ATLF: Chasing Shadows as it is In Progress (With Apologies to @Mumby)
Obviously Spoilers to whats already happened but you should have gone with that from the acronym.
I will admit there was a tiny, tiny bit of tweaking on my part here from the original work, which is great and should be read. I just felt that the top of the Non-Partisan Ticket could be someone who wouldn't be one of the most boring people in New York History and a Louisiana-Arkansas ticket wouldn't have worked well for Long.
Following the events of the Election Butler cracks down hard on the Growing American Fascist movement with mixed results. The Black Legion goes to ground, JP Morgan and the Du Ponts flee the country but dissent nationwide is high and while the President seeks to nationalize the railroads, develop national infrastructure and reorganize in hundreds of ways the relationship between the US government and its people, there is a weariness that never quite fades away. The Boot-Black Shirts thanks to their often disorganized nature continue to be a problem, as are the KKK and Father Coughlin's Christian Front. Butler wages a back-alley civil war with these forces but as time goes on they look more and more towards the forces of International Fascism to gain aid. In 1936 both sides saw major enlistments for the Spanish Civil War, causing the rugged valleys of Spain to become an early instance of the Second American Civil War as well as the Great Patriotic War. Following the 1937 Anglo-German Non-Aggression Pact these forces only continue to grow. Before his premature death in Office President Butler had begun to recognize the dangers of the Isolationism that had America stand by as De La Roque took power in France and the Beaverbrook Government's new tack in foreign policy.
Unfortunately Butler's death closed any reevaluation and President Norris sought only to secure the first smooth transition of power in a Decade from one Administration to the next in 1940. The Libertarian Party embraced the Domestic focus of Daniel Hoan over the more internationalist views of those who were returning from Spain. The Soviet-German conquests of Eastern Europe almost broke the Libertarian Coalition asunder but eventually President Hoan was able to contain the strife, if at what would soon be revealed to be a high cost. The Stand Down of the Victory Legion as part of the political settlement for Neutrality in 1941, as well as slim military and naval budgets going back long before the March on Washington meant that in 1942 the United States government was woefully unprepared for the American Pronunciamiento of July 4th 1942. The Fascist Underground, having spent years in the shadows burst out again on the scene, now with the support of the reactionary heart of the United States Army. Within Days Fast convoys of German, Italian and French Volunteer Divisions were landing in Charleston and Boston was under attack from French Carrier Planes. Eugene Talmadge the rabidly violent would-be American Fuhrer oversaw forces of several of the American Far Right organizations, as well as further groups that flocked to his banner when the revolt started. The Fascist Underground's intelligence service, under the dynamic leadership of "Wild Bill" Donovan had planned well and thousands of Victory Legion Volunteers were caught at home and murdered in the first day of the war. By 1943 the situation seemed desperate as President Hoan held out in Washington even as National Front forces stood as close as Baltimore in the North and Erwin Rommel and his Panzer Korps Dixie at Manassas in the South.
1944 would see great battles and sieges from Chicago and St. Louis to Boston-Charlestown and in Philadelphia, as Dwight Eisenhower dueled George Patton for the first capital of the US. Secretary of State James P. Cannon died in a mysterious plane crash trying to reach London, forever assumed thereafter to have been the actions of Soviet Intelligence due to Stalin's Paranoia of the Libertarian Party's Anti-COMINTERN line. By November, even as the tide seemed to turn in many places as Victory Legion and US Volunteer Regiments fought tooth and nail on a dozen fronts and Constitutional Partisan Brigades operated in Fascist occupied territory, President Hoan was forced to evacuate to Sacramento. Hopes for International Fascism of Japanese involvement were washed away when the now Western Government and Democratic-Republican Secretary of State Robert A. Taft traded Guam and agreed to transfer ownership of one of the two American Naval Bases on Luzon in the Independent Philippines to Tokyo. Taft would partake in the legalities of the election that year but with no intention of giving up on his work of international appeals for the administration. A special act by congress this year would suspend the Electoral College and mandate that all EC votes go to the winner of the popular vote, an important move in the face of millions of Americans driven into refugee status in the Mountain and Pacific Wests.
But 1945 would see things turn. In Britain the Beaverbrook Government collapsed on itself and the radical government of Ernest Bevin came to power and the swing of the British Government to American support began to build. In June Adolph Hitler suffered a seizure that saw him fall into a Coma and all hell broke loose as various Nazi leaders sought to secure singular power behind the debilitated throne. Two months later the last major Fascist forces West of the Mississippi river were forced to surrender after the United States Navy's Submarine service successfully blockaded the Italo-American 5th Army in Houston. And then as a year end surprise The Chief, Eugene Talmadge died of acute Liver Failure. His Chief of Staff, Alvin Owsley had hoped for a smooth transition of power but his decision to retain the firey Father Coughlin as his Secretary of Information and Education triggered a faultline eruption in the National Front. While the Front could easily come together in the name of the Special Commands who traveled the country and did their nightmarish work of pogroms, lynchings and massacres of Black, Jewish, Hispanic, and Asian populations, there was just too much of a divide between Catholic Fascists and those Fascists who were keen to start piling Catholics into mass graves as well. In the two weeks of bloodletting that followed as the Anti-Papist Salvation Committee sought to wrest control away from Owsley the National Front's frontlines began to mutiny and buckle. The Constitutional Forces were swift to take advantage of their luck and by the end of it had finally broken through the siege lines and provided overland relief to the broken horror of the Chicago Defenses.
Eighteen more months of bloodshed followed the relief of Chicago. In 1946 the French regime collapsed, and the British Empire entered the war, with Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Indian Expeditionary Forces arriving in the United States, helping build momentum going forward. In 1947 Stalin, finally chose to bring the curtain down and launched a surprise attack on the German forces in the East, utterly demolishing them and seeing another coup in Berlin as Goering, fresh off his abolition of the SS was forced to flee for his life. The German Junta of Wehrmacht Generals that followed him would seek peace in the West. It wouldn't come but some of the last campaigns of the National Front's forces would be engaging with German forces pulling out and choosing to fight them over their desertions. By October Major combat operations were over in the US as Owsley boarded a submarine bound for Neutral South Africa where he would live out his life in exile. In Europe the New Authoritarian Regimes in France and Italy would enter the Reich partly as saviors and partly as conquerors, securing an arc Austria and Bavaria and everything West of the Rhine. The Soviets would get the rest.
America would be transformed by the Holocaust that a sizeable portion of the country had supported and the war they had triggered to do it, aware that it couldn't retreat back into isolationism but also unsure of itself and its mission. Anti-Colonialism though would find itself a bi-partisan and secure front for looking out at the world, and a sense of never-again preparedness. It would take decades to rebuild and to begin the process of healing, all the same. Owsley would escape but thousands of other willing participants would face fair trials and justice. Japan, her puppet regime in China and the Neo-Fascists regimes in Paris, Madrid, Rome, Budapest, Bucharest, Athens, and Belgrade would find common cause in the Anti-Anglo-Anti-Comintern Pact of 1948 and in trying to hold down their empires by brute force. Britain on the other hand sought to create the Commonwealth Community of "equal" partners and maintain its dreams of controlling the world through the balance of power for another two generations, before one would end peacefully (The Community) and one would end in tears (in Bangkok). The Soviet attention would shift now, towards the instability of China and the threat of Japan, but maintaining a leery eye towards the Rhine and the Alps, as well as towards the German Socialist Republic it had installed in Berlin and is other regimes in Prague, Warsaw, and Helsinki and hopes of more peaceful COMINTERN triumphs. But, least for the time being the world was done with Great Wars. And as science moved forward, preventing one would soon become a major goal of all such governments.
1933-1935: Huey P. Long / vacant (Democratic)
1932: Alfred E. Smith (Democratic), Herbert C. Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1935-1937: Huey P. Long / vacant (Democratic, later Unionist), Smedley D. Butler (Independent) [As Secretary of General Affairs]
1937-1940: Smedley D. Butler / George W. Norris (Independent Anti-Capitalist, Later Libertarian)
1936: Upton B. Sinclair, Jr. (Independent Anti-Capitalist), Robert E. Wood / Eugene Talmadge (Non-Partisan), Huey P. Long / William Langer (Unionist)
1937: Federal Reorganization Act of 1937 Abolishes office of Secretary of General Affairs, Establishes Independent Attorney General, National Comptroller
1940-1941: George W. Norris / vacant (Libertarian)
1941-1949: Daniel W. Hoan / Rexford Tugwell (Libertarian)
1940: Robert A. Taft / William B. Bankhead (Democratic-Republican), Charles A. Lindbergh / Hamilton Fish III (Homeland League)
1944: Robert A. Taft / Alben W. Barkley (Democratic-Republican)
1942-1945: Eugene Talmadge (National Front)
1945-1947: Alvin M. Owsley (National Front)
1945: George Van Horn Mosley-Gerald B. Winrod (Anti-Coughlinite National Front) [As Salvation Committee Co-Chairs]
1949-1953: Edward K. Barsky / Claude D. Pepper (Libertarian)
1948: Walter Krueger / Earl Warren (Democratic-Republican)
1953-1957: Henry A. Wallace / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Democratic-Republican)
1952: Edward K. Barsky / Claude D. Pepper (Libertarian)
1957-1961: Adlai E. Stevenson II / Walter P. Reuther (Libertarian)
1956: Henry A. Wallace / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Democratic-Republican)
1961-1963: Adlai E. Stevenson II / Willa B. Brown (Libertarian)
1960: Robert F. Kennedy / Albert A. Gore (Democratic-Republican)
1963-1965: Willa B. Brown / vacant (Libertarian)
1965-1973: Willa B. Brown / Robert C. D. Mitchum (Libertarian)
1964: William W. Scranton / Stuart W. Symington, Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
1968: Robert F. Kennedy / John B. Connolly, Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
1973-1981: Lauren Bacall / Edward I. Koch (Democratic-Republican)
1972: Eugene J. McCarthy / Benjamin M. Spock (Libertarian)
1976: Cesar E. Chavez / Adlai E. Stevenson III (Libertarian)