Fascist Party (Belhavia)
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Fascist Party | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Andrew Rothson |
| Founded | March 4, 1918 |
| Dissolved | September 29, 1943 |
| Preceded by | Old Right faction of the Federalist Party (indirectly) |
| Succeeded by | National Front (directly) Far Right faction of the 1945 Provisa Convention (indirectly) National Patriotic Union (indirectly) |
| Headquarters | Dakos (formerly) |
| Student wing | Students for Fascism (defunct) |
| Youth wing | Belhavian Fascist Youth (defunct) |
| Ideology | Autarky Corporatism Ultranationalism Jingoism Internal Factions: Galarianism Right-wing populism Radical right |
| Political position | Far right |
| Colors | Solid Brown Greenish-Gray |
| Slogan | "One Society, One Order, One Nation" |
The Fascist Party of Belhavia, also commonly called the Fascists or the Browns (colloquially), is a currently defunct and relatively short-lived historical fascist, far right, and ultranationalist political party in Belhavia in the 3rd Party System, roughly around the first third of the 20th century. It was active from 1918 until 1943, when it was disbanded and criminalized by dictator Zachary Galarian's regime after the party's followers criticized the Autocrat for not being militarist enough abroad and too lenient with dissenters at home during the Galarian years.
Disgruntled political activist and thinker Andrew Rothson traveled the world in the 1910s, including several years in industrial Arthurista. There, he was convinced of the truth of the emerging Arthuristan fascist movement and its theory of fascism. In 1918, he returned to Belhavia and began to proselytize among the Old Right faction of the Federalist Party, steadily gaining support after several wealthy and powerful industrialists joined his movement.
In the 1922 midterms, popular dissatisfaction with the mainstream parties enabled the Fascists to to run several competitive candidates for Senate, winning 4 seats, mostly from the right-wing Federalists. The Federalists reluctantly entered into a coalition majority with them as their opposition Liberals and Democrats merged into the Liberal Democratic Party.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Fascists and right-wing of the Federalists propelled the Grand Colonial Debates of the period's politics. The Fascists never controlled more than 5 Senate seats, and always entered power as a junior coalition partner to the Federalists.
The Fascist Party were among the earliest supporters of General of the Army Zachary Galarian and his nascent ideology and even attempted to recruit him to run for president on their line in 1936, though he declined the offer.
After Galarian's 9/5 coup, the Fascist senators joined his National Front electoral alliance and several prominent fascist politicians and figures were appointed in his regime. As his Autocracy wore on, however, the Fascists became overzealous in cheerleading Galarian's wars abroad in Ulthrannia and elsewhere. In the spring of 1943, several Fascist senators signed a petition to the Supreme Autocrat encouraging him to be more ruthless abroad against the regime's foreign enemies and against malcontents at home. Enraged, Galarian instead arrested the senators and prominent Fascist figures and criminalized the party.
The rest of the party's rank and file was forcefully absorbed by the National Front organization. After the Fall of Galarian in the Stein Coup, the Fascist Party was reaffirmed to be illegal and criminalized by the 1945 Provisa Convention as one of its first acts, declaring the party "a clear and loyal perpetrator and ally of the Galarian regime." Some of its more low-key members joined the Far Right faction of the 1945 Provisa Convention and later the National Patriotic Union Party.