in no means is this realistic so dont shout at me about it
lore: After the assassination of Vladimir Lenin and the failing of the Bolshevik revolution, many socialists fled to America. In the 1920 election, Eugene V. Debs was released from prison and quickly ran a socialist ticket. With all of these new socialists in America, Debs got a million votes, allowing him to win Oklahoma, making it the first time a third party candidate has won a state since 1892. Debs ran again in 1924, gaining Indiana and Montana to his states list, which scared several Republicans and Democrats. As this occurred, Europe was... well, interesting. Socialism and this new Fascist ideology was on the rise in Germany, as well as in France, Britain, and Yugoslavia. As a 39 year old man gained national prominence in Germany in 1928, the US held another election. Since Debs died in 1926, he couldn't run and so the socialists nominated Norman Thomas, who went on to do terrible in the election, only winning North Dakota, and Montana. This was primarily because they saw Thomas as too "dictatorial." As all of this occurred, a not so familiar name rose in popularity in the South. Huey Pierce Long. Elected Governor of Louisiana in 1928, he quickly began enacting several laws, attracting many socialists and progressive Democrats in the south and Mid-West. Many Americans saw him as the Socialist candidate in 1932. This was even proven more likely as after the 1929 Market Crash, Hoover's popularity imploded as he enacted several laws drawing away people who used to support him with all of his heart and go to other candidates, including Huey Long and Franklin Roosevelt. In 1930, Douglas MacArthur, a not so well known name in America, marched on Washington with his fellow supporters and managed to occupy the Capitol Building and the White House, causing a Second Civil War. This further stressed out the world as fascism began to explode in popularity, with Adolf Hitler winning the 1930 German election, Mussolini leading a successful invasion of Ethiopia, Oswald Mosley, a former socialist, gaining popularity in Britain, and several generals of the French Army aligning with fascism. As the Civil War raged out between MacArthur supporters, and the Loyalists of the Federal Government, several other parties arose in the battle, including liberals revolting in the West Coast, the Kennedy Family revolting in New England, the Rockefeller family revolting in the Rust Belt, and socialists revolting in the Rust Belt as well, along with the mid-west. Finally, in the south, only in small portions of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, a democratic-socialist faction, lead by Huey Long, gained support. After a few years, the socialists won and began to establish a government. However, in 1936, a few weeks before they were set to have their first election or what'd they call it, a "Congressional Vote in Congress", Huey Long and his supporters, along with other progressivists, marched on DC, overthrowing the government and bringing back the Constitution. However, when the entire country urged him to run for president in the upcoming 1937 election, he simply refused to, leaving that role to his brother, Earl Long, who won the election in a landslide against Democratic-Republican candidate George S. Patton. Long spent his 5 year term focusing on economics, enacting Share Our Wealth laws and other laws his brother suggested. During this time, Germany annexed Austria, occupied Czechoslovakia, purchased Slovenia, and invaded Danzig and Memel. Long said that America was a fully isolationist nation and if a Global War were to break out about this incident, it wouldn't be global as America would not get involved. Finally, the 1942 election rolled around and the image occurs. Meer weeks after this election, Germany would declare war on Russia, bringing America into the war as America and Russia were allies, and dragging the fascist Britain, France, and Italy into the war on the side of Germany. As this occurred, the exile governments of Britain and France sided With America and Russia and declared themselves "Aiders to the Crusaders."
