American National Unionist Movement (Mussolini the Iron Caesar)

The American National Unionist Movement (ANUM) was an American fascist and Nazi party formed in 1934 by James Strong, whose distant relative was Josiah Strong, the Evangelical social gospel preacher who preached racialist social Darwinism. Its ideology was called National Unionism, which called for a centralized, totalitarian unitary nation-state of America to be called the "American State" that would eliminate individual states in favor of a single American government, eliminate the "unpatriotic" political party system that ANUM accused of tearing America apart in the American Civil War, establish racial laws across America to support white Americans while disenfranchising blacks, Jews, Hispanics, and aboriginals of rights. It sought to bring Ku Klux Klan members into its ranks. In economics, ANUM called for a "national revolution" to end class conflict by supporting corporatism to create employer and labour union boards to negotiate via state-controlled sectoral corporations. ANUM supported strong state intervention into the economy. ANUM was anti-communist, anti-democratic, anti-federal, and anti-liberal.

ANUM's flag bore similarity to the Confederate battle flag, but James Strong insisted that "National Unionists have adopted a flag to connect to our national and racial past, it is true that the Conderate flag is an inspiration - in a racial sense but I and other of my comrades insisted that our symbol represent a unitary America, that is why there is one star and no stripes. There shall be one American nation led by one race that is undivided. A united nation is essential to survival, not merely "united states". This shall be the flag of a new National Unionist America"

ANUM supported American expansionism, declaring the need to America to conquer all of the Americas. In particular, the need to annex Canada to unite "our Canadian brethren" to America and to conquer Mexico in order to "rid America of the degenerate Indian-Spanish subhumans of the south who stand in the way of a glorious and productive American nation to expand."

ANUM established political contact with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party as well as Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Party. ANUM permitted the concept of German and Italian Americans being able to have links to the Nazi and Fascist parties along with ANUM as a means to consolidate the "modern nationalist state in the minds of the people".