01-24-2017, 12:06 AM
If you are thinking of a real fascist to rule America, I would have picked Indiana Grand Dragon David Curtiss Stephenson. Pelley would have been a good choice for his VP... grist for a novel in which the Axis Powers win because Germany remains a democracy and Japan becomes democratic during the 1930s. I'm giving Vichy figures control of France and the British Union of Fascists control of Britain at the start of the war... and Josef Stalin is a true bad guy who gets mauled badly in India, where the British royal family has gone with the invitation of Mohandas Gandhi.
Britain and France change sides early in the wake of the catastrophic defeat at Dunkirk, where German U-boats prevent any escape. Stalin finds himself in a hopeless position after the smashing defeat at Stalingrad. He and some top generals try to flea to America across the Arctic Ocean, only to disappear without a trace until much later.
One reason for the Axis victory: the Germans and their allies get the good Jewish scientists instead of killing them or compelling them to flee.
Britain and France change sides early in the wake of the catastrophic defeat at Dunkirk, where German U-boats prevent any escape. Stalin finds himself in a hopeless position after the smashing defeat at Stalingrad. He and some top generals try to flea to America across the Arctic Ocean, only to disappear without a trace until much later.
One reason for the Axis victory: the Germans and their allies get the good Jewish scientists instead of killing them or compelling them to flee.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.