WI: GOP disintegrates in the 1930s?

Depends on when. The duopoly is so entrenched in American politics that some kind of opposition will arise, probably after FDR's death. The Farmer-Labor Party may do better, though, and survive.
 
A new party composed of the more right-leaning Dixiecrats along with Northerners worried about communism springs up. They'll have taken Congress by 1948 at the latest, the Red Scare was just too powerful.
 
It would be hard. If it collapsed as a party of any national strength, it would remain a party with local regional strength, which would keep it in Congress if not the White House. That is essentially the OTL, until the New Deal charm began to wear off with enough people that the Republicans made ground, almost took the White House in 1948, and retook it in 1952, and took Congress for a short while around one of those years before botching it and having the Democrats retake it.
 
It would be hard. If it collapsed as a party of any national strength, it would remain a party with local regional strength, which would keep it in Congress if not the White House. That is essentially the OTL, until the New Deal charm began to wear off with enough people that the Republicans made ground, almost took the White House in 1948, and retook it in 1952, and took Congress for a short while around one of those years before botching it and having the Democrats retake it.

They retook Congress in 1946 and 1952 for two years each. And yeah, I share your skepticism regarding the actual premise here. Even in the 1930's with FDR revered as a God, America was still as far right as Rumsfeldia compared with every other industrialized nation not named Nazi Germany.
 
Even in the 1930's with FDR revered as a God, America was still as far right as Rumsfeldia compared with every other industrialized nation not named Nazi Germany.

Not as far right as Britain under Ramsay Macdonald.
 
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