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Welcome to yet another attempt from me to use my favorite alternate history ideology, the quick and easy ecumenical pragmatic authoritarianism of Ian's Unification timeline, unionism.
I originally proposed that a variant of the ideology is adapted by a revolutionary Chinese Republic. But then again, it might be odd for a non-Western nation to adapt a (up until then) theoretical system of government out of Western philosophy.

So, what if an alternate timeline that's basically OTL except Maxwell Jameson was real and he did present a mildly popular brand of thought for some time, Unionism came to power in the post-war Depression era, when everyone was trying new forms of government? I mean, besides fascism and communism there was all sorts of wacky things such as technocracy and Social Credit. So could Unionism (or a hypothetical offshoot thereof) have become popular somewhere in Europe other than for Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, parliamentary monarchy Britain, and Catholic-Fascist Italy and Spain? What about France? Perhaps Unionism, with its revolutionary appeal, less exclusive (compared to fascism, and even communism in some ways) nature, and rally-round-the-flag appeal, could have taken root in the country that changes governments like whores change dresses.
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