort of dystopia. First, Ford was sufficiently anti-labor that it's likely there would have been significant federal pressure brought to bear on various labor unions in an attempt to cripple them. Second, that Ford was strongly anti-Semitic is well documented. The setbacks received by the balck community during the Wilson administration would have been followed by analogous losses by the Jewish community during a Ford administration.

I could indeed see a spirit of cooperation between business and government resulting from government's anti-union stance resulting in a sort of elected proto-Fascism in the late 1920s. It's also not impossible that Ford's antisemitic views would have been welcomed/lent considerable support in a lot of the south; indeed, it's not impossible that a southerner with significant Klan ties would have been part of a Ford cabinet.

In short, the way could have been paved for the US during a Ford administration (and perhaps thereafter if he had anything of a legacy) forming strong bonds of sympathy with Nazi Germany.
 
So then I guess the part about the Nationals having centrist economic views is inaccurate.

Next chapter coming soon.
 
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Yeah, this is really late. Almost forgot about it.

The election of 1932 was, though not as much of a landslide as OTL, somewhat of a blowout. The incumbent, President Hoover, won in the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, giving him a total of 142 electoral votes. Having pretty much secured the rest of the country after FDR's death in September and the Democrats not running in the general election, Henry Ford secured a sizable victory of 389 electoral votes.

Few fixes for the OP (I can't edit it?):

No, the NP isn't strong in the Midwest. Forgot about the unions.
Fiscal policy is right-wing, not centrist.

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