@Computer God Autism By the way, since Yippie is now making AmeriKKKa fascist because of the New Deal, can you give us an effortpost on how you would design a fascist/managerial TNO America in terms of writing and gameplay?
The biggest impediment to America becoming a lowercase-f fascist state from the New Deal is that FDR died with his revolution unfinished. He had the most effective political machine in American history at his disposal, had totally cowed his domestic enemies, kept large industrialists and utilities walking on eggshells, had the largest Cult of Personality in a President since Washington himself, and the total loyalty of the military, but all of that was just him. Discussions about term limits were being held before his body was cold and his successors, none of whom Roosevelt had shown any real favor or preference for, were unable to hold together his political coalition, while the Supreme Court suddenly remembered it had balls again. The New Deal consensus would invariably break apart whenever a politician realized it would be more personally and immediately advantageous to patronize ethnic minorities over whites, which would also prevent a capital-f Fascist form of organizing labor, while the existence of the Republican party as a coalition outer party and no meaningful third parties would necessitate concessions without someone as strong as Roosevelt to slap them around or as pliable Thomas Dewey leading them.
Basically to prevent the fascist managerialism of the New Deal from transforming into neoliberalism, FDR would have needed a clear, hand-picked successor groomed for the position, there could no term limits imposed on the Presidency, the Republicans would have to split, and racial issues would either have to be sidelined or crushed. You could still have elections, still have a supreme court, still have a constitution, still have a market that resembled OTL, but all of them would be rendered farcical in terms of how power would then be concentrated and delegated (not that
that could ever happen, not here certainly).
Gameplay wise, assuming that all of that is the case, you would have two balances of power; one between the Presidency and Supreme Court, and one between the New Deal hardliners and burgeoning Radicals in the Democrat party. If the Supreme Court gets too much power, it suddenly remembers that most of the New Deal is just blatantly unconstitutional and can cause a political crisis; if it suddenly remembers that but has been sufficiently packed, then it can render the President a figurehead and begin consolidating power into itself. Inversely, too much power in a President just gives away the lie of an Imperial Presidency, and would bolster opposition over how things are resembling that German model just a bit too much. Political Power would be spent on having to manage and dilute the large industrialists to prevent their wealth from being funneled into political opposition, and ideally into your own political causes (see the Henry Ford foundation), or otherwise coopting them and making them reliant on government contracts. Similarly for the utilities, which create large client classes in poorer areas (both of these, of course, hurt the economy and economic growth long-term). The radicals in the Democrats would be constantly trying to push the party leftwards and would essentially be stuff like the SDS and its many offshoots (including the Weather Underground) on steroids, given how thoroughly infiltrated the Roosevelt administration was by both Trotskyists and Stalinists in OTL and would only be worse in TNO's; they would be useful for being able to defang domestic political opposition, but runs the risk of opening up racial politics. New Deal hardliners would want more cooperation between the government and labor; they would want an expansion of the New Deal to increasingly every aspect of American life, and to stamp out regionalism (this obviously also runs the risk of splitting the party).
First time I am hearing about Roosevelt being called anything else than commie by his oponnents.
Listen to Roosevelt's first inaugural address:
https://www.c-span.org/program/whit...nklin-roosevelt-1933-inaugural-address/139093
There's a very good reason both Hitler and Mussolini praised it. Now, that's not to say Roosevelt was himself a nazi or a fascist, but rather that all forms of managerialism start to experience significant forms of overlap once they scale to a certain point. As for whether he was a commie, read
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin and come to your own conclusion.