YMMV / The Ruins of an American Party System

• Complete Monster: William Dudley Pelley is the leader of the Silver Legion, a far-right extremist paramilitary that is responsible for numerous assassination attempts against American politicians and public figures. When President Floyd Olson declares all his organizations illegal, Pelley assembles his hardcore believers at Galahad College, calling for a preemptive strike against the state of North Carolina. In doing so, Pelley orders the Silver Shirts to assault police stations and kidnap civilians across the city to hold them as hostages. When Galahad College is surrounded by the National Guard forces, Pelley proclaims that he is the only true Messiah and that he will not negotiate the release of prisoners unless the United States government agrees to segregate the Jews, burn down the large metropolises and abolish the secular Constitution. When his demands are not met, Pelley declares that he and his flock would rather die in flames than live under the reign of Anti-Christ and provokes shooting from the soldiers. Falling down from gunshot wounds, Pelley drops his lit lamp at gasoline oil splashes, setting the whole building with hostages and his followers on fire. Orchestrating the horrible murder of 249 innocent victims in one day, as well as causing 144 deaths by the hands of the Silver Legion elsewhere, Pelley is remembered as the single most evil person in history by the American people.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Richard Nixon, due to his spy fiction storyline.
• Memetic Badass: FBI Special Agent Richard Nixon.
  • For some weird reason Spiro Agnew has become this even though he has yet to make an appearence in the TL.