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No Longer Jack was a timeline which should have lead to a bigger trope than it did. A politician is injured in the brain, resulting in a drastic shift in personality. It's a brilliant way to do a sort of ASB soul swap in a radical but totally realistic way. In that case, it was JFK becoming something of a Nixon paranoid on steroids. It could be done with anyone else. This thread is also inspired by the film Gabriel Over the White House, where the president gets in a car accident and returns a totally different person who basically achieves world peace and success, except he's Mussolini and does it through being a tyrant and excusing it as truly democratic.

For the purposes of this scenario, we're going with Franklin Roosevelt. The premise is that Roosevelt is injured in the brain in such a way that he is "no longer" Franklin Roosevelt. For the sake of this argument, we will say that it was the assassination attempt in 1933, which here hit him in the head but he survived. The interesting part of this scenario is that in that period, people were very desperate for a resolution to the Depression. This lead to the rise of fascism in Europe, but there were many people in America who said the president should -if only temporarily- assume dictatorship. The New York Times said For Dictatorship If Necessary. Roosevelt rejected it. However, let's say our alternate Roosevelt does not. Let's say our alternate Roosevelt becomes just as bombastic as John Kennedy in No Longer Jack, and is all too happy to take the power of a democratic dictator and take down his opponents by any means necessary. Perhaps he even believes he is divinely guided. What if we really had a Gabriel Over the White House scenario?
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