When was America closest to fascism? Could America ever become fully fascist?

A lot of fascist groups self identify as so m8.

You gonna tell them that they don't exist?

Also why is nobody mentioning Grant?

we've been sliding into fascism since 9/11, and probably before then too.

the elections in congress are just for show, mostly.

>FDR

If you mean by the fact that there was a legitimate conspiracy to depose FDR and install a fascist government in the US because they thought he was going to turn the country communist.

He was granted powers that he wouldn't normally have during peacetime. Of course he'll be the closest thing to Fascism.

Jackson was an autocrat but he was also deeply committed to liberalism, there is no way he can be called fascist.

Probably FDR. He used the technology of his day to create a cult of personality that no other president could match, not even Reagan. Single party control of the legislature, subservient judiciary, extreme government cooperation and oversight with private industry, segregation of minority communities and imprisonment of scapegoats, the whole nine yards. And, with four successful elections, he was truly president for life.

It would be hard for America to become fascist. Fascism usually rests upon nationalism, but nationalism in America is inherently liberal, at least in its current state.

I've had fascists argue that the USA was closest to fascist and national socialist principles in its early days

According to the mainstream media the US has been there for almost a year now.

Business plot (assuming it wasn't just a meme). And only if it was an Italian style fascism that favoured culture over race. If it was wehraboo style fascism then African Americans would have to somehow die overnight.

Nice comparison faggot.

Lincoln, but that's really stretching it.

Huey Long probably had the best shot at creating a semi-authoritarian regime in the United States. His advanced patronage system let him trounce the political rules in Louisiana, and he had the drive and experience to expand that system to the whole nation if he was elected. Considering his innate charisma and skill, and the Great Depression, I think it would be easy for him to get a third term, and essentially make congress a meme. However, anything like an obvious power grab wouldn't work. At best, he could be an American Augustus, but nobody could ever openly end Democracy in the US.

>tfw no timeline where FDR is President of the United States and Huey Long is President of the Confederate States, the two have a bitter rivalry with one another, but are forced to work together to confront the threat of Nazi Germany.

Probably the early Cold War years were the closest we've come: national unity and militarism at the expense of human rights and respect for diversity.

Like Huey P. Long's Louisiana?

I considered FDR too because he acted like a dictator, but he would've probably went commie. He admired Stalin too much.

>ywn be able to shake hands with a towering statue of LONG BOY, once-and-future President Par Excellence.

The business-plot was pretty far from fascism imo. Fascists come to power through grass-roots populist movements, those behind the business plot were oligarchs who wanted to serve corporate interests.

If the coup had succeeded America would look more like Singapore then Nazi Germany.

Nice thought-terminating cliche, but the Trump administration actually is pretty close to fascist all things considered.

to appropriate the language of Harvard scholar recipients: America been fascist

>democracy

lol

I only that I can respect Mussolini more than Drumpf, very much so actually.

*I know only

>assuming it wasn't just a meme
It was. A combination of disgruntled grumbling about that damn commie FDR combined with the wild schemes of a huckster all told to a commie who had pretty much hated the government/capitalist class for decades. It was on the level of militia men or commies who want to "smash the state" only with richer people.

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>When was America closest to fascism?
FDR's New Deal which was actually inspired by Fascist economic policies.