More or less, yeah. Summer of 1935 is really important because a lot changes, but we can only cover so many facets of this war in a single chapter. There are also camps meant for people to be slaves in, and camps where Hoover just wants to torture/kill you because he suspects you are gay and communist.
And of course, there’s the ultimate irony, which is that Morgan and co. actually dodged a bullet with Roosevelt’s death and Smith’s ascension to the Presidency— and they dramatically blew it by overthrowing him, when otherwise they could live in peace as the richest people on earth.
The Republic is not a socialist state. Businesses aligned with the Smith Administration and even the Farmer-Labor nucleus in the Midwest are naturally going to make a lot of money from the war. Even the conservative GOP that seemingly wants Smith hanged on a lamppost is mostly devoted to winning the war at all costs.
It’s fun to imagine somebody living in a time, like 2024, when almost all (but not all) of the people that lived through this are dead, and trying to go back and make sense of the whole thing.
