If USA went Communist in 1930s, how much local support could Japanese forces find in Hawai’i?

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As the title says.

Assuming that the United States had been taken over by Communists during the Great Depression and working with the premise that Communism would be just as "successful" in America as it was in the Soviet Union, how much local support/turncoats could the Imperial Japanese military potentially garner from the populations of Hawai'i and elsewhere if the Japanese military plays up their anti-communist credentials?
 
Well, the premise is ASB in my view. But it should be noted that the Communist Party was actually relatively strong in Hawaii (compared to most of the mainland) because of its power in the ILWU. "The Hilo Longshoremen led by Jack Kawano began unified strikes in the 1930s. The Hilo Longshoremen merged with the ILWU, and Jack Wayne Hall was sent to Hawaii. Among these unified strikes was the disastrous 1938 strike in Hilo against the Inter-Island Steamship Company. During World War II striking was put on hold as the members dedicated their efforts towards the war. In 1944 the ILWU and Communist Party of Hawaii put their support behind the Democratic Party, since it became apparent that Burns and his movement wanted to empower the working class. This meeting in 1944 has been considered the beginning of the movement. The movement became known as the "Burns Machine".[2] Burns admitted in 1975 that Communist Party members in the ILWU provided vital experience in maintaining secrecy and organizing support among labor workers while keeping the early movement underground.[3]..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Democratic_Revolution_of_1954

BTW, some Japanese-American Communists were so faithful to the party line that they even justified the party's support for internment...
 
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