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* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:Huey Long]] serves as this to [[spoiler:President Olson]].
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* BigBad:
** Huey Long is almost certainly one of these. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
** The Agent Nixon storyline has "the Prophet" (aka [[spoiler: George Van Horn Moseley]]), the leader of the revived Silver Legion, behind numerous domestic terrorist attack on US government holdings. [[spoiler: And manipulating the Germans and Soviets into war.]]
** Huey Long is almost certainly one of these. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
** The Agent Nixon storyline has "the Prophet" (aka [[spoiler: George Van Horn Moseley]]), the leader of the revived Silver Legion, behind numerous domestic terrorist attack on US government holdings. [[spoiler: And manipulating the Germans and Soviets into war.]]
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* BigBad:
** Huey Long is almost certainly one of these. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
**BigBad: The Agent Nixon storyline has "the Prophet" (aka [[spoiler: George Van Horn Moseley]]), the leader of the revived Silver Legion, behind numerous domestic terrorist attack on US government holdings. [[spoiler: And manipulating the Germans and Soviets into war.]]
** Huey Long is almost certainly one of these. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Huey Long is this to the Olson Administration. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
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** Huey Long is almost certainly one of these. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, RealityEnsues, and a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
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** Huey Long is almost certainly one of these. As Floyd Olson's Attorney General, he arranged the extrajudicial killings of many of Olson's rivals. He uses his influence to extend a massively corrupt political machine throughout the South, and consistently works to obstruct civil rights legislation. By part 3, however, RealityEnsues, and a lot of his power base is eroded by other political factions and his own ailments.
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** Played straight in the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero anti-union]] agenda foward, but the 1946 midterm election for the House of Representatives ends with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows different parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance, in the South the Republicans, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the Americans, Socialists, Communists, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant.]]
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** Played straight in the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero anti-union]] agenda foward, forward, but the 1946 midterm election for the House of Representatives ends with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows different parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance, in the South the Republicans, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the Americans, Socialists, Communists, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant.]]
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* TheRepublic: After all the chaos of the 20s and 30s, the United States had become by the 1940s a properous, stable and foward-thinking nation with a mostly functional multi-party system.
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* TheRepublic: After all the chaos of the 20s and 30s, the United States had become by the 1940s a properous, stable and foward-thinking forward-thinking nation with a mostly functional multi-party system.
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: President Andrew Mellon goes [[TheFundamentalist full steam ahead with this]]. Suffice to say it [[CaptainObvious doesn't work]].
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: President Andrew Mellon goes [[TheFundamentalist full steam ahead with this]]. Suffice to say it [[CaptainObvious doesn't work]].work.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Roy Cohn who here is a Radical Progressive, former Mayor of [[BigApplesauce New York City]] and seeminly openly gay.
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* TVDocumentary: One is done about Robert Taft's life in the future.
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* TVDocumentary: One is done about [[spoiler:President]] Robert Taft's life in the future.
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* TVDocumentary: One is done about [[spoiler:President]] Robert Taft's life in the future.
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* TVDocumentary: One is done about [[spoiler:President]] Robert Taft's life in the future.
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* StrawmanPolitical: The fictional reviewers of a documentary about Robert Taft's life where they accused it of being socialist or right-wing propaganda, while the most sensible reviews just say it's average.
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* TVDocumentary: One is done about [[spoiler:President]] Robert Taft's life in the future.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: InUniverse, Huey Long. A documentary piece set decades after his death show how the country either remembers him as a white supremacist and tyrant, or a champion of civil rights and the common man.
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** Robert Taft is both President Personable (for supporting civil rights) and President Iron (for his staunch libertarian viewpoints).
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** The situation in India in turn pulls British forces and resources away from resolving the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict as peacefully as possible, which combined with the Soviets' outreach causes the situation to deteriorate even further.
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* DifferentStatesOfAmerica: Alaska is deemed too sparsely inhabited to become a state. Puerto Rico, on the other hand ''is'' elevated to statehood.
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** The incredibly complicated political setup of the 1946 midterms (brought about by fusion ballots and deep idealogical divides in all the parties), results in factions from the Republicans, Progressives, American Party, Socialists, and People's Coalition coming together to form a centrist grand coalition in the House of Representatives to oppose the more radical elements on both the left and right from possibly taking power.
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* LesserOfTwoEvils: Per WordOfGod, this is Robert Taft's view on the American Party. He disagrees with them on most things, but he despises the Commonwealth Party personally and politically, so if it comes to a choice between the two of them, he'd go with the AP.
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** Played straight on the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-union]] agenda foward, but the 1946 midterm election for the House of Representatives ends with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance,in the South the Republican, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the American, Socialist, Communist, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant.]]
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** Played straight on in the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero anti-union]] agenda foward, but the 1946 midterm election for the House of Representatives ends with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows different parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance,in instance, in the South the Republican, Republicans, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the American, Socialist, Communist, Americans, Socialists, Communists, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant.]]
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** Played straight on the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-union]] agenda foward, in the 1944 midterm election for the House Representatives end with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance,in the South the Republican, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the American, Socialist, Communist, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant]]
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** Played straight on the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-union]] agenda foward, in but the 1944 1946 midterm election for the House of Representatives end ends with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance,in the South the Republican, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the American, Socialist, Communist, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant]]remnant.]]
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** Played straight on the 1940s. Not only is President [[spoiler:Robert Taft]] incapable of pushing his [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-union]] agenda foward, in the 1944 midterm election for the House Representatives end with [[spoiler:''both'' the Progressives and the Republicans winning a majority[[note]]this is due to ballot fusion, which allows parties to run for office with the same candidate. For instance,in the South the Republican, Progressives and Socialists ran the same candidate in order to not split the Black vote[[/note]], with large amounts of seats going to the American, Socialist, Communist, People's Coaltion and the Commonwealth remnant]]
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** After [[spoiler: the Soviets' sweeping conquest of Europe]], a new wave of anti-Communism hits the US, leading to a surge of support of the AP.
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** After [[spoiler: the Soviets' sweeping conquest of Europe]], a new wave of anti-Communism hits the US, leading to a surge of support of the AP. However, this ends up subverted, as by the mid-40s, there are more concerns about ''right-wing'' extremists than leftists, which the Communist-friendly politicians are ironically taking advantage of.
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*** The Progressive-Farmer-Labor Party, which itself is a merger between the real life Non-Partisan League and the Farmer Labor Party, is the leader of the Great Recovery Coalition, [[spoiler: initially led by Olson and then led by [=LaGuardia=] after his death]], but the party is being torn in two between a moderate faction that is becoming friendly with the Republicans and the Socialist-leaning Radical faction, which feels that [=LaGuardia=] [[note]] who was initially a moderate and defected to the radical wing for political expediency [[/note]] has sold them out.
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*** The Progressive-Farmer-Labor Party, which itself is a merger between the real life Non-Partisan League and the Farmer Labor Party, is the leader of the Great Recovery Coalition, [[spoiler: initially led by Olson and then led by [=LaGuardia=] after his death]], but the party is being torn in two between a moderate faction that is becoming friendly with the Republicans and the Socialist-leaning Radical faction, which feels that [=LaGuardia=] [[note]] who was initially a moderate and defected to the radical wing for political expediency [[/note]] has sold them out. By the 40s, the radicals are becoming predominant, much to the chagrin of the moderates.
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*** The Commonwealth Party, a DeepSouth party led by Huey Long and whose economic policies are Long's "Share Our Wealth" on steroids, and was one of the key players in the Coalition. However it's increasingly challenged from the right by the American Party, for [[NoTrueScotsman not being conservative enough]].
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*** The Commonwealth Party, a DeepSouth party led by Huey Long and whose economic policies are Long's "Share Our Wealth" on steroids, and was one of the key players in the Coalition. However it's increasingly challenged from the right by the American Party, for [[NoTrueScotsman not being conservative enough]]. Eventually, the divide between the AP friendly and more left-leaning factions causes the party to collapse.
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** In a non-American example, it's noted that Gandhi's peaceful and calming leadership is the only thing keeping the Indian independence movement from breaking out into violence between its Communist wing and its various religious-based nationalist groups.
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** In a non-American example, it's noted that Gandhi's peaceful and calming leadership is the only thing keeping the Indian independence movement from breaking out into violence between its Communist wing and its various religious-based nationalist groups. [[spoiler: When he dies, civil war breaks out.]]
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** After [[spoiler: Gandhi's assassination]], tensions in India boil over, leading to open conflict between the British and their loyalists, Hindu and Muslim nationalists, and Communist revolutionaries.
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** As noted above, the German Civil War is a three-way affair.
** The Indian Civil War is even more complicated. On the surface, it's the British and their loyalists vs Hindu nationalists vs Muslim nationalists vs the Communists. However, both nationalist groups are further divided into factions that are willing to work with each other against the Communists, and those who are willing to work with the Communists against the British. And then there are the maharajas, who are playing the field between the British and both sets of nationalists against the Communists.
** As noted above, the German Civil War is a three-way affair.
** The Indian Civil War is even more complicated. On the surface, it's the British and their loyalists vs Hindu nationalists vs Muslim nationalists vs the Communists. However, both nationalist groups are further divided into factions that are willing to work with each other against the Communists, and those who are willing to work with the Communists against the British. And then there are the maharajas, who are playing the field between the British and both sets of nationalists against the Communists.
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* GovernmentInExile: The Kingdom of Italy is forced to flee the mainland for Sardinia after [[spoiler: the Soviet invasion and conquest]].
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* GovernmentInExile: GovernmentInExile:
** The Kingdom of Italy is forced to flee the mainland for Sardinia after [[spoiler: the Soviet invasion andconquest]].conquest]].
** For a given definition of "government", the event above also forces the Catholic Church to relocate its headquarters to Portugal.
** The Kingdom of Italy is forced to flee the mainland for Sardinia after [[spoiler: the Soviet invasion and
** For a given definition of "government", the event above also forces the Catholic Church to relocate its headquarters to Portugal.
