Also, yes, without the New Deal, USA would very quickly start going communist.
Citation needed.
And with the New Deal, the business's response was to plot to overthrow FDR and establish a fascist dictatorship. A Business Plot, if you will.
The "Business Plot" to the extent you're describing it has
never been substantiated. Ever. Nobody was prosecuted, one person was questioned, and it all amounted to nothing. Here's a contemporary
New York Times article regarding the alleged incident. From the wikipedia article (citing the committee report) "Those implicated in the plot by Butler all denied any involvement. MacGuire was the only figure identified by Butler who testified before the committee. Others Butler accused were not called to appear to testify because the "committee has had no evidence before it that would in the slightest degree warrant calling before it such men ... The committee will not take cognizance of names brought into testimony which constitute mere hearsay."
Finally, "While historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated by a Wall Street bond salesman who discussed it with Butler." Butler was a leftist by the way.
So we only have evidence of two people, one bond salesman and one businessman, who, in a drunken state, discussed a potential coup.
Don't forget the recession of 1937, either.
During which there was no evidence of any extremism taking hold.
Presidential Election 1932:
Democratic Party: 57.41%
Republican Party: 39.65%
Socialist Party: 2.23%
Communist Party: 0.26%
Prohibition Party (one-issue party seeking reinstatement of prohibition): 0.21%
Liberty Party (one-issue party seeking a silver/gold standard for currency): 0.13%
Socialist-Labor Party: 0.09%
Farmer-Labor Party (single-issue farmer price and wage fixing party): 0.02%
Total: 2.58% combining all Socialist or Communist parties. No Fascists. Only 100,000 Communist votes out of 39,800,000 voters.
Presidential Election 1936:
Democratic Party: 60.8%
Republican Party: 36.54%
Union Party (only thing close to Fascism, more wanting a populist New Deal than anything else): 1.95%
Socialist Party: 0.41%
Communist Party: 0.17%
Prohibition Party: 0.08%
Socialist-Labor Party: 0.03%
Total: Even taking the Union Party to be "Fascist" that's 1.95% for them, 0.61% for leftists, total 2.56% for all non-centrists.
Presidential Election 1940:
Democratic Party: 54.74%
Republican Party: 44.78%
Socialist Party: 0.23%
Prohibition Party: 0.12%
Communist Party: 0.10%
Socialist-Labor Party: 0.03%
Total: "Fascists" don't even register again. 0.36% for leftists.
See a trend here? If Paradox wants to create wild and unrealistic scenarios, that's their business, but don't pretend any of this was actually plausible.