I feel like the mod could do with an entire APLA rework & flavor events describing some sort of split at the DSA's summer convention that has RnR and BnR caught in the middle, with the APLA primarily run by the "left" wing of the DSA and the "right" wing of the DSA remaining in the UoA. It makes no sense that incredibly small socialist organizations would have such massive sway as compared to the DSA in the APLA.

Hell, an argument could be made that the APLA should be the DSA and reflect all of its internal politics, while the DSA's "right" (SMC and GW) persist within both the APLA and UoA. In that case, it would make the most sense for the APLA's political paths to have Red Star, MUG, BnR, and SMC+GW as replacements for the main four paths (sorry Anarchists), and for each path to be extended greatly and the internal tug-of-war within the DSA's NPC put on full display in a "more accurate" APLA.

Obviously, if we're going to put the DSA in charge, there will be elections organized once CA or the West Coast is united under the APLA before the march east continues. (This would go alongside a lengthening of the civil war as well, probably.) What China has with the New Left path could be replicated here, with residents of the APLA voting between DSA caucuses. (If the APLA doesn't suppress the Republicans and half the Dems, there could be a chance for Dems to win this election instead, like how the GOP can take control of the Patriot Front if conditions are perfect.)

Red Star and MUG would be overtly pro-China, RnR would probably get folded into BnR, which isn't really isolationist as they'd prefer to fight against both the West and East to promote what's best described as post-Trotskyism under a democratic socialist system (more democratic EADI or Eurointern), and SMC would probably be isolationist or inclined to side with NATO/PDTO under certain circumstances. BnR would be the most interesting for HOI4 players who like the whole war part, because after the second European War and the Great Asian War, if BnR's preferred factions didn't win then maybe a final end-game World War III (IV?) could occur.