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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Pax Fulanica

1993-1997: Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (with James Stockdale) def. Bill Clinton (Democratic), George Bush (Republican)
1997-2001: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
1996 (with Tom Harkin) def. Ross Perot (Reform), Lamar Alexander (Republican)
2001-2003: Pat Buchanan (Reform)
2000 (with John McCain; cross-endorsed by Republicans) def. Jerry Brown (Democratic)
2003-2009: John McCain (Republican)
2004 (with Joe Lieberman; cross-endorsed by Democrats) def. Ralph Nader (Reform)
2009-2011: Mike Gravel (Reform)
2008 (with Lenora Fulani) def. John McCain (Republican; cross-endorsed by Democrats)
2011-2013: Lenora Fulani (Independent; endorsed by leftist elements of Reform)
2013: Abolition of the Presidency, executive powers transferred to the Presidium elected by Congress

Perot manages to push through but finds himself stalled in many of his objectives by the partisan Congress. He forms the Reform party, less as a vehicle for election but as a vehicle for congressional candidates. This ends up being comparable to the Palmer United Party of Australia in that Reform doesn't actually care very much in the ideological credentials of their candidates instead just signing up whoever happens to be available and throwing cash at their campaigns, something that results in Reform being pretty wild in its composition. The 1994 midterms deliver a Reform caucus but Perot's lameduck Presidency leads to his narrow defeat to Jerry Brown whose strange synthesis of left and right positions seems to capture the same essence as Reform.

In reality, Brown's Presidency proves to be a younger slightly different version of the same establishment ideas as went before. Reform continues to grow despite internescine conflicts - all factions perceive the Democratic-Republican consensus as the greater threat. Pat Buchanan runs for both the Reform and Republican candidacies and ends up winning both, standing as Reform and appointing a Republican Vice President, defeating Brown.

Buchanan's isolationism soon catches up with him and the interventionists in the Democrats and Republicans align against him, carrying out impeachment proceedings once they have a comfortable combined majority in Congress in favour of Buchanan's removal (certain Republicans remained pro-Buchanan, whereas other Democrats were happy to see the Republican endorsed candidate go down in flames). McCain won re-election in 2004 with a Democrat by his side, but by this point Reform had begun to change, captured by the infiltrating structures of the hard-left and the magnetic candidacy of Ralph Nader.

The economic crash of 2007 hits hard and McCain is hard pressed to do anything about it as his own coalition tears itself apart. While the left coalesces behind Mike Gravel and McCain manages to hold his co-endorsers to him, the result is a landslide comparable to Herbert Hoover's defeat in 1932. Reform captures Congress as well as the Presidency.

Gravel falls to a stress induced heart attack in 2011 and Lenora Fulani takes the Presidency, using the opportunity to purge the neo-Nazis from her party, and secure her grip on Reform and the country. At the height of her powers, a Constitutional Convention is called, abolishing the Presidency in favour of a Presidium - effectively a Cabinet elected by Congress. Term limits on Congressmen are enforced, and several amendments effectively enshrine socialist institutions in the constitution.

This might not be the America that Ross Perot envisioned when he ran for the Presidency in 1992, but it is certainly... an America.
 
1969-1974: Richard Nixon / John Tower (Republican)
1968: Hubert Humphrey / Edmund Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace / Ezra Taft Benson (American Independent)
1972: Edmund Muskie / Terry Sanford (Democratic), George Wallace / A. B. Chandler (American Independent)
1974: John Tower / Vacant (Republican)
1974-1977: John Tower / Charles Percy (Republican)
1977-1985: John Gilligan / Lloyd Bentsen (Democratic)
1976: Ronald Reagan / Elliot Richardson (Republican)
1980: Bob Dole / Alexander Haig (Republican)
1985-1991: Sandra Day O'Connor / Bob Packwood (Republican)
1984: Lloyd Bensten / Dick Celeste (Democratic)
1988: Buddy MacKay / Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic)
1991: Sandra Day O'Connor / Vacant (Republican)
1991-1993: Sandra Day O'Connor / John E. Sununu (Republican)
1993-1997: Jack Gargan / John Silber (Reform)
1992: Dick Celeste / Al Gore, Marshall Coleman / Thomas Harkett (Republican)
1997-2005: Les Aucoin / Joe Biden (Democratic)
1996: Jack Lousma / Bernadine Healy (Republican), Dean Barkley / Leon Panetta (Reform)
2000: Mike Huckabee / Spencer Abraham (Republican), Buddy Roemer / Ed Zchau (Reform)
2005-2013: Bill Schuette / John Sanchez (Republican)
2004: Richard Swett / Tim Kaine (Democratic)
2008: Ron Kirk / Paul Vallas (Democratic)
2013-2021: Kathleen Vineout / Phil Gordon (Democratic)
2012: John Sanchez / Ed Gillespie (Republican)
2016: Henry McMaster / Loretta Sanchez (Republican)
2021-: Kelli Ward / Patrick Murphy (Republican)
2020: Condoleezza Rice / Cory Gardner (Democratic)

Nixon's term plays out mostly as OTL, but without Agnew's scandals, Nixon goes down over Watergate a bit sooner. Tower proves to be overwhelmed by the presidency, and his alcoholism intensifies to the point that it becomes impossible to cover up. Tower's poor performance, combined with Nixon's never-ending trial, lead to sinking ratings which lead to Tower to choose not to run for a full term. Not even Reagan can save the tarnished Republican brand, and John Gilligan receives a decisive mandate for a Liberal agenda; under his watch, he spearheads a massive Medicare expansion comes to cover over two-thirds of the population. His re-election in 1980 in the face of global recession is widely viewed as a stunning upset, massively aided by a "rally-around-the-flag" effect as a result of American intervention in the Iranian Civil War in Autumn 1980. He is able to install a pro-American leadership and lets the Shah live out the rest of his life in Switzerland. His popularity dipped as the economy worsened and its recovery was too slow to help Lloyd Bentsen succeed him.

The well-liked governor of Arizona got to embody the optimism of the 1980s, bringing about an end to the Cold War by providing President Ryzhkov with much-needed aid to save the new Sovereign Union from collapse. More controversial is the pursuing of Free Trade with Canada and Mexico, ultimately rushed through just before the 1992 election. She was personally popular for most of her term, but a stagnating economy and mounting political scandals (culminating in her Vice President's resignation and eventual conviction) trashed her reputation towards the end. This lead to an anti-establishment backlash in the form of an Independent Senator from Florida. Jack Gargan, having formed a third party to fight the election, with the Reform Party managing to net a dozen Congressmen and a couple of Senators. He does surprisingly well for someone with no base in Congress, torpedoing NAFTA at the last minute and working with Congress to force through many anti-corruption laws. Unable to pass term limits for legislators, Gargan forgoes a second term in a characteristic fit of pique; His party doesn't survive long without him.

Governor Aucoin became the Democratic Nominee after a brokered convention of the sort that embodied the"establishment" that so obsessed Gargan. In 1998, he leads a Western Coalition to remove the disintegrating Apartheid Regime in South Africa and secure its weapons of Mass Destruction. At home, big investments in transport and infrastructure were pushed through by the Vice President. Had a health scare not forced him out of the race, most believe that he could have easily defeated Schuette, whose strategy seemed to involve doing as little governing as possible, unless it involved drugs or sexual morality. The Supreme Court's legalisation of Same-Sex Marriage and its later striking down of "religious freedom" (Chief Justice Howard Baker writing such laws violated the Equal Rights Amendment) and showed how impotent the Religious Right had become since banking everything on Mike Huckabee in 2000. The Schuette Administration seemed desperate to get out of South Africa as quickly as possible and enjoyed relatively frosty relations with Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Charles Kennedy; Schuette seemed to prefer the company of his allies in Asia, leaders like Japan's Toshikatsu Matsuoka and India's Jayalalithaa. The bottom began to fall out of Wall Street in 2010 and while tight regulations limited the spread of the financial crises, it heralded a sharp recession and put into question many of the Republicans' deregulation plans.

The Reformist Governor of Wisconsin set out to be a second LBJ, but couldn't quite manage it. Expanding welfare programs was one thing, but more regulations on hard-working big businesses was too much to stomach for many more moderate Democrats. Civil Rights legislation to protect LGBT Americans and expand oversight of police forces were radical enough for many. In her second term, she was caught off guard, along with most of her European Allies, when the Sovereign Union sent troops into prop up the collapsing regime in Iran in 2017. Attempts at UN Sanctions had little effect. The American public came to care about what was happening in Iran once petrol prices began to skyrocket once more, however. An insurgent populist campaign that defined "Dog-Whistling" propelled controversial Arizona Governor Kelli Ward to the Republican nomination and blindsided Vineout's popular Secretary of State. While many of her anti-immigration policies are getting challenged heavily in the courts, her endless brinkmanship with President Fradkov over the Ukraine's efforts to break away from the Sovereign Union has put East and West the closest to war since the 1960s...
 
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Pax Fulanica

1993-1997: Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (with James Stockdale) def. Bill Clinton (Democratic), George Bush (Republican)
1997-2001: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
1996 (with Tom Harkin) def. Ross Perot (Reform), Lamar Alexander (Republican)
2001-2003: Pat Buchanan (Reform)
2000 (with John McCain; cross-endorsed by Republicans) def. Jerry Brown (Democratic)
2003-2009: John McCain (Republican)
2004 (with Joe Lieberman; cross-endorsed by Democrats) def. Ralph Nader (Reform)
2009-2011: Mike Gravel (Reform)
2008 (with Lenora Fulani) def. John McCain (Republican; cross-endorsed by Democrats)
2011-2013: Lenora Fulani (Independent; endorsed by leftist elements of Reform)
2013: Abolition of the Presidency, executive powers transferred to the Presidium elected by Congress

Perot manages to push through but finds himself stalled in many of his objectives by the partisan Congress. He forms the Reform party, less as a vehicle for election but as a vehicle for congressional candidates. This ends up being comparable to the Palmer United Party of Australia in that Reform doesn't actually care very much in the ideological credentials of their candidates instead just signing up whoever happens to be available and throwing cash at their campaigns, something that results in Reform being pretty wild in its composition. The 1994 midterms deliver a Reform caucus but Perot's lameduck Presidency leads to his narrow defeat to Jerry Brown whose strange synthesis of left and right positions seems to capture the same essence as Reform.

In reality, Brown's Presidency proves to be a younger slightly different version of the same establishment ideas as went before. Reform continues to grow despite internescine conflicts - all factions perceive the Democratic-Republican consensus as the greater threat. Pat Buchanan runs for both the Reform and Republican candidacies and ends up winning both, standing as Reform and appointing a Republican Vice President, defeating Brown.

Buchanan's isolationism soon catches up with him and the interventionists in the Democrats and Republicans align against him, carrying out impeachment proceedings once they have a comfortable combined majority in Congress in favour of Buchanan's removal (certain Republicans remained pro-Buchanan, whereas other Democrats were happy to see the Republican endorsed candidate go down in flames). McCain won re-election in 2004 with a Democrat by his side, but by this point Reform had begun to change, captured by the infiltrating structures of the hard-left and the magnetic candidacy of Ralph Nader.

The economic crash of 2007 hits hard and McCain is hard pressed to do anything about it as his own coalition tears itself apart. While the left coalesces behind Mike Gravel and McCain manages to hold his co-endorsers to him, the result is a landslide comparable to Herbert Hoover's defeat in 1932. Reform captures Congress as well as the Presidency.

Gravel falls to a stress induced heart attack in 2011 and Lenora Fulani takes the Presidency, using the opportunity to purge the neo-Nazis from her party, and secure her grip on Reform and the country. At the height of her powers, a Constitutional Convention is called, abolishing the Presidency in favour of a Presidium - effectively a Cabinet elected by Congress. Term limits on Congressmen are enforced, and several amendments effectively enshrine socialist institutions in the constitution.

This might not be the America that Ross Perot envisioned when he ran for the Presidency in 1992, but it is certainly... an America.
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I wonder how the rest of the world reacted to this

also,does 9/11 still happen or does Brown blow up Bin Laden and stuff
 
Mumby said:
Pax Fulanica

1993-1997: Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (with James Stockdale) def. Bill Clinton (Democratic), George Bush (Republican)
1997-2001: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
1996 (with Tom Harkin) def. Ross Perot (Reform), Lamar Alexander (Republican)
2001-2003: Pat Buchanan (Reform)
2000 (with John McCain; cross-endorsed by Republicans) def. Jerry Brown (Democratic)
2003-2009: John McCain (Republican)
2004 (with Joe Lieberman; cross-endorsed by Democrats) def. Ralph Nader (Reform)
2009-2011: Mike Gravel (Reform)
2008 (with Lenora Fulani) def. John McCain (Republican; cross-endorsed by Democrats)
2011-2013: Lenora Fulani (Independent; endorsed by leftist elements of Reform)
2013: Abolition of the Presidency, executive powers transferred to the Presidium elected by Congress

Perot manages to push through but finds himself stalled in many of his objectives by the partisan Congress. He forms the Reform party, less as a vehicle for election but as a vehicle for congressional candidates. This ends up being comparable to the Palmer United Party of Australia in that Reform doesn't actually care very much in the ideological credentials of their candidates instead just signing up whoever happens to be available and throwing cash at their campaigns, something that results in Reform being pretty wild in its composition. The 1994 midterms deliver a Reform caucus but Perot's lameduck Presidency leads to his narrow defeat to Jerry Brown whose strange synthesis of left and right positions seems to capture the same essence as Reform.

In reality, Brown's Presidency proves to be a younger slightly different version of the same establishment ideas as went before. Reform continues to grow despite internescine conflicts - all factions perceive the Democratic-Republican consensus as the greater threat. Pat Buchanan runs for both the Reform and Republican candidacies and ends up winning both, standing as Reform and appointing a Republican Vice President, defeating Brown.

Buchanan's isolationism soon catches up with him and the interventionists in the Democrats and Republicans align against him, carrying out impeachment proceedings once they have a comfortable combined majority in Congress in favour of Buchanan's removal (certain Republicans remained pro-Buchanan, whereas other Democrats were happy to see the Republican endorsed candidate go down in flames). McCain won re-election in 2004 with a Democrat by his side, but by this point Reform had begun to change, captured by the infiltrating structures of the hard-left and the magnetic candidacy of Ralph Nader.

The economic crash of 2007 hits hard and McCain is hard pressed to do anything about it as his own coalition tears itself apart. While the left coalesces behind Mike Gravel and McCain manages to hold his co-endorsers to him, the result is a landslide comparable to Herbert Hoover's defeat in 1932. Reform captures Congress as well as the Presidency.

Gravel falls to a stress induced heart attack in 2011 and Lenora Fulani takes the Presidency, using the opportunity to purge the neo-Nazis from her party, and secure her grip on Reform and the country. At the height of her powers, a Constitutional Convention is called, abolishing the Presidency in favour of a Presidium - effectively a Cabinet elected by Congress. Term limits on Congressmen are enforced, and several amendments effectively enshrine socialist institutions in the constitution.

This might not be the America that Ross Perot envisioned when he ran for the Presidency in 1992, but it is certainly... an America.
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I didn't know about Fulani. Interesting pick
 
I'm curious; why is Gargan a Senator from Texas when he was born in Pennsylvania and lived most of his adult life in Florida, and ran for Congress in a district covering Zephyrhills?
 
theev said:
obligatory queen nixon

1953-1961: Dwight Eisenhower/Richard Nixon (Republican)
1952: Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman (Democratic)
1956: Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver (Democratic)
1961-1963: Richard Nixon/Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1960: Lyndon B. Johnson/Wayne Morse (Democratic) , Unpledged Southern Electors
1963-1965: Nelson Rockefeller/Vacant (Republican)
1965-1969: John F. Kennedy/Stuart Symington (Democratic)
1964: Nelson Rockefeller/Thomas Kuchel (Republican) , Orval Faubus/Ross Barnett (Dixiecrat)
1969-1970: George Wallace/Robert McNamara (Democratic)
1968: Barry Goldwater/George Romney (Republican) , Eugene McCarthy/George McGovern (Progressive)
1970-1970: George Wallace/Vacant (Democratic)
1970-1977: George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic)
1972: Pete McCloskey/William Scott (Republican)
1977-1979: Ronald Reagan/Tom McCall (Republican)
1976: Henry M. Jackson/Ed Edmonson (Democratic) , Evan Mecham/John G. Schmitz (Independent)
1979-1979: Ronald Reagan/Vacant (Republican)
1979-1985: Ronald Reagan/Gerald Ford (Republican)
1980: John McKeithen/Cesar Chavez (Democratic) , George McGovern/Bob Packwood (Progressive)
1985-1993: Donald Rumsfeld/Mike Gravel (Republican)
1984: William Proxmire/Jesse Helms (Democratic) , John B. Anderson/Jerry Brown (Progressive)
1988: Richard Celeste/Kent Hance (Democratic) , Patrick Leahy/Pete Stark (Progressive)
1993-1997: Lee Iacocca/Lynn Yeakel (Democratic)
1992: Orrin Hatch/John Eisenhower (Republican) , Dick Lamm/Tom Harkin (Progressive)
1997-0000: Ted Bundy/James Meredith (Republican)
1996: Lynn Yeakel/Richard Bryan (Democratic) , Fred Tuttle/Gary Johnson (Progressive) , Marvin Richardson/Randy Weaver (Natural Law)
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Mike Gravel as a Republican continues to make no fucking sense.
 
Meppo said:
I wonder if this is, somehow, going to end in a Progressive landslide because of younger people, farmers, minorities and the poor becoming tired of the conservative Democratic-Republican consensus
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No, because the author of NDCR is a fascist and the whole story is a giant right-wing wank.
 
napoleon IV said:
No, because the author of NDCR is a fascist and the whole story is a giant right-wing wank.
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Nailed it.

I mean, the guy writes about Associate Justice Phyllis Schlalfy writing the majority opinion of a case that makes it legal to execute drug dealers and this is all portrayed as a good thing.

Not to mention the update where Jane Fonda got executed that was almost certainly written with one hand.
 
This took more time to do than was strictly necessary.

The Man With The Glass Heart

1933-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1932 PE (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1932 SE (Majority) def. Joseph Watson (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor)
1932 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor)
1934 SE (Majority) def. Charles McNary (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1934 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor)
1936 PE (with John Nance Garner) def. Alf Landon (Republican)
1936 SE (Majority) def. Charles McNary (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1936 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor)
1938 SE (Majority) def. Charles McNary (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1938 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor)
1941-1941: Wendell Willkie (Republican)
1940 PE (with Dewey Short) def. James Farley (Democratic)
1940 SE (Minority) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1940 HE (Minority) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor), Rich T. Buckler (Farmer-Labor)
1941-1945: Dewey Short (Republican & America First)
1942 SE (Alliance with America First) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1942 HE (Alliance with America First) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Harold Hagen (Farmer-Labor), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor)
1945-1957: Charles Lindbergh (America First)
1944 PE (with Earl Warren) def. Harry F. Byrd (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace (Progressive & American Labor)
1944 SE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1944 HE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor), Merlin Hull (Progressive)
1946 SE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic)
1946 HE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic)
1948 PE (with Gerald P. Nye) def. James F. Byrnes (Democratic), Earl Warren (Independent Republican)
1948 SE (Alliance with Loyalist Republicans) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Leverett Saltonstall (Independent Republican)
1948 HE (Alliance with Loyalist Republicans) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Margaret Chase Smith (Independent Republican)
1950 SE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents
1950 HE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents
1952 PE (with Gerald P. Nye) def. Douglas MacArthur (Independent)
1952 SE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents
1952 HE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents

While Germany and Japan glower at one another across the Great Eurasian Faultline that stretches from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean, America remains blissful in her own continents, having steadily succumbed to fascism over the last many years.

Willkie's untimely death opened the path for the reactionaries to seize control of the levers of government and slowly but surely restrict politics to their own narrow definition of what was 'True Americanism'. The last stand for democracy was in 1944, as Henry Wallace launched his quixotic campaign for the Presidency that even captured fistfuls of seats down the ballot. But Lindbergh soon implemented rules that banned 'socialism', wiping the Progressives and Labor off the map and steadily narrowing the field of vision for the Democrats.

By the time Earl Warren broke with America First and led his own campaign, it was all too late. The fascists had triumphed overseas and their message seemed horribly outdated. The GOP 'Loyalists' were doomed to be consumed by the now dominant America First, and soon all other political parties were banned.

Lindbergh seems immovable, and with the stories of the 'Lazarus Project' emerging, perhaps his permanence in the highest office will be all too real for generations of Americans now and forever.
 
Mumby said:
This took more time to do than was strictly necessary.

The Man With The Glass Heart

1933-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1932 PE (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1932 SE (Majority) def. Joseph Watson (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor)
1932 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor)
1934 SE (Majority) def. Charles McNary (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1934 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor)
1936 PE (with John Nance Garner) def. Alf Landon (Republican)
1936 SE (Majority) def. Charles McNary (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1936 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor)
1938 SE (Majority) def. Charles McNary (Republican), Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1938 HE (Majority) def. Bertrand Snell (Republican), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Paul John Kvale (Farmer-Labor), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor)
1941-1941: Wendell Willkie (Republican)
1940 PE (with Dewey Short) def. James Farley (Democratic)
1940 SE (Minority) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1940 HE (Minority) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor), Rich T. Buckler (Farmer-Labor)
1941-1945: Dewey Short (Republican & America First)
1942 SE (Alliance with America First) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1942 HE (Alliance with America First) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Merlin Hull (Progressive), Harold Hagen (Farmer-Labor), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor)
1945-1957: Charles Lindbergh (America First)
1944 PE (with Earl Warren) def. Harry F. Byrd (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace (Progressive & American Labor)
1944 SE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. (Progressive)
1944 HE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor), Merlin Hull (Progressive)
1946 SE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic)
1946 HE (Alliance with Republicans) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic)
1948 PE (with Gerald P. Nye) def. James F. Byrnes (Democratic), Earl Warren (Independent Republican)
1948 SE (Alliance with Loyalist Republicans) def. Alben Barkley (Democratic), Leverett Saltonstall (Independent Republican)
1948 HE (Alliance with Loyalist Republicans) def. Sam Rayburn (Democratic), Margaret Chase Smith (Independent Republican)
1950 SE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents
1950 HE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents
1952 PE (with Gerald P. Nye) def. Douglas MacArthur (Independent)
1952 SE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents
1952 HE (Sole Legal Party) def. scattered Independents

While Germany and Japan glower at one another across the Great Eurasian Faultline that stretches from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean, America remains blissful in her own continents, having steadily succumbed to fascism over the last many years.

Willkie's untimely death opened the path for the reactionaries to seize control of the levers of government and slowly but surely restrict politics to their own narrow definition of what was 'True Americanism'. The last stand for democracy was in 1944, as Henry Wallace launched his quixotic campaign for the Presidency that even captured fistfuls of seats down the ballot. But Lindbergh soon implemented rules that banned 'socialism', wiping the Progressives and Labor off the map and steadily narrowing the field of vision for the Democrats.

By the time Earl Warren broke with America First and led his own campaign, it was all too late. The fascists had triumphed overseas and their message seemed horribly outdated. The GOP 'Loyalists' were doomed to be consumed by the now dominant America First, and soon all other political parties were banned.

Lindbergh seems immovable, and with the stories of the 'Lazarus Project' emerging, perhaps his permanence in the highest office will be all too real for generations of Americans now and forever.
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I don't think I've seen a US list with House and Senate elections included, that's interesting.
 
Thande said:
I don't think I've seen a US list with House and Senate elections included, that's interesting.
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It started off as a conventional list and then I was like 'how am i supposed to show how president short aligns with america first in the mid terms so that lindbergh becoming president in 1944 doesn't come out of nowhere'
 
LIST OF SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDERS EUROPE

1937 - 1939: Maurice Gamelin [1]

1940: Lord Gort [2]

1941: Alphonse Juin [3]

1942: Bernard Montgomery [4]

1943 -1945: Charles de Gaulle [5]

1945 - 1947: Miles Dempsey [6]

1947 - 1949: Alexandros Papagos [7]



[1] Initially, SHAPE was planned to alternate between a French and British marshal - the other nations had to lump it. The greatly respected Gamelin was the first choice and the idea of him commanding a horde of rival armies deterred Germany from invading Czechoslovakia and Poland as planned. Unfortunately, his organisation was based on any future war with Germany going the same way as it did in 1914 and so SHAPE based itself on static defences and didn't truly prepare for airpower. Historians conclude if Germany had attacked earlier, things would have gone quite differently.


[2] Germany attacked as soon as Gort was in command, hoping to catch SHAPE on the hop - a two-pronged assault on Czechslovakia and Poland is launched, with a sabre-rattling strike on Belgium as a distraction later on. When German forces push through quicker than expected (and than the Germans expect), Gort controversially orders most allied forces to withdraw & abandons most of the eastern countries, focusing primarily on reinforcing the Polish coast, while making a few opportunistic raids on overextended Germans. Belgium gets a massive tank counteroffensive, the better German commanders overwhelmed by firepower.

'The Lightning War' is a German victory but an inconclusive one, as the Battle of Belgium went extremely differently to battles where the West upped sticks. Both Germany and SHAPE agree to an armistice and work on new plans. Gort, however, can't stay the full two years: the Czech government-in-exile and the Poles are utterly livid that he decided Western lives were worth five times as much as Eastern ones, and Spain and the Dutch are worried Gort could sacrifice them for British lives. He officially 'resigns' but nobody's called.


[3] To save face, SACs are now only one year! Juin is despatched to Calais to do the role for a year, a break from Middle Eastern duties - ironically meaning he's not there for the "War of Musso's Messes", when Mussolini attack Greece, Metaxis abruptly joins SHAPE, and Britain & France rip into Italian North Africa. Juin's job is managing the expeditionary forces to Greece, which is actually kicking the snot out of Italy on its own, and liaising with the Greeks to integrate them. He also begins to do the same with Yugoslavia, which wants in.


[4] One of the heroes of North Africa, "Monty" is given the SAC job and continues the reforming work. Sabres rattled as it becomes clear exactly what Germany's doing in Poland and war plans are set up, even as Germany 'backs down' - Hitler wants to invade the USSR but is paranoid SHAPE will stab Germany in its many flanks as soon as it does. (Whether it should is debated among the members: "Yes" from Poland, "no" from most) Monty and his upcoming French replacement, De Gaulle, collaborate on plans on the assumption Germany will strike West rather than the rump Poland.


[5] Germany does that very thing, with Italy on its side, after a feint on re-attacking Greece - SHAPE immediately, as planned, counterattacks the Ruhr and the Romanian oil fields Germany needs. This staggers the enemy advance, turning what should be an overwhelming attack on France via Italy (where defensive lines are not as strong) into a whelming one. De Gaulle is the first SAC in a while to serve more than one year because it would be quite stupid to replace him mid-war. Via Greece, an invasion of Italy is launched months in; later, forces belatedly show up to help the Polish resistance as they rise up to avoid all being murdered.

Germany doesn't go down easy but it does eventually go down.


[6] A distinguished leader in the SHAPE-Axis War, Dempsey takes over as SAC for the dual tasks of occupying the conquered enemy and reworking SHAPE to deal with the looming Soviet threat. Doing both at once when everyone's war weary is a task he struggles to perform but just about pulls off. Where he can't get heavy firepower into Yugoslavia, Greece, and Poland, he finds ways to fake it.


[7] The first and only commander from a country that wasn't Britain or France, chosen as the other SHAPE members were demanding recognition for their sacrifices and due to his severely intense anti-communist views. Shortly into his term, the USSR and SHAPE signed a non-aggression pact and Papagos had to fight demands to 'streamline' his force, a fight he eventually lost as less French & British money came in.

In 1949, SHAPE ceased to be as the 'little nations' realised Britain and France were less interested now they felt safe and departed to form the Central European Treaty Alliance, headquartered in Spain (furthest point from Russia), specifically as a mutual defence group against the USSR.
 
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