wait, wouldn't it be "SCOTCS"? my headcanon is that the sainted Mitchel administration (besides authorizing camps for Red and then butternut "politicals," rigging elections and gleefully daring anyone to do something about it each time) also enthusiastically packed the Court and let several others stand vacant: that fits with the Bruning, Schelicher, and Papen parallels and would also let Featherston give an
18 Brumaire speech mocking the Whigs and R-Ls for basically signing their own warrants without him even knowing
but good point on the CS military, Hitler loved to have all the branches fighting, split them arbitrarily, and then added a parallel to each unit in the SS for double the fun: of course we also have Doylistically maximize it against the North to let it be able to chew through all Ohio, reach Baltimore and Pittsburgh, AND pin down the Feds from Delaware to California with a fraction of the population
thing is there's much less precedent for a
Leader Principle in the US South than post-WWI Germany: my TL-191 notes say there's always been enormous tension between 1. the Whig need for a hierarchy of deferral, for a party full of forelock-tuggers, snitches, clock-watchers, ladder-climbers, and lapdogs, and 2. the Cavalier, Lowland plantation, AND Appalachian traditions that "a man's farm is his castle," that every (White, landowning, married) man is a sovereign with no king or boss and the right to enforce it personally with his rifle
so maybe it's no surprise the Snake's going to be an unmarried Father of the Nation, a pretend redneck, an antisocialist carefully balancing the subsidies to every state, a Social Darwinist damning the civilian and military elite, a law-and-order mobster, an unchurched intercessor between the nation and the Creator, a White Supremacist savvy enough to arm the more eccentric Black radicals against the Communists, a straight-edge tweaker, a philistine flirting with private bohemianism