What if FDR, in addition to his economic policies, was an extreme nationalist and had his OTL authoritarian tendencies turned up to eleven?
He would probably lose re-election or be impeached. And if he tried to take things too far too quickly there might even be a coup. Look at the backlash he got from court-packing IOTL, and that was small potatoes compared to jailing dissidents.A revision to the original question: What if these authoritarian tendencies had not been very apparent until Roosevelt had taken office?
Then this probably should have been posted in ASB: that FDR might harbor such tendencies but have somehow get elected president without ever having shown any great evidence of them, including in his time as Governor of New York, is exceedingly improbable.A revision to the original question: What if these authoritarian tendencies had not been very apparent until Roosevelt had taken office?
*looks at the Japanese Internment camps and all his non-existent changes to race laws in the US*..hmm....
*looks at the Japanese Internment camps and all his non-existent changes to race laws in the US*..hmm....
What if FDR, in addition to his economic policies, was an extreme nationalist and had his OTL authoritarian tendencies turned up to eleven?
Not to mention the anti-Japanese propaganda, which was pretty much indistinguishable from the Nazis anti-Jewish stuff.
BUT...
Moscow-allied and sympathetic leftists also endorsed the internments and that propaganda, so we kinda have to be careful about who we're calling "fascist" here.