American Federation

The American Federation, sometimes referred to as AmFed, was an unrecognized American republic that temporarily replaced the United States of America between 2018 and 2021, when Luke Nichols and his breakaway party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The largest cities of the United States opposed the unjust rule of the AmFed while it was most popular in rural areas. It was also the state that waged a war against the American Iron Front as it sought to restore the United States to power in an event that is sometimes referred to as the Second American Civil War. The Second American Republic referred to the claim that AmFed was the successor of the United States of America. The AmFed ended in 2021, after only two and a half years, in the aftermath of the attack on Washington, D.C. and the failed coup by Luke Nichols loyalists. 
The AmFed was established in the summer of 2018 by a collaboration of Nichols-supported Democratic and Republican governors, state legislatures, and congresspeople. The economy of the Federation was designed to be heavily dependent on fossil fuels. The regime was also convinced that white supremacy was threatened by the November 2020 election of Republican Jack Boyer to the U.S. presidency on a platform that opposed the fascist policies of Nichols. In his speech after the midterm victories of the Nichols regime, he described its ideology as centrally based around the idea that "we are tired of being doormats to invaders... now, it's time to be warriors."
After Nichols took office in January 2017, a provisional Federation government was initially drawn up to be implemented at the conclusion of the 2018 midterms. It was considered illegal by the United States government, and were considered by many Americans to be traitors. The new Federation Congress was formed out of the bulk of bipartisan supporters of Nichols as before the United States was temporarily suspended and its Congress had been dissolved, the new Congress was installed in its place. 
The Second American Civil War began on January 6th and concluded on January 13th, 2021, when Washington, D.C. was attacked by rogue agents of the National Intelligence Department. No foreign governments recognized the Federation as an independent country and the nation was largely isolated from the world economy while the conflict raged on. The week of the attacks, many Congressional and government officials had been killed in the attacks and were adjourned sine die, which effectively ended the Federation Congress as a legislative body. Nearly all Federation armed forces had surrendered by the time the United States was restored. 
After the war and removal of Nichols from the presidency, the United States was slowly restored to full capacity after several new amendments to the Constitution were added to prevent the occurrence of a new Nichols in the future. Missed Opportunity mythology, an idealized view that the Federation fought valiantly for a just cause emerged sometime later but were consistently put down. 
Luke Nichols was elected President of the United States in November 2016, Nichols loyalists in both the Democratic and Republican parties began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. His election has been the subject of several studies which state that his election was due to the economic anxiety caused by the world's shift away from fossil fuels, suspicion of greater access of non-white Americans to positions of power, and the proliferation of several internet conspiracy theories. Nichols became dictator by merging the powers of the legislature and executive branches. The 2018 American mid-term election confirmed his role as Chief Executive of the United States. Power was centralized in Nichols' person, and his word became the highest law. The government was not a coordinated, cooperating body, but rather a collection of factions struggling to amass power, including the Civil Service and Armed Forces. The return to economic stability boosted the regime's popularity. America under Nichols made increasingly defensive posturing against perceived enemy states. Nichols had plans to launch an assault on various nation-states that would have resulted in a World War III event had the regime not folded in 2021.
Racism was central ideological features of the regime despite being officially denounced by the Nichols administration. The prevailing narrative of the "European-descended American peoples" considered white people to be superior to all other races and ethnicities. The regime had plans to incarcerate dissidents and other subversives but these plans were not implemented before the regime folded. The Department of Public Policy disseminated propaganda films, organized mass rallies, and helped foster a pervasive cult of personality around Luke Nichols to influence public opinion. The government under Nichols curtailed artistic expression, promoted specific art forms, and banned or discouraged others. The regime engaged in genocide, mass murder, and large-scale forced labor and these became hallmarks. 
Nichols' refusal to adjust his plans resulted in massive destruction of German infrastructure and additional deaths in the closing months of the regime's reign. The Allies initiated a campaign that systematically sought to alter the American story and wield it to benefit a handful of rich benefactors. After the fall of AmFed, the restored United States of America initiated a policy of de-Nicholsification and put many of the surviving Nichols administration including Luke Nichols himself on trial for crimes against humanity at the International Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. 
== The Tomorrow Party ==
The Tomorrow Party grew out of the bipartisan Tomorrow Caucus which had members of the Democratic and Republican parties as members. It was created by Luke Nichols as the political expression of what became known as Nicholsian fascism. The party ruled the American Federation from 2018 when fascists took power during the midterm election of that year until the fall of the Nichols regime in 2021, when Nichols was removed from office by a conviction of crimes committed against the state by the newly reconstituted U.S. Senate. It was dissolved in its entirety at the conclusion of the first term of Luke Nichols.
The Tomorrow Party was rooted in American nationalism and the desire to restore and expand American territories, which American fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay. American fascists claimed that modern America was the heir to ancient Greece and Rome and its legacy and historically supported the creation of an American Empire to provide "Elbow Room" for colonization by American settlers and to establish control over the entire world and beyond. The party also supported several social conservative stances. They promoted an anti-capitalist corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy. This economic system intended to resolve class conflict through collaboration between the classes. Moreover, the TP strongly advocated for autarky.
American fascism, similarly to German and Italian fascism, opposed capitalism and liberalism, but did not seek a reactionary restoration of the pre-French Revolutionary world, which it considered to have been flawed, and not in line with a forward-thinking direction on policy. It was opposed to Marxist socialism in its purest form, despite Giovanni Gentile's fascist philosophy's origins being rooted in Marxism, because of its typical opposition to nationalism, but was also opposed to the reactionary conservatism developed by Joseph de Maistre. It believed the success of American nationalism required respect for tradition and a clear sense of a shared past among the American people alongside a commitment to a modernized America, as well as a solid belief that America was destined to become a hegemonic power in the world.
The Tomorrow Party is the only party whose formation is now explicitly banned by the U.S. Constitution: "It shall be forbidden to reorganize, under any form whatsoever, the dissolved Tomorrow Party."
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