Suggestions for Fascist USA timeline in the 1980's

How powerful can the SLA become

  • Not any more influential than in OTL

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • A movement operating more as a criminal gang than a revolutionary idea

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • A movement that will attract more radicals and engage in low level terrorism

    Votes: 5 41.7%
  • A active organization that launches frequent terror attacks. Considered a national security concern

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • A large spread organization that merits massive federal response to crush

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Total voters
    12
I am looking for an appropriate POD to make Fascism in the 1980s. I have an idea regarding turning the Republican Party with "Fascist Characteristics". I was wondering if the diversion of making the
Symbionese Liberation Army a more dangerous organization in the 1970s leading up to an attempted assassination of Reagan while governor. I have plans to make the 70's function far differently than they did in OTL. I have been a long-time viewer of AH and am curious on any suggestions that could be provided.
 
No bailout of the banking industry in 1982 during the Savings and Loans Crisis, so you get a 2008 style economic crash that takes out a few of the major American banking corporations. Mexico's economy completely collapses meanwhile, due to their existing Debt Crisis, inflaming the existing tensions therein given unrest under the continued dictatorship of the PRI. Between these two events, the U.S. takes an insular approach, so refrains from the extensive buildup in Europe of IOTL. Labour is able to win the 1982 elections against Thatcher, resulting in BOAR being drawn down and the UK either severely curtailing its commitments to NATO or taking a French approach. Soviets then take advantage of all of this to overrun West Germany ala Red Army by Ralph Peters style in 1985 or thereabouts after BOAR has largely ceased to exist. Between economic collapse at home and a likely renewed Red Scare due to the Soviet global advance, there is definitely an opening for the Far Right to emerge on the scene, particularly with the early discrediting of Neoliberalism.
 
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No bailout of the banking industry in 1982 during the Savings and Loans Crisis, so you get a 2008 style economic crash that takes out a few of the major American banking corporations. Mexico's economy completely collapses meanwhile, due to their existing Debt Crisis, inflaming the existing tensions therein given unrest under the continued dictatorship of the PRI. Between these two events, the U.S. takes an insular approach, so refrains from the extensive buildup in Europe of IOTL. Labour is able to win the 1982 elections against Thatcher, resulting in BOAR being drawn down and the UK either severely curtailing its commitments to NATO or taking a French approach. Soviets then take advantage of all of this to overrun West Germany ala Red Army by Ralph Peters style in 1985 or thereabouts after BOAR has largely ceased to exist. Between economic collapse at home and a likely renewed Red Scare, there is definitely an opening for the Far Right to emerge on the scene, particularly with the early discrediting of Neoliberalism.

Interesting would there be a way for the banking industry to go kaput in the late 1970s.
I was thinking of making the Cold War a possibly 3-way dance between Liberal Democracy, Fascism, and Communism. Is there a way I could keep NATO together as an anti-communist bloc but nothing else. The 1970s will be a downfall for democracy in the United States. The Main POD's we are going to have is a drawn-out ugly Watergate. And Ronald Reagan's second term
 
There is simply no way in hell to turn the US fascist at that late date short of a meteor strike or the like. It was simply too rich and stable with a long history of being a democratic republic. Fascist dictatorships sprung up in countries that were recently impoverished due to war.
 
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