Long's Enviromentalist Axis America

I want to write a scenario that's an axis Victory but also not as depressing with long as president. Is this possible (doesn't need to be probable) or is this ASB
 
Not necessarily ASB but difficult.

The three most important questions are
1 ) Is the Axis the same as OTL (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan under Tojo) ?

2 ) Are the USA an active member of Axis ? Or an Axis-leaning neutral like Francoist Spain ? The first option is harder.

3 ) Why do the USA join (or support) Axis ? Japanese ambitions to dominate China were a threat to US interests (and the primary motive of the war for Japan was always China). So a compromise has to be reached there.
Then, the USA didn't like the idea of one empire dominating continental Europe (and possibly parts of Africa and Near East), and wanted to maintain Britain (important ally and trade partner) safe.
Finally the USA would remain a democracy (no way Long manages to pull a stable dictatorship) with large segments of population either Anglophile or isolationist. And even US far right placed US national interest above foreign allies.

So you need good and strong reasons to align with the Axis (likely including Red Scare and anticommunism, but not just that), as well as a reasonable compromise between US interests and Japanese/German aims (in Far East and Western Europe).

Possible but not easy.
 
What I was thinking is

1) Yes it's the same.

2) They are more towards axis leaning.

3) I was thinking they support the Axis to drive Europe out of the Americas and bring it under their influence. I was thinking the Americas wouldn't fight to much if there was a harder depression and the share our wealth program was instituted continent wide.
 

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Huey Long wouldn't ally with the Axis or cozy up with them. Charles Lindbergh wouldn't do that either. They probably won't provide Lend-Lease or embargo the Japanese but an alliance or unofficial alignment is not happening.
 
For an Axis America, it would be more like Long saying 'US or the Japs. You choose who's more important for your group'

It's almost ASB to get the USA and Imperial Japan on the same side after WWI
 
What I was thinking is

1) Yes it's the same.

2) They are more towards axis leaning.

3) I was thinking they support the Axis to drive Europe out of the Americas and bring it under their influence. I was thinking the Americas wouldn't fight to much if there was a harder depression and the share our wealth program was instituted continent wide.

Driving Europeans out of America, in 1939, means in practice driving the British out of North America. There are French, Dutch and British minor colonies in Caribbean and Guyana, but the US public or elites wouldn't care that much about it (normally).

To really motivate the USA to drive off the Europeans, there'd need an important conflict with Britain (so that British presence in Canada, and also in the Caribbean, Belize and Guyana, would feel like a threat to the USA), or maybe with France (for some reason, Frances become aggressive towards the USA and uses the Antilles Françaises as a forward base in the area). And if such a conflict (with Britain, France or both arises), we need to explain it.
 
a lot easier without Japan? have Germany maintain cooperation with China.

then having a populist, neutral US (really neutral) would harm the UK? enough for Germany, Italy, and Spain (?) to win? maybe
 
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