Made worse by that unlike Long, who slants his AUS as a New America, the American Caesar path slants its dictatorship as saving the republic. That said, that if anything strengthens RiverDelta's point, doesn't it?
I mean, maybe to see happen...but if I
had to play as that inept martinet, I'd go Cincinnatus because
fuck being a hypocrite.
EDIT:
Look, this is Kaiserreich. 95% of your options are either bleeding-heart good guys or flawed but basically well-meaning folks. Half the tragedy of WK2: Red Flag Boogaloo is that the Commune and Empire are normally relatively decent folks who take care of their people, the Japanese have multiple good-guy options as well as the fascist coup, all of the Syndicalists have two good options (or are CNT-FAI, which tbh needs a little TLC soon), even the Carlists seem to be less dickish than their OTL counterparts. The regimes that are actually evil enough to need to be purged
at game start are limited to Mittelafrika (because
Göring, and Heydrich), the Iron Guard, and that evil fucker Beria's little hellhole in Georgia. Out of the options--Russia has
two obviously evil options (Totalist USSR and Savinkov) and a bunch of good options (Syndicalist USSR, democratic republic) and well-meaning options (Empire), America has three evil options (MacArthur, AUS, Totalists) and about five good options (Garner, who at least means well, Curtis, Syndicalists, Rad-Soc, Cincinattus MacArthur
maybe if you're a fan of his but I still don't like it), Germany does not IIRC even have the
option to become a fascist state unless it's puppeted, Britain goes either Rad-Soc or Syndicalist three times out of four, hell even Genghis Khan can regain a measure of sanity and not murder lots of people.
With so many cool options that don't involve murder and totalitarianism, why pick murder and totalitarianism?