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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

"Only one danger could have jeopardised this development — if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement."

2024-2029: Ron DeSantis (Republican)
(with Greg Abbott) defeated Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (Democratic), Jimmy Dore/Geoff Young (Peoples)

- Federal charges against Clean Elections USA of voted intimidation dropped, no official reasoning given
- Internal reports of anti-communist, neo-nazi paramilitary organisations growth suppressed
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy retires, is replaced by Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
- Global temperatures exceed 1.5°C increase in 2026, Global sea levels rise 8ft
- DeSantis admin. release controversial guidelines for "Human Hereditary Teaching" to combat exaggerated policies of Critical Race Theory
- National unemployment reaches 10.2%


2029-203?: Raphael Warnock (Democratic)
(with Pete Buttigieg) defeated Ron DeSantis/Greg Abbott (Republican)
- Victims of Racial Violence Act (granting tax exemptions to direct descendants of African-American slaves) and Responsible and Reasonable Arms Act (banning new sales of automatic/semi-automatic weaponry in excess) passed via executive order, outraging conservatives
- Speaker of the House Paul Gosar is ousted by Democrat Majority Leader Pete Aguilar
- Partial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, understood to be the flow-on effect of DeSantis-era fiscal reform
- Inflation hits the American economy, rising to 12.3%
- Fuentes arrested by the FBI for attempting to start a large-scale riot at the Congressional Building, sentenced to five years at FCI Fort Dix
- Seven million+ Americans unemployed, according to census
- Secretary of State James Sullivan assassinated by suspected malita members
- Attacks and lynchings on people of colour, predominantly African Americans and Mexicans, skyrocket
- Inflation becomes hyperinflation, suddenly jumping to 18.1%
- Republicans gain two-thirds congressional majority following midterm sweep
- Ethan Nordean (leader of the Proud Boys organisation) announces creation of "Praetorian Guard" for pro-Fuentes Republican candidates, Melody Jennings (leader of Clean Elections USA) admitted to the RNC Executive Committee and Rules Committee
- Following victory in the Republican Primaries, a major dispute between runner-up and moderate George Logan and Fuentes erupts, with Logan resigning from the party and switching his affiliation to Independent. A large-scale purge of Republican party members occurs over the next three months


2032-2035: Nick Fuentes (Republican/Patriot)
(with Paul Gosar) defeated Raphael Warnock/Pete Buttigieg (Democratic)
- Electors replaced at the last minute by GOP governors certify certain EC votes for Fuentes, despite President Warnock winning the popular vote
- Multiple cases of alt-right militia groups opening fire on leftist protesters prior to inauguration
- A truck bomb explodes outside One Federal Plaza in New York, officially blamed on Darrius Vanderbilt, a member of the CPUSA
- President Fuentes meets with top military leaders and industrialists, FBI Chairman permits the shooting of "enemies of the state"
- "Restoration of the Professional Civil Service Act" purges workers inclined to forming unions from Civil Service, around 5% removed in total
- President Fuentes is awarded emergency powers under the Law for the Protection of People and State Act, the process of exerting totalitarian control over. Over the next five months, Republicans systematically exclude and obfuscate Democrats from decision-making, until many part members (predominantly AOC/the Squad) are arrested for dubious treason charges
- American troops are deployed to the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico, over "concerns of national security"


TBC?
 
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2017-pres.: Senator R. Hunter Biden / Governor Allison Lundergan Grimes (Democratic)

what is the esteemed President's stance on sex work

- Ethan Nordean (leader of the Proud Boys organisation) announces creation of "Praetorian Guard" for pro-Fuentes Republican candidates and, Melody Jennings (leader of Clean Elections USA) admitted to the RNC Executive Committee and Rules Committee

do they consider creating a Central Electoral Commission™ of sorts?
 
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1999 - 2003: Bülent Ecevit (Democratic Left)
1999 (Coalition) def. Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement), Recai Kutan (Felicity), Mesut Yılmaz (Motherland), Tansu Çiller (True Path)
2000: Chief Justice Ahmet Necdet Sezer elected President.


By 2002 Bülent Ecevit’s health had worsened to such a degree that he was effectively incapable of continuing his duties as Prime Minister. Nevertheless, Ecevit initially continued to resist his rival and the party’s deputy leader Hüsamettin Özkan’s private calls for resignation. Ecevit rebuked these calls, nearly leading to a split of the party after a Cumhuriyet writer caught wind of the story, and published it. The ensuing fallout forced Özkan and Ecevit back to the table, where the latter’s wife Rahşan moderated a meeting between the two in the Prime Minister’s hospital room. Ultimately, the two came to an agreement to put party above politics, and endorse Minister of Foreign Affairs, and architect of the normalization of relations with Greece and chief negotiator of EU accession, İsmail Cem as their new party leader and candidate in the upcoming general elections. However, quick handling by Cem forced the two into de facto retirement, and the establishment of the Cem-Bahçeli-Yılmaz triumvirate, though Ecevit continued to be the figurehead from his hospital bed.

This new triumvirate seemed initially to have ushered in a reset of relations between the Democratic Left (DSP) and Nationalist Movement (MHP) as Cem called for a halt on the hunt of ultranationalists involved with the criminal underworld and the Deep State, the two being increasingly hard to keep apart. Serenity slowly returned to the government as former World Bank Vice-President Kemal Derviş’ return to Turkey, and installment as Minister of Economic Affairs had brought down inflation rates to more manageable levels. If not for the sudden surge of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the polls, the DSP-MHP-ANAP coalition could have finished their term.

The AKP’s rise brought fear into the harts of the most secular elements of both the Armed Forces and the Deep State, even if it had already fallen from its record high polling numbers at 35%. The government parties similarly feared the possibility of a strong AKP following the next elections, and Bahçeli was finally convinced to lower the electoral threshold to 7%, despite his fears that this would open the door to Kurdish parties achieving representation in government. Only three months after this electoral reform, the government finally collapsed, as Bahçeli’s MHP filed a motion of no-confidence. The official story is that the leader of the MHP was worried about the increasing political liberalization of Kurdish civil society organizations’ right to assembly, a prerequisite for entrance into the EU, though conspiracy theories argue that the Deep State became increasingly worried about the DSP’s close ties with the Hizmet movement of exiled preacher Fetullah Gülen, and the possibility of an AKP-DSP-DYP (True Path) coalition inviting the preacher back to Turkey. Thus, conspiracy theorists argue, the Deep State threatened Bahçeli with release of evidence of him being a homosexual, leading to the MHP leader doing as the shadowy actors in the state wished, and called for early elections while the AKP’s numbers were down.

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2003 - 2003: Abdullah Gül (Justice and Development)
2003 - 2008: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development)
2003 (Coalition) def. Deniz Baykal (Republican (People’s), İsmail Cem (Democratic Left), Tansu Çiller (True Path), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement), Mesut Yılmaz (Motherland), Cem Uzan (Youth)

As the 2003 elections neared, the results became increasingly unpredictable. Electoral reform had lowered the threshold to 7%, which led to many ‘strategic voters’ voting closer to their consciousness. This was mainly to the detriment of Erdoğan and his AKP, as the centre-right had rallied around him just a few months earlier, though now some voters returned back to the more conventional secular centre-right parties, while many other voters flocked to the syncretic populist campaign of businessman Cem Uzan, who handed out free chicken döner to every person . Nevertheless, the AKP finished in a convincing first place, with only the CHP being anywhere near close.

Though President Sezer privately attempted to convince CHP leader Baykal that he should form a broad secular coalition, but Baykal thought it would be better to give in to the public’s urges for the AKP to be given a ‘chance’. However, Baykal didn’t exactly roll over for Erdoğan. He told the former Mayor of Istanbul in coalition talks that he expected the new government to continue strict adherence to state secularism, as well as the continuation of Derviş at Economic Affairs. Erdoğan agreed surprisingly quickly with these offers, though Baykal’s last wish, his return to the Minister of Foreign Affairs-office, became more of a stumbling block, as Erdoğan instead preferred his number two Abdullah Gül. Ultimately, Erdoğan relented to Baykal, and allowed him to attempt to fulfill his wishes of the Party of Atatürk realizing EU-membership, despite the AKP’s continued worries about a formerly dictatorial party being at the helm of Turkish democratization.

Even if the AKP and CHP had reached an agreement, they still needed one more party to form a government, and Çiller’s True Path Party (DYP) was seen as the ideal candidate by both. Baykal had already established good working relations with Çiller a few years earlier, serving at Foreign Affairs in her government, and the DYP later went on to form a coalition with the AKP’s predecessor. However, it was that cooperation that had broken the DYP, as the party that once functioned as the political wing of the Deep State, was now a small party with nothing more to show than the small cult of personality it had built around it’s two leaders Tansu Çiller and Mehmet Ağır. It would ultimately be Ağır that dragged the party back into government, being installed back to his former office at the powerful Ministry of the Interior in return, despite loud protests from human rights associations due to Ağır’s involvement in the Susurluk Scandal, and close ties to the Deep State, organized crime, and paramilitary death squads in the Kurdish provinces.

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Despite some fears in secular circles, Erdoğan did not bring back Sharia Law after he convinced the opposition parties DSP and MHP to aid him in repealing his political ban. In fact, Erdoğan focussed very little on socially conservative issues, even allowing the ban on wearing the hijab in universities stay in place for now. Instead, his main focus lay with the economy in initial years, continuing Derviş’ neoliberal reforms, as an improving economic situation would allow him to realize his goals in later years, or at least so he believed.

To the surprise of everyone in government bar Ağır, the PKK mostly regrouped after the capture of their leader Öcalan, and his calls for them to lay down their weapons, nearly destroyed the organizations. However, a combination of political liberalization and a return to more violent tactics by the military, allowed the PKK to continue their fight against the Turkish state. Aside from the PKK, the Erdoğan government also found itself in conflict with elements of the Deep State, as some of the more radical elements known publicly as “Ergenekon” started false-flag attacks against Kurdish owned businesses, as well as waging propaganda war with the government, and the aligned Hizmet movement, through the increasingly widely available Internet.

2007 Constitutional Referendum: Yes (57.9%)
2007 (Coalition) def. Deniz Baykal (Republican People’s), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement), Mehmet Ağır (Democrat), Murat Karayalçın (Democratic Left), Cem Uzan (Youth)
2007 Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu elected president



The Erdoğan government countered by leaking reports on their deeds through aligned media, though their coalition partner DYP, and to a lesser extent the CHP, sabotaged these attempts, leading to the AKP’s attempts at waging a successful propaganda war leading only to marginal gains in public support for combatting “out of control bureaucrats and lobbyists”.

However, the assassination of legendary investigative journalist Mehmet Ali Birand and popular game show host Mehmat Ali Erbil (no relation) by a 19-year old ultranationalist affiliated with the MHP-aligned ‘Idealist Hearths’, as well as his earlier plans to assassinate the Prime Minister led to public outcry across multiple circles, and allowed Erdoğan to rally liberals, Kurds, and reformist social democrats behind him. This was first demonstrated with the 2007 referendum, which lowered parliamentary terms to four years, and lowered the threshold to 5% saw a comfortable victory for Erdoğan and his allies.

This was subsequently followed by the AKP’s announcement that they would nominate İhsanoğlu to replace outgoing President Sezer. This announcement led to protests in strongly Kemalist Ankara, as well as Istanbul, Izmir, and other cities, as the replacement of a secular hardliner with the Chairman of an Islamic organization indicated to many Kemalists that Erdoğan’s attempts at implementing Sharia Law had officially started.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Deniz Baykal saw his polling numbers decline throughout the years, as orthodox Kemalists saw his cooperation with the Islamist Erdoğan as nothing more than spitting at Atatürk’s grave. Baykal also booked little success with EU-accession talks, as the Turkish government’s continued reforms saw little actual progress in the country’s attempt to become a part of the European government, with Frencg President Chirac and German Chancellor Stoiber continuing to give excuses to block Turkey’s candidacy. In the secularist protests, as well as uncertainty in the DSP after party leader Cem’s sudden death, Baykal saw an attempt for him to shore up his support, and announced his exit from the government, and called for new elections.

Baykal quickly returned back to his comfortable second place spot in the polling, though the AKP had made significant gains since the last elections, and continued their trend upwards, as they finished with slightly above 35% of the vote, making a government without them effectively impossible, due to the animosity between the other parties. Baykal’s CHP suffered minor losses, though still had some distance with the third placed MHP, which made gains with a strongly anti-PKK message, as well as moderating their previously more hardline position on secularism, paving the way for coalition talks with the AKP.

The other parties were a no-go for the Prime Minister, as his former subordinate Mehmet Ağır took over leadership of the DYP, and attracted many ANAP MP’s to re-establish the Democrat Party, which was banned after the 1960 coup, and ran on a strong anti-Erdoğan platform, as well as being the only candidate that had positive things to say about the Deep State. Murat Karayalçın abandoned his position as an elder statesman in the CHP to form a daring coalition with moderate elements of the Kurdish political movement, and ran a campaign which called for more distributionist economics, as well as calls for more rights to Turkey’s ethnic minorities, and became the first major party candidate to talk openly about LGBT+ right. Lastly, Cem Uzan faced multiple corruption charges, and saw nearly 2/3 of his party’s MPs defect, though he nevertheless managed to scrape past the new 5% threshold with a campaign filled with name calling the PM, meaning that he would at least have political protection from his trials for a little longer.

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2008: Republic of Turkey v. Justice and Development Party, AKP banned by Supreme Court, and prominent members not allowed to hold political office for five years.
2008 - 2009: Mesut Yılmaz (ANAP-CHP-MHP-DP)

Despite comfortably securing a second term, electing his preferred candidate as president, and being one of the finalists for the Times 2007 Person of the Year the problems kept on piling up for Prime Minister Erdoğan. On the 18th of March 2008, documents requesting a closure trial of the ruling AKP were presented to the Constitutional Court of Turkey. On 31 May 2008, the Constitutional Court announced that it would hear the case concerning the closure of the party. The case was taken up by all 11 judges of the Supreme Court, and more than 50 speeches of PM Erdoğan were quoted by the prosecutor as arguments for the closure of his party and his ban for politics for 5 years.

In a narrow 7 to 4 decision (the minimum amount needed) the Supreme Court reached the opinion that the AKP had violated the principals of secularism, causing a whirlwind across Turkey as well as the rest of the world. The decision led to a wave of rioting by AKP supporters, with more than fourteen people being killed as a result of harsh police reaction to the protests. Furthermore, DSP leader Karayalçın was seriously injured after self-proclaimed members of “Al-Qaeda in Turkey” set off a fire bomb near him. While some had hoped that Erdoğan would be able to calm the protesters down, he instead took the first flight to New York City, not to return for fifteen years, and effectively destroying any chance of a comeback in 2013.

Bolstered by Erdoğan’s demise many hardline Kemalists called for the removal of President İhsanoğlu, judging him insufficiently secular as well, though these calls saw little popularity in the Meclis, as this would only further throw Turkey into chaos, at a moment where global markets were already showing serious signs of a recession. Only Cem Uzan echoed these calls in parliament, the rest of the parties instead negotiating with the President on whether Baykal or Acting PM Bahçeli should be Erdogan’s replacement.

Surprising everyone, İhsanoğlu instead invited Mesut Yılmaz to form a new government. Yılmaz’ political career was deemed effectively over after most of his MPs crossed the aisle, and joined the Democrat Party. In fact, Yılmaz was barely elected as an Independent himself, running in the same province as Erdoğan, and barely scraping through to a victory. Upon his election, Yılmaz attempted to reassemble his Motherland Party (ANAP) by convincing MPs from other parties to join him, his caucus being seven man strong by the time Erdoğan was removed by the Supreme Court.

Yılmaz grabbed the opportunity to return as Prime Minister after more than nine years with both hands, and invited other nationalist parties, aside from Uzan’s Youth Party, to form a new government. This new coalition quickly proved to be unable to whither the new crisis that Turkey found itself in, as a significant part of the population considered them to be illegitimate, furthermore disagreements on fiscal policy, as well as outdated interpretation on the working mechanisms of the global economy, only further dragged the Turkish economy into a recession. Lastly, EU accession talks came to an immediate standstill. Led by Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Joost Langendijk, once one of the biggest supporters of Turkish membership, the EU effectively turned their back onto Turkey.

It would ultimately be domestic affairs that led to the quick downfall of the Yılmaz government, as his close links to organized crime were revealed in an investigative piece in the Cumhuriyet newspaper. Yılmaz’ close links weren’t a surprise to most people, as he was always known as a politician who rubbed shoulders with organized crime, though unlike the rest of the secular right he kept his distance from the Deep State, placing himself as one of the biggest opponents of the post-modern coup of 1997, despite the coup plotters installing him as PM immediately afterwards. Initially, few expected Yılmaz to fall as a result of this information, though voices calling for his removal became louder after it was revealed with which members of organized crime he was affiliated.

Sedat Peker had a long and violent past in both organized crime and the Turanist movement. Throughout the 1990s he continued his rise, building close relations with multiple politicians, though he would nevertheless be imprisoned in 1999 for protection racketeering, coercion, and more, though he would be imprisoned for less than a year after involvement by a still anonymous member of Yılmaz’ ANAP. Following Erdoğan’s rise to power, Peker was recruited by the “Ergenekon” conspiracy, and became an enforcer of the Deep State. When Yılmaz returned to power, Peker attempted to use a video of the new PM being beat up in an Hungarian night club over gambling debts as a way to blackmail him into rescinding many of the reforms Erdoğan had mate in the Southeast, and ordered him to hand power in the region back over to the military. To this day it is unknown who released all of this information, though the headquarters of Cumhuriyet would be shot at by multiple gunman, leading to the death of editor-in-chief Can Dündar, as well as four others.

President İhsanoğlu was horrified by all of this, having spent most of his life living abroad, the former academic wasn’t aware of just how bad things in Turkey were. He thus made the drastic decision to sack Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz, and called for a “clean society”, as well as declaring that “there is no authority above the people”. The speech would briefly propel the up-to-then still conservative President into brief stardom, and gave him enough room to nominate his preferred candidate for PM, as well as rolling back the power of the deep state.

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2009 - 2009: Kemal Derviş (Independent)
2009 - 2010: Kemal Derviş (Democratic Left)
2010 - 2010: Faik Öztrak (Democratic Left)

Calls for Kemal Derviş to run for Prime Minister ever since his return to Turkey, and had only grown ever since he was declared the savior of the economy following the ‘Derviş reforms’. He was popular with both leftists, and people on the right, serving both in the Ecevit cabinet as well as in Erdoğan’s first two years. After resigning as Minister of Economic Affairs, Derviş became Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, though an early return to Turkey seemed plausible as the CHP and DSP jointly nominated him for the presidency, in which he ultimately came second.

Derviş immediately resigned from the UN after İhsanoğlu offered him to form a government, and returned back to Turkey to much fanfare. Derviş invited all parties in parliament to take part in his new government, and filled his cabinet with young unknown names, which was unusual for a gerontocratic nation like Turkey. One of his most notable appointment was his former right-hand man Faik Öztrak, who served as MP for the CHP after leaving the DSP following its move away from nationalism, at Economic Affairs. The cabinet also included some members of the AKP’s successor parties, leading to some worrying about Derviş inviting Erdoğan back.

Initially, Derviş along with Öztrak focussed all their energy on restoring the Turkish economy. Most analysts expected the duo to repeat their austerity measures from 2001, though Derviş surprised everyone by going with (New) Keynesian spending instead. Despite initial worries of rising inflation rates, Derviş’ scheme worked as only Poland exited a state of recession quicker than Turkey. Not long after, Derviş finally decided to join a political party of his own, and announce his willingness to run in the upcoming elections.

Ever since Karayalçın was shot following the ban of the AKP, the DSP had been in a mess. As the party leader was more busy with his health concerns, the coalition of nationalistic social democrats and Kurdish moderates quickly were fighting for control, which the former won, as many Kurds merely felt like ‘guests’ in the DSP, and opted to leave the party and joined more radical Kurdish caucuses instead. The party was barely polling above the 5% threshold when Derviş announced his intention to run for its leadership, which he was pretty much given immediately. Derviş quickly put his allies to work on a party manifesto for the 2009 local elections, which ended up being a lite-version of the 2007 manifesto, as the calls for Kurdish and Queer rights were moderates a tad down, as well as placing a greater focus on the PM’s successes.

This development payed off, as former party leader Karayalçın was elected Mayor of Ankara, while Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who routinely attempted to mediate between the party’s two warring factions, was elected Mayor of Istanbul with over 40% of the vote. Victories in Izmir, Eskişehir, as well as several cities in the East and Southeast, saw the map color firmly blue, and only further cement Derviş’ image as Turkey’s savior. For a few months the PM truly seemed unstoppable, though a sex scandal, and his immediate resignation when it was revealed, ended his career just as quickly. Derviş went into semi-retirement afterwards, occasionally being mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.

One of the last things Derviş did as PM was to name his protégé Öztrak as his successor, and call for general elections. Though Öztrak respected his predecessor for all he did for his career, you did not have to be a mindreader to see that the only thing that Öztrak felt in 2010 towards his former boss was resentment, as Derviş dealt Öztrak a near impossible set of cards.

After multiple years of near constant political crisis, Turkey found itself in the midst of a moral crisis, and Öztrak thought he should react accordingly, removing LGBT+ almost completely from the party platform, as well as placing more emphasis on the nationalistic past of the party, and how its founder Ecevit was the hero who saved Turkish Cypriots from Greek domination. Only months after they had been convinced to come back, many progressives were shown the metaphorical door again, as the party became increasingly less distinguishable from the CHP, something which only became more apparent once the leader of the CHP, Deniz Baykal, had his own, more compromising, sex scandal, and was subsequently forced to resign. Many cartoonist had a field day with this comparison, though it was the new CHP leader, Önder Sav’s, love for cartoons that at least somewhat saved the DSP, as the CHP leader displayed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad during campaign events, which made the DSP, and its social moderatism, seem much more acceptable. Ultimately, Öztrak finished in an embarrassing fourth place, despite an improving economy, as his wooden campaign simply managed to make too many enemies, though the outgoing PM realized it could have always been worse.

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2010 - 2013: Abdüllatif Şener (Turkey)
2010 (Coalition) def. Mehmet Ali Şahin (People’s Voice), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement), Selahattin Demirtaş (Peace and Freedom), Faik Öztrak (Democratic Left), Abdüllatif Şener (Turkey), Önder Sav (Republican People’s), Süleyman Soylu (Democrat), Numan Kurtulmuş (Felicity), Cem Boyner (New Democracy Movement)

First elected to parliament in 1991, Abdüllatif Şener was always something of an anomaly in the Turkish Islamist movement. Despite almost always being one of the loudest internal critics, Şener still managed to continuously reach higher office, serving as Minister of Finance in the Islamist Erbakan government, and as Erdoğan’s Deputy PM during close to the entirety of his first term. A few weeks before the 2007 Constitutional Referendum Şener announced his opposition to the referendum, as well as his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister, and member of the AKP. Overnight Şener became a hero among those who voted “NO” in the referendum, as he was one of the most prominent Islamists to oppose the referendum.

Despite being offered a chance of another term in parliament by multiple parties, Şener decided to take a break, though he came back a year later as one of the biggest opponents of the Supreme Court’s ruling outside of the AKP. A few months later, Şener along with more than a dozen AKP remnants found the Turkey Party, becoming one of the many post-AKP parties, though undoubtedly one of the most moderate.

Şener’s Turkey Party attracted multiple high profile former AKP members, most notably the liberal Ali Babacan, as well as members of the ‘Islamic Left’ like Mehmet Bekaroğlu and Ertuğrul Günay. While Mehmet Ali Şahin took most of the party apparatus, and it’s supporters, it was vital for the Turkey Party to attract such attractive names, as a means to set itself apart from the numerous other centre-right parties.

Aside from the Turkey Party (TP), and the People’s Voice (HSP), other parties that participated in the election included; Devlet Bahçeli’s MHP as always, PM’s Öztrak’s DSP, the CHP under arch-Kemalist Önder Sav, The Democrat Party (DP) now led by Süleyman Soylu, after Ağır was quitely pushed away for being too close to the deep state, and now running on a centre-right to right-wing Kemalist platform, the Felicity Party (SP) under Numan Kurtulmuş, which is trying to take anti-Western Islamism back to the mainstream, and businessman Cem Boyner’s liberal New Democracy Movement (YDH).

However, the most notable party in the 2010 elections was undoubtedly Demirtaş’ BDP, as the Kurdish political movement finally decided to enter the elections united and independent from the DSP, along with their socialist and other minority allies. For a brief moment, the party polled as high as 20% indicating just how quickly the tide was shifting, though this did cause a reaction by many Turkish nationalists, who took their support to the MHP, the most notable anti-Kurdish party, in an effort to stop the rise of the BDP.

Ultimately, no party came even close to a majority, though it was the Islamist HSP which came first, showing that Erdoğanism still had plenty of fans in the nation. Nevertheless, Şahin’s HSP was excluded by many parties, and thus didn’t even come close to forming a majority, as a result President İhsanoğlu opted to invite second-placed Bahçeli instead, starting the longest coalition formation talks in the history of the Turkish Republic.

Almost 6 months later, a total of five parties agreed on forming a government, though in actuality they agreed on almost nothing, as the new government included both far-right parties like the MHP, as well as the liberal YDH, which was openly calling for Kurdish to be recognized as a co-official language in the Southeast. Abdüllatif Şener was picked as a compromise PM, being the only acceptable name for all five party leaders.

Şener’s government got off to a rocky start, as inflation rates continued to rise, and worries about the economy grew. The new government tried to counter this by doubling down on the continuation of so-called ‘Mega Projects’, as roads, bridges, and entire districts were being built for the past eight years, something which started under Erdoğan, and continued under Şener. These projects were mainly led by Minister of Infrastructure Mustafa Sarıgül (DSP), who also served under Derviş and Öztrak, during which he caught the ire of many environmental organizations, as well as left-wing groups, as many poor residents of especially Istanbul were removed to make place for gigantic hotels or shopping malls.

The anger towards this negligence of the environment, as well as continuing economic downfall, lack of progress on Kurdish rights and other civil liberties, as well as the police getting increasingly violent under Minister of the Interior and Democrat party leader Süleyman Soylu, all culminated into the Taksim protests, which quickly developed from small protests to protect a park in the Taksim square to strikes, marches, and protests across the country.

Soylu’s harsh tactics against the protesters only further inspired them, as the protests kept getting bigger and more pluralistic, with people from all walks of life and ideologies joining the protests, though the protests itself had a clear anti-capitalist perspective, calling for the end of neoliberalism, end new elections. Initially, Şener attempted to reason with the protesters, announcing that the park would be left alone, that he would enter new negotiations with the trade unions, and even fired the Chief of the Istanbul Police Department, though Soylu and his allies in the bureaucracy kept the PM from going ‘too far’.

Ultimately, all of it mattered very little as Mayor of Istanbul Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, already supportive of the protesters, marched from his mayoral office to the heart of Taksim, and stated in a televised speech that he would form a new political party, which would be based upon the ideals espoused by the Taksim protests. This announcement was met with thunderous applause by protesters nearby, turning the already popular mayor into a left-wing superstar. Seven days later enough DSP and YDH MPs had left to join the Mayor’s new party that Prime Minister Şener no longer had a majority, leading to another early election.

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2013 - 0000: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (Workers and Farmers)
2013 (Coalition) def. Süleyman Soylu (Democrat), Mehmet Ali Şahin (People’s Voice), Emine Ülker Tarhan (Republican People’s), Ali Koç (The Independents)
2014: Former ECHR Judge Rıza Türmen elected as President


Their guards, their judges and their prosecutors
All against the public
Laws, regulations, all decisions
All against the public
Magazines, newspapers, all publications
All against the public
None of this will save them
None of this will save them
They will not be able to stop the flowing flood of the people
They will not be able to stop the flowing flood of the people
Panzers, handcuffs, all their guns
All against the public
Dungeons, prisons, torture houses
All against the public
Exchanges, companies and their powers
All against the public
None of this will save them
None of this will save them
They will not be able to stop the flowing flood of the people
They will not be able to stop the flowing flood of the people
 
(AP 2018) "Turner said he once thought about running for president when he was married to Jane Fonda. He said she told him that if you run for office, you run alone."

List of Presidents of the United States

1993 - 2001: Bill Clinton/Al Gore (Democratic)
1992: George H.W. Bush / Dan Quayle (Republican)
1996: Bob Dole / Jack Kemp (Republican)

2001 - 2005: Ted Turner/Chris Dodd (Democratic)
2000: George W. Bush / Dick Cheney (Republican)
2005 - 2009: John McCain/Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Republican)
2004: Ted Turner/Chris Dodd (Democratic)
2009 - 2013: Ted Turner/Paul Wellstone (Democratic)
2008: John McCain/Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Republican)
2013 - 2021: Mitt Romney/Meg Whitman (Republican)
2012: Paul Wellstone/Jennifer Granholm (Democrat)
2016: Brian Schweitzer/Eric Garcetti (Democrat)

2021 -: Andrew Gillum/Melinda Gates (Democratic)
2020: Bobby Jindal/Joni Ernst (Republican)

"We’re the only first-world country that doesn't have universal healthcare and it's a disgrace."
- Democratic nominee for President Ted Turner during the 2000 presidential election debates.

"The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis ... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
- President Turner, 2002.

"Anyone who opposes the right to an abortion is a bozo."
- President Turner, 2002.

"Look, I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word ... I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it."
- President Turner, 2002.

"Iran is a sovereign state. We have 28,000 nuclear missiles. Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel‍—‌they've got 100 of them approximately‍—‌or India or Pakistan or Russia."
- President Turner during the 2004 presidential election debates.

"If we don't do something about global warming now most people are going to die and the rest of us will be cannibals."
- Ted Turner on the campaign trail, 2008.

“The Chinese are very smart. Just think: Have you ever met a dumb Chinaman?”
- President Turner on a state visit to China, 2010.

"I'm just wondering if God is telling us He doesn't want to drill offshore. And right before that, we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners... Maybe the Lord's tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off of them so they may get more coal. I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geothermals..."
- President Turner in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster.

"I keep thinking to myself that China's one child policy ought to be implemented here."
- President Turner, 2011.
 
(AP 2018) "Turner said he once thought about running for president when he was married to Jane Fonda. He said she told him that if you run for office, you run alone."

List of Presidents of the United States

1993 - 2001: Bill Clinton/Al Gore (Democratic)
1992: George H.W. Bush / Dan Quayle (Republican)
1996: Bob Dole / Jack Kemp (Republican)

2001 - 2005: Ted Turner/Chris Dodd (Democratic)
2000: George W. Bush / Dick Cheney (Republican)
2005 - 2009: John McCain/Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Republican)
2004: Ted Turner/Chris Dodd (Democratic)
2009 - 2013: Ted Turner/Paul Wellstone (Democratic)
2008: John McCain/Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Republican)
2013 - 2021: Mitt Romney/Meg Whitman (Republican)
2012: Paul Wellstone/Jennifer Granholm (Democrat)
2016: Brian Schweitzer/Eric Garcetti (Democrat)

2021 -: Andrew Gillum/Melinda Gates (Democratic)
2020: Bobby Jindal/Joni Ernst (Republican)

"We’re the only first-world country that doesn't have universal healthcare and it's a disgrace."
- Democratic nominee for President Ted Turner during the 2000 presidential election debates.

"The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis ... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
- President Turner, 2002.

"Anyone who opposes the right to an abortion is a bozo."
- President Turner, 2002.

"Look, I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word ... I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it."
- President Turner, 2002.

"Iran is a sovereign state. We have 28,000 nuclear missiles. Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel‍—‌they've got 100 of them approximately‍—‌or India or Pakistan or Russia."
- President Turner during the 2004 presidential election debates.

"If we don't do something about global warming now most people are going to die and the rest of us will be cannibals."
- Ted Turner on the campaign trail, 2008.

“The Chinese are very smart. Just think: Have you ever met a dumb Chinaman?”
- President Turner on a state visit to China, 2010.

"I'm just wondering if God is telling us He doesn't want to drill offshore. And right before that, we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners... Maybe the Lord's tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off of them so they may get more coal. I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geothermals..."
- President Turner in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster.

"I keep thinking to myself that China's one child policy ought to be implemented here."
- President Turner, 2011.
There's a story I once heard (and have never been able to corroborate, so take it with a lot of salt) about Ted Turner visiting the Soviet Union in the late '80s. His minders were showing him around all the sights, and he loved the whole thing, so eventually he asked, "This is all great - is there a way I can become an honorary member of the Communist Party?"

They took the question upstairs, and eventually said, "We don't really do that - but if you want, we can make you an honorary member of the trade union for journalists here."

Turner thought for a moment, and then replied, "No, I'm sorry, I can't do that - I'm ideologically opposed to labor unions."
 
There's a story I once heard (and have never been able to corroborate, so take it with a lot of salt) about Ted Turner visiting the Soviet Union in the late '80s. His minders were showing him around all the sights, and he loved the whole thing, so eventually he asked, "This is all great - is there a way I can become an honorary member of the Communist Party?"

They took the question upstairs, and eventually said, "We don't really do that - but if you want, we can make you an honorary member of the trade union for journalists here."

Turner thought for a moment, and then replied, "No, I'm sorry, I can't do that - I'm ideologically opposed to labor unions."
Ted Turner as the American equivalent to post-Deng CCP.
 
There's a story I once heard (and have never been able to corroborate, so take it with a lot of salt) about Ted Turner visiting the Soviet Union in the late '80s. His minders were showing him around all the sights, and he loved the whole thing, so eventually he asked, "This is all great - is there a way I can become an honorary member of the Communist Party?"

They took the question upstairs, and eventually said, "We don't really do that - but if you want, we can make you an honorary member of the trade union for journalists here."

Turner thought for a moment, and then replied, "No, I'm sorry, I can't do that - I'm ideologically opposed to labor unions."
I've heard that story before but it was in the PRC. Dunno if it's true but it has endured for a long time.
 
This at one point was meant to be based on @Wolfram's take on First Contact. I lost track of that a long time ago, so here's a list of fictional PMs.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
2010-2020: Martin Wallace (Conservative)
'10 (CON-LIBDEM COALITION): def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Sir Menzies "Ming" Campbell (Liberal Democrats)
'14 (MAJORITY): def. Margaret Alcott (Labour), Charles Russell (Liberal Democrats), Theresa Aitkens (SNP)
'18 (MINORITY WITH DUP CONFIDENCE): def. Leo Sampson (Labour), Theresa Aitkens (SNP), Jane Penrose (Liberal Democrats)
'19 Scottish independence referendum: 52.2% YES def. 47.8% NO
2020-2020: Terence McGovern (Conservative)
Apr. '20 leadership election: Terence McGovern def. Sarah Rye
'20 informal vote of no confidence: 187 MPs def. 118 MPs
2020-2021: Sarah Rye (Conservative)
Jun. '20 leadership election: unopposed (following elimination of Sam Mercer)
2021-2028: Leo Sampson (Labour)
'21 (MAJORITY): def. Sarah Rye (Conservative), Theresa Aitkens (SNP), Jane Penrose (Liberal Democrats), Clark Ross (Unionist)
'25 (MAJORITY): def. W. Logan Boateng (Conservative), Yasmin Feingold (Liberal Democrats), Norman Buchanan (Sovereignty)
Feb. '28 (MINORITY): def. James Heathcliffe (Conservative), Norman Buchanan (Sovereignty), Yasmin Feingold (Liberal Democrats)
2028-2030: James Heathcliffe (Conservative)
Nov. '28 (CON-SOV COALITION): def. Leo Sampson (Labour), Norman Buchanan (Sovereignty), Sir Mick Edison (Liberal Democrats)
2030-2044: Lucas Merrill (Labour)
'30 (MAJORITY): def. James Heathcliffe (Conservative), Sir Mick Edison (Liberal Democrats), Geoff Barton (Sovereignty)
'34 (MAJORITY): def. Nicole Crawford-Davison (Conservative), Sir Mick Edison (Liberal Democrats), Nick Schrio (Green), Mark Bedford (Sovereignty)
'38 (MAJORITY): def. Andy Fortune (Conservative), Mark Bedford (Sovereignty), Christina Derricks (Green), Colin Aldridge (Liberal Democrats)
'42 (MAJORITY): def. Chris Simmons & Colin Aldridge (Conservative-LibDem coupon), Peter Withaker (Sovereignty), Christina Derricks (Green)
2044-2049: Vaughan Philipps (Labour)
'45 (MAJORITY): def. Chris Simmons (National), Peter Withaker (BPP), Kwame Everett (Green)
2049-0000: Alan Gething (National)
'49 (MAJORITY): def. Vaughan Philipps (Labour), Kwame Everett (Green), Cindy Wallach (BPP)
  • Campbell is couped in '13 by Russell, who yanks the LibDems out of the coalition and sends the UK into an early election
  • Wallace wins his majority, but the LibDems never backtracking on university tuition means that they're not quite as battered
  • Wallace spends the next 6 years shambling towards oblivion as Scottish nationalism surges in popularity and Labour gains ground
  • Thinking he can squeeze Labour on Scottish independence and an easy win, Wallace whips the Tories to approve a Scottish referendum.
    Things go wrong.
  • McGovern attempts to reboot the UK economy ala Truss and fails just as miserably; this combined with the Scottish parliament rejecting a secession deal from Westminister triggers a successful VoNC against his leadership.
  • Rye is elected to fix the mess but a cost of living crisis triggers a successful VoNC against the ministry.
  • Sampson wins his majority despite initial headwinds (that dissipate as the cost of living crisis hits the UK) and does alright. With that said, he's never quite buddy-buddy with either the Blairites or the left.
  • Still, with the Scottish issue being handled with competence and the re-nationalisation of the Royal Mail and the National Rail is able to get Labour its feted second term.
  • The Sampson ministry is brought down by a cabinet splinter that culminates in the firing of Chancellor Claire Olsen; despite this somehow rallying the party's support behind the PM it ultimately leads to the Tories coming out on top thanks to the ex-Scottish Unionists.
  • Supposed-One Nation Tory Heathcliffe is forced to govern to the hard-right thanks to his unsavoury coalition with the Sovereignists, which leads to nothing but infighting as the global economy sinks into the quicksand. Sovereign leader Buchanan is recalled, and replacement Barton decides to bring down the government after the failure to pass a "draconian" immigration bill.
  • The tag-team of Merrill and Philipps wins an absolute landslide in 2030 as the British right sinks to the Marianas Trench. Cue 19 years of back-to-back Labour majorities as the British Conservative Party self-destructs.
 
Follow-up, experimenting with a new format.

Each Dixie Boy Must Understand...

Historical rankings of the Presidents of the United States of America, per the Study of American Leadership, 2007

1. [LIST BEGINS]

...

4. John Sherman (Unionist, 1885 - 1893)
Restored American national pride after the "years of shame" with victory in the War of 1887. Reincorporated Northern Virginia and (following a plebiscite) Kentucky; secured the independence of Cuba and the restored Mexican Republic. Vetoed proposed Oriental Exclusion Acts and advocated for civil rights and stronger regulation of business, ushered in the Fifth Era of U.S. politics (c. 1884 - 1924). Reputation harmed in recent years by critical analysis of 'genocidal' policies towards American Indians [1], and monetarist criticism of the economic impacts of adherence to a strict gold standard.
Hello, I know it's been ages since this was posted but, well first of all it's great and I really love it. Second of all... would you mind if I borrowed the idea of a vengeful, bloody shirt-waving, "Unionist" party-founding President John Sherman in a larger pyrrhic Confederate victory timeline I've been working on for quite a while myself? The character of John Sherman just meshes so well with the ideas I already have laid out for it, and I'd likely end up doing something quite similar to what you've done with him in my larger world, but I obviously don't want to rip it from you without permission and I understand if you're not comfortable with me taking it.
 
"Solving racism in America"

List of Governors of Georgia

2011 - 2019: Nathan Deal (Republican)
2010: Roy Barnes (Democratic)
2014: Jason Carter (Democratic)

2019 - 2027: Brian Kemp (Republican)
2018: Stacey Abrams (Democratic)
2022: Stacey Abrams (Democratic)

2027 - 2033: Cody Rhodes (Democratic)
2026: Burt Jones (Republican)
2030: Nick Ayers (Republican)


List of Presidents of the United States

2021 - 2025: Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2020: Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)
2025 - 2033: Ron De Santis / Kristi Noem (Republican)
2024: Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2028: Gretchen Whitmer / Ruben Gallego (Democratic)

2033 - : Cody Rhodes / Ayanna Pressley (Democratic)
2032: Kristi Noem / Tim Scott (Republican)

President Rhodes at his inauguration speech, January 2033: “Prior to 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia, there was segregation. Blacks and whites could not attend the same school. In 2021 in the very same city, my wife gave birth to a beautiful white, a beautiful black, American princess that will have both identities and shun neither.”
 
"Solving racism in America"

List of Governors of Georgia

2011 - 2019: Nathan Deal (Republican)
2010: Roy Barnes (Democratic)
2014: Jason Carter (Democratic)

2019 - 2027: Brian Kemp (Republican)
2018: Stacey Abrams (Democratic)
2022: Stacey Abrams (Democratic)

2027 - 2033: Cody Rhodes (Democratic)
2026: Burt Jones (Republican)
2030: Nick Ayers (Republican)


List of Presidents of the United States

2021 - 2025: Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2020: Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)
2025 - 2033: Ron De Santis / Kristi Noem (Republican)
2024: Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2028: Gretchen Whitmer / Ruben Gallego (Democratic)

2033 - : Cody Rhodes / Ayanna Pressley (Democratic)
2032: Kristi Noem / Tim Scott (Republican)

President Rhodes at his inauguration speech, January 2033: “Prior to 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia, there was segregation. Blacks and whites could not attend the same school. In 2021 in the very same city, my wife gave birth to a beautiful white, a beautiful black, American princess that will have both identities and shun neither.”

The American Dream indeed.
 
Presidents of the United States:
2017-2023: Donald Trump (Republican)
'16 (w. Mike Pence): def. Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine (D)
'19: First impeachment of Donald Trump; acquittal (52-48, 53-47)
'20 (w. Mike Pence): def. Joe Biden / Elizabeth Warren (D)
'23: Second impeachment of Donald Trump; conviction (68-31-1, 68-32)
2023-2025: Mike Pence (Republican)
'23: First Capitol Attack to prevent conviction vote of Donald Trump; 27 deaths
'23: Confirmation of Mark Milley as Vice President
2025-0000: J. B. Pritzker (Democratic-Build Back Better)
'24 (w. Jennifer Carroll Foy): def. Doug Ducey / Nikki Haley (Republican), Donald Trump Jr. / Lauren Boebert (Patriot)
'25: Second Capitol Attack to prevent certification of 2024 election results; 0 deaths, crowd dispersed by National Guard
 
Part one of my really cursed timeline called The Heavens' Grand Plan.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1940-1984)
Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1940-1944
Clement Attlee (Labour) 1944-1949
1944 [maj.]: def. Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Richard Acland (Common Wealth)
Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1949-1953
1949 [maj.]: def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Tom Wintringham (Common Wealth)
Anthony Eden (Conservative) 1953-1957
1953 [maj.]: def. Harold Morrison (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Tom Wintringham (Common Wealth)
R. A. Butler (Conservative) 1957-1958
Hugh Gaitskell (Labour | SLA) 1958-1964
1958 [maj.]: def. R. A. Butler (Conservative), Philip Fothergill (Liberal), Oliver Baldwin (Common Wealth)
1962 [maj.]: def. R. A. Butler (Conservative | EDA), Honor Balfour (Liberal | ELR), Bertrand Russell (Radical | ERA)

Roy Jenkins (Labour | SLA) 1964-1971
1966 [coal. with Alternative]: def. Quintin Hogg (Conservative | EDA), Honor Balfour and Benjamin Britten (Liberal & Radical Alternative | ELR/ERA)
Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative | EDA) 1971-1978
1971 [coal. with Liberals]: def. Roy Jenkins (Labour | SLA), Honor Balfour and Benjamin Britten (Liberal & Radical Alternative | ELR/ERA), Jimmy Reid (Communist | ECP), Alan Lomas and Teddy Taylor (Independent Liberal/Scottish Unionist Alliance | NI)
1973 [maj.]: def. Roy Jenkins (Labour | SLA), Eric Heffer (Communist | ECP), Fenner Brockway (Radical | ERA), Alan Lomas and Teddy Taylor (Freedom | NI), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal | ELR)

Roy Jenkins (Labour | SLA) 1978-1983
1978 [coal. with Radicals and Liberals]: def. Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative | EDA), Albert Booth (Radical | PEOPLE), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal | ELR), James Goldsmith and Teddy Taylor (Freedom | NI), Tony Benn (European Democratic Left), Eric Heffer (Communist | ECP), Andrew Fountaine (League of National Loyalists | EPL)
Tony Benn (European Democratic Left) 1983-1984
1983 [coal. with Labour and Radicals]: def. Paul Channon (Conservative | EDA), Alan Sked (Freedom | NI), Roy Jenkins (Labour | SLA), Beatrix Campbell (Radical | PEOPLE), Andrew Fountaine (League of National Loyalists | EPL), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal | ELR), Eric Heffer (Communist | ECP)

"It is to re-create the European family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the UK 1940-1944 and 1949-1953, Chairman of the European Defence Council 1950-1951. "Father of Europe".

"The fact is that this episode must be recognised as part of the struggle for the mastery of the Middle East. That is something which I do not feel that we can ignore. One may ask, "Why does it involve the rest of the Middle East?" It is because of the prestige issues which are involved here. ... Prestige has quite considerable effects. If Colonel Nasser's prestige is put up sufficiently and ours is put down sufficiently, the effects of that in that part of the world will be that our friends desert us because they think we are lost, and go over to Egypt."
- Hugh Gaitskell, Prime Minister of the UK 1958-1964, justifying the Suez War of 1959 [which led to the breakdown of Euro-American relations].

"My wish is to build an effective united Europe. Now I've never sought absolutely to define exactly what I mean by this, but I've got an absolute clear sense of direction. I've never been frightened about the pace being too fast, I have been frightened about the pace being too slow. I do not think it's terribly useful to lay down blueprints as to whether one will be federal or confederal in the year 2000 and beyond. I want to move towards a more effectively organised Europe politically and economically and as far as I am concerned I want to go faster, not slower."
- Roy Jenkins, Prime Minister of the UK 1964-1971 and 1978-1983, in 1967 defending the creation of the Assembly of Europe.

"Se i giovani si organizzano, si impadroniscono di ogni ramo del sapere e lottano con i lavoratori e gli oppressi, non c'è scampo per un vecchio ordine fondato sul privilegio e sull'ingiustizia." ["If young people organise themselves, seize every branch of knowledge and fight with the workers and the oppressed, there is no escape for an old order founded on privilege and injustice."]
- Enrico Berlinguer, President of the European Federation 1984-1993, at a rally during the Springtime Revolution of 1983-4.
 
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The Reid Machine
Wrecked by Reagan, Welded by Reid
Presidents of the United States of America:
38. Gerald R. Ford
(Republican) 1974-1975
Vice President: none, then Nelson Rockefeller

39. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican) 1975-1977
Vice President: none, then George Bush Sr.
40. Ronald Reagan (Republican) 1977-1981
Vice President: Richard Schweikert

'76: def. Jimmy Carter / Frank Church (Democratic)
41. Harry Reid (Democratic) 1981-1989
Vice President: Joseph Biden ('81-'86), then Elizabeth Holtzman ('86-'89)

'80: def. Ronald Reagan / Paul Laxalt (Republican), John B. Anderson / Pat Lucey (Independent)
'84: def. Pat Robertson / Bob Dole (Republican), John B. Anderson / Ross Perot (Reform)
42. Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic) 1989-1993
Vice President: Gary Hart

'88: def. Richard Schweikert / Lowell Weicker (Republican)
43. John Silber (Republican) 1993-1997
Vice President: Bob Livingston

'92: def. Elizabeth Holtzman / Sam Nunn (Democratic), Jack Welch / Dan Boren (Reform)
44. Donald J. Trump (Democratic) 1997-2005
Vice President: Jerry Litton

'96: def. John Silber / Bob Livingston (Republican), Bill Clinton / Lowell Weicker (Reform)
'00: def. Jesse Ventura / Colin Powell (Republican)
45. George "Dubya" Bush Jr. (Republican) 2005-2013
Vice President: John Kasich

'04: def. Jerry Litton / Jim Hodges (Democratic), Ralph Nader / Cynthia McKinney (Green)
'08: def. Mickey Leland / Jeanne Shaheen (Democratic), Michael Bloomberg / Angus King (Americans Elect)
46. Beau Biden (Democratic) 2013-2015
Vice President: Raul Grijalva

'12: def. John Kasich / Elizabeth Herring (Republican)
47. Raul Grijalva (Democratic) 2015-2017
Vice President: none, then Bob Kerrey
48. Doug Mastriano (Republican) 2017-2021
Vice President: Reince Priebus

'16: def. Raul Grijalva / Travis Childers (Democratic), Bill Clinton / Jon Huntsman Jr. (Americans Elect)
49. Mandle Barnes (Democratic) 2021-present
Vice President: Rory Reid

'20: def. Doug Mastriano / Reince Priebus (Republican)

Colors:
Democratic: D14841
Republican: 333399
Reform: 54ACD2
Americans Elect: 475577
Green: 00A885
Independent: A38F84
 
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Been working on a space program-centered timeline which I'm calling "Universal Dreams" with someone who I don't think is on this site over the past few days, so here's a list of presidents for it so far. I'm aware this list isn't the most outstanding or original out there, the timeline is going to focus more on rockets anyway, this is just the political backdrop.

Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States (1961-1989)

1961-1963
President
John F. Kennedy✟ (Democratic, Massachusetts) / Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic, Texas)
1960 def. Vice President Richard Nixon (Republican, California) / Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican, Massachusetts)


1963-1969
President Lyndon B. Johnson
(Democratic, Texas) / None (1963-1965), Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Democratic, Minnesota, 1965-1969)
1964 def. Senator Barry Goldwater (Republican, Arizona) / Representative William E. Miller (Republican, New York)


1969-1972
President Richard Nixon
☨ (Republican, California) / Vice President Spiro Agnew (Republican, Maryland)
1968 def. Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Democratic, Minnesota) / Senator Edmund Muskie (Democratic, Maine), Governor George Wallace (American Independent, Alabama) / General Curtis LeMay (American Independent, California)


1972-1973
President Spiro Agnew
✘ (Republican, Maryland) / None (1972-1973), Vice President John Connally (Republican, Texas, 1973-1973)
1972 def. Senator George McGovern (Democratic, South Dakota) / former Governor Endicott Peabody (Democratic, Massachusetts)


1973-1977
President John Connally
(Republican, Texas) / None (1973-1974), Vice President Guy Vander Jagt (Republican, Michigan, 1974-1977)


1977-1981
President Robert F. Kennedy
(Democratic, Massachusetts) / Vice President John Glenn (Democratic, Ohio)
1976 def. President John Connally (Republican, Texas) / Vice President Guy Vander Jagt (Republican, Michigan)


1981-1989
President Ronald Reagan
(Republican, California) / Vice President Donald Rumsfeld (Republican, Illinois)
1980 def. President Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic, Massachusetts) / Vice President John Glenn (Democratic, Ohio)
1984 def. former Vice President John Glenn (Democratic, Ohio) / Senator Walter Mondale (Democratic, Minnesota)



✟ - Assassinated while in office.
☨ - Died while in office.
✘ - Resigned from office.
 
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1913 - 1921: Woodrow Wilson / Thomas R. Marshall (Democrat)
1912 def. Theodore Roosevelt / Hiram Johnson (Progressive), William Howard Taft / Nicholas M. Butler [replacing James S. Sherman] (Republican), Eugene Debs / Emil Seidel (Socialist)
1916 def. Charles Evans Hughes / Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican), Eugene Debs / Kate Richards O’Hare (Socialist)

1921 - 1923: Henry Cabot Lodge / William Borah (Republican)
1920 def. Woodrow Wilson / Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat)
1923 - 1925: William Borah / vacant (Republican)
1925 - 1930: Calvin Coolidge / Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican)
1924 def. William Gibbs McAdoo / Ernest M. Hopkins (Democrat), William Borah / Victor Murdock (Independent endorsed by IWW)
1928 def. Al Smith / Oscar Underwood (Democrat), Bill Haywood / Maximilian Cohen (Communist)

1930 - 1930: Wesley Livsey Jones / vacant (Republican)
1930 - 1932: Andrew W. Mellon / vacant (Republican)
1932 - 1933: Frederick H. Gillett / vacant (Republican)
1933 - 1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John W. Davis (Democrat)
1932 def. John Reed / J. Louis Engdahl (Communist), Charles Evans Hughes / Gifford B. Pinchot (Republican)
1934 - 1934: John W. Davis (Liberty League supported by the Christian Army)
1934 - 1937: Franklin D. Roosevelt / vacant (Popular Front: Democrat-Communist)
1937 - 0000: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Jay Lovestone (Popular Front)
1936 def. Gifford B. Pinchot / Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Progressive), Nathan Miller / Oscar Underwood (National Union)

Eugene Debs has often been dubbed by foreign media as the “American Karl Liebknecht” for his role in revolutionary opposition to American involvement in the Great War, as well as his ultimate death at the hands of capital, though at home he is more often compared to the great Vladimir Lenin himself. This may sound surprising to foreign ears, as unlike Jay Lovestone, Earl Browder and Joseph P. Lash, Debs never really came close to reaching the highest offices of the American government, with his highest achievement being a single term in the Indiana Assembly. Nevertheless, Debs was a clear rising star in American politics, having run back-to-back for president five times, reaching his best result in 1916 by getting 6.4% of the vote on the Socialist party ticket.

After already scaring the established capitalist order in 1912, Debs became an even bigger subject in the 1916 election with the two established capitalist parties (the Democrats and Republicans) fearmongering that a victory of the other party’s candidate would lead to them being indebted to the socialist union leader, though Debs himself was just as often attacked, especially for his stringent opposition to American involvement in the Great War, as well as general opposition to the entire affair. Ultimately, incumbent Woodrow Wilson won the election after successfully triangulating between the pro-War campaign of the Republicans and anti-War campaign of the Socialist Debs.

Despite voicing opposition to immediate involvement in the Great War, the recently re-elected Woodrow Wilson would still enthusiastically draw the United States into the conflict, only days after his second inauguration, having successfully convinced the American congress after the sinking of the SS Vaderland by the Kriegsmarine, and the death of more than 150 American passengers on board. Even though there was some opposition to involvement in the war by parts of the capitalist class, most notably the industrialist Henry Ford, most of the opposition came from socialists, and affiliated trade unions like the Industrial Workers of the World. One of the biggest opponents of the declaration of war would once again be Eugene Debs, who was called a “traitor to the country” by President Wilson, and ultimately imprisoned in September 1918, he would die just a year later, still being held in captivity for his opposition to the imperialist war.

Debs’ death sent shockwaves throughout the American public. The Great War had ended a few weeks earlier, and the imperialist powers of Germany and Russia were in the midst of a revolution. With the proletariat of significant parts of Europe having seized the means of production, many American socialists wished for the same to happen in the United States, though material conditions seemed far from ripe for such events to happen. Nevertheless, Debs’ sudden death in captivity inspired multiple wildcat strikes, which quickly developed into calls for a General Strike by the IWW, as well as numerous other sympathetic unions. Few expected the attempt at revolution to amount to much, and they were proven right as the government put it down brutally, and persecuted, and at times even killed, many of those involved with the general strike. A lucky few managed to flee to Germany or Russia, with the latter playing host to one of the most important moments in American history, as members of the Socialist Party-in-exile overwhelmingly voted to join the Third International, renaming the party as the ‘Communist Party’, while the minority right-wing of the party opted to vote against the Third International, and formed the ‘Social Democratic Party’, after the German SPD, who took a neutral stance in the revolutionary violence between the Communists and Freikorps.

Neither party was able to play a prominent role in the 1920 elections, as the Palmer Raids, named after Wilson’s Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, made attempts at left-wing assembly near impossible. The Communist Party ultimately managed to enter the election under the names of numerous different parties, and barely played a role, as the Democratic Woodrow Wilson, who had bullied his party into allowing him to seek an unprecedented third term, and Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge brought their fight over American entrance into the League of Nations all the way to the Presidential election, where Lodge would win in a landslide, and defeat any hopes of the continuation of Wilsonian Idealism.

Lodge’s victory initially changed very little for the American Communist movement, as the American bourgeoisie continued its opposition to even allowing the American worker to breath, though Palmer’s successor, and 1916 nominee, Charles Evans Hughes did tamper down the persecution of trade unionists by a bit. The American left would only get a resident in the White House with some level of sympathy for the American worker upon Lodge’s death, and his succession by the liberal progressive Borah.

William Edgar Borah was one of the most vocal opponents of American entry into the League of Nations, as well as championing the cause of women’s suffrage, and opposition to involvement in the Great War. This did not translate into any genuine support for the goals of the Communist movement, but it did allow the suffocating effects of the boot of capitalism to slightly lessen, as those involved in the events of 1918 were granted amnesty, and allowed to return to the United States. Borah would gain further support from the communist movement by opening trade relations with the Lenin’s Soviet Union, and leading negotiations during the German revolution of 1923, which did not just give the KPD room to restrengthen, but also gave the German people ten years of relative calm, after almost a decade of various forms of political violence. For his efforts, the Republican party rewarded him by replacing him with Lodge protégé, and Borah friend-turned-foe, Senator Coolidge, who went on to defeat Wilson’s son-in-law, and the Independent candidacy of Borah, who won several Western states, and was endorsed by Communist-aligned trade unions.

Following the horrors of the Great War, the United States had entered a period of relative welfare, as the economy seemed to be in an uptick, and at least some of this trickled down to the American proletariat, though this did not tamper the growth of Communist Party, which built a small congressional delegation of its own on the coattails of Borah, and continued to improve on this during the Coolidge years, though they were still in a distant third compared to the Republican and Democratic party.

This all changed with the crash of the American banking system in 1929, and the devastating effects it had on the American worker and farmer. The radicalism of 1918 suddenly resurfaced again, and first became apparent to the nation in the 1930 midterms, where numerous Communist, as well as Democratic, candidates defeated Republican incumbents, and later on through more direct actions, as factory occupations became an increasingly common occurrence in American cities.

Coolidge would not be alive to see the worst of the consequences of the crash, as he passed away in the summer of 1930, he was succeeded by his Vice President Wesley Livsey Jones, who continued the failing laissez-faire economics of his former boss, as well as doubling down on prohibition. Another similarity between Coolidge and Jones was that they would both die in 1930. Secretary of State George Brinton McClellan Harvey’s death just eight days earlier gave an increasing amount of communists the believe that American capitalist was literally dying. Unfortunately, the next person in the line of succession was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.

Compared to Mellon, Coolidge and Jones seemed like Bernsteinists, as they at the very least did not attempt to purposefully underfund the state, as well as did not seek the confrontation with the communist movement like Mellon, who routinely unleashed the police, as well as ultra-reactionary paramilitaries, upon striking workers. This became very apparent during the “Hunger March” where left-wing veterans of the Great War led a protest to Washington D.C. where they were interrupted and attacked by the police. Seventeen protesters, one of them as young as fifteen, died following the attack of the police. The Communist Party gained its best results to date in the 1930 midterms, as the party saw its Senate delegation grow to eight members, and controlled more than 15% of the House of Representatives. More importantly, the Republican party had lost its majority in both chambers, and came to rely on the segregationist Democrats for support.

Admittedly, there were more progressive movements than just the communists who protested against the injustices that the American workers and farmers faced. One of the biggest groups was the ‘Jobless Army’ of James R. Cox, a capitalist priest. Cox led his “army” into another protest in Washington D.C., where he hoped that due to his movement’s less radical message, as well as more varied make-up, they would not be welcomed with a similar level of violence. Unfortunately, Father Cox would be proven wrong as miscommunication between General Douglas MacArthur and President Andrew Mellon lead to a massacare of the peaceful protesters.

For some time congress had been getting increasingly frustrated with the president, though any talks of removal was out of the question, as they thought the rapid succession of presidents only added to the worsening of the crises. Mellon and MacArthur’s response to Cox’ Army changed all of this, and Speaker Gillett, who was the next in line due to changes made to the law, accepted to hear articles of impeachment on the President. When Mellon realized his days were numbered, he decided to resign himself, and handed Gillett the keys to the White House. Old man Gillett would serve briefly, and refuse to run for the Republican nomination, on account of his age, and instead focussed his brief presidency on refilling the cabinet, and getting the government at least somewhat reinvolved in mitigating the economic crisis.

Ever since the end of the Great War, the Democratic party had fount itself in a state of crisis. Communism may not have yet been popular among large swaths of the American populace, but neither was the heavy handed approach by Wilson’s cabinet. Opposition to the President only grew when he decided to seek a third term, and fears of the establishment of a German-style dictatorship led to voters harshly rejecting the Democratic party across the board.

The Democrats only improved slightly in 1922, though Wilson’s influence became apparent again in 1924, when he intervened in the DNC to force the nomination of his son-in-law McAdoo, who only barely managed to get a higher percentage of the popular vote than Independent Borah. Wilson’s death in 1926, as well as rising opposition to him among the rank-and-file, led to McAdoo losing the nomination to an alliance of Catholic New York Governor Al Smith, and anti-prohibition Southerner Oscar Underwood. 1920 Vice-Presidential nominee, and close Smith ally, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech in favor of the New York Governor proved vital in his victory in the primaries, and Smith awarded Roosevelt by nominating him as the successor to Republican Senator Alanson B. Houghton, who had passes away after a car crash in July 1929.

Roosevelt quickly built a brand of his own in the Senate, proving himself an energetic opponent of the fiscal policy of the various Republican presidents, while also being critical of the actions of his Communist colleagues. Calls for Roosevelt to run grew quickly, and by the time the 1932 DNC rolled around, he was one of the two favorites, the other being his former mentor-turned-foe Al Smith. Roosevelt ultimately managed to clinch the nomination, after promising uneasy conservatives within the party that he would nominate one of their own as his running mate, landing on former Ambassador to the UK John W. Davis from West Virginia.

Although many in the Democratic Party were confident that 1932 was finally their year, the rise of the Communist Party had them worried, as the party drew bigger and more bold crowds than ever before. Many within the American bourgeoisie also noticed this trend, and slowly decided to abandon the flailing campaign of Republican Charles Edward Hughes, who never really had his heart in the race in the first place, and started to consolidate behind Senator Roosevelt, as fears of communism grew day by day. This gamble ultimately proved to be correct, as Roosevelt won a relatively comfortable victory, though the Communist Party did gain more than 30% of the vote for the first time, as well as controlling close to a third of the House of Representatives, and having a whopping 20 Senators.

Unlike his Republican predecessors, Roosevelt was unable to ignore the Communist Party, and met with both presidential nominee and journalist John Reed, as well as Party Leader Jay Lovestone during the transition to his presidency. While Roosevelt did not wish for any form of close cooperation with the Communists, despite his wife Eleanor’s support for it, he did agree with the party on some immediate action to improve the conditions of the American workers. To many ultra-reactionaries within the Democratic and Republican party this low level of cooperation already made him a communist-sympathizer at the very least, and they blocked any further spending attempts by him. The Communists were similarly wary of propping up his capitalist government, concluding that the conditions for a revolution were ripe, with Congresswoman Alice Barrows even comparing the American President to Alexander Kerensky, and making fun of his attempts to emulate British Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s centre-left cabinet’s program of Keynesian spending. By the fall of 1933, Roosevelt’s presidency seemed to have already ended before it even really began, though most of the world’s eyes were too focussed on the situation in Germany to notice this.

Ever since 1923, a liberal democratic regime was barely held in place by Chancellor Gustav Stresemann, who was in a coalition with the faux-socialist SPD and more moderate members of the German Armed Forces. This coalition was onto increasingly shaky grounds as the economic depression in Germany, and collapsed following Stresseman’s death, with German President Wilhelm Marx (no relation) decided to nominate a more reactionary chancellor, in the form of Wilhelm Groener, in order to save his own presidency. While German parliament at least worked to some extent up to 1932, things truly came to a standstill after the 1932 parliamentary election as Rosa Luxemburg’s KPD and Herman Erhardt’s super-ultra-reactionary NSFB together held a majority. Afterwards, the country slowly spiraled into civil war as Groener won a close third-way presidency, albeit with clear engagement in voter fraud, and by 1933 the Erhardt Brigade and Spartakists were shooting at each other, while paramilitaries affilited with the SDP and other bourgeoisie parties attempted to form a third side, though the war was mostly between the Communists and Imperialists.

Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States opted to stay neutral during the civil war, though Roosevelt did not block any attempts by the American Communist Party, and its affiliates, to aid the Spartakists, wishing to not cause further conflict with the Communists. Even though Roosevelt’s official policy was more comparable to triangulation, reactionaries from both the Democratic and Republican party truly started to believe that Roosevelt was a communist. More importantly, many within the upper echelons of the American bourgeoisie started to entertain these thoughts as well, as the likes of J. P. Morgan, Herbert Hoover, Robert Sterling Clark and Thomas W. Lamont started to talk less and less quietly about a coup to ‘save’ the Republic. These bankers and businessman found in Georhe van Horn Moseley a sympathetic general, and slowly built a coalition of pro-coup actors that would form the American Libert League. Most notably of all, they managed to convince the Vice President to be supportive of the coup attempt, and take over the government following the neutralization of President Roosevelt.

Their plan would go ahead on the 4th of June 1934, when members of William Dudley Pelley’s Christian Army opened fire on the President in North Carolina, where he was to promote his ‘New Deal’ agenda. Two bullets hit the President, one of them hitting him in the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down. Fourteen people would die in the attack, most notably President Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor, though the President himself ultimately survived the attack. Following news of the attack, Albert Coady Wedemeyer led a small battalion into Washington D.C., and instructed Vice President Davis to deliver a radio message to the nation.

John W. Davis’ “Address to the American Nation” is how most of the American people became aware of the coup attempt. In this speech Davis celebrated the “patriotic” actions of the coup plotters, and accused Roosevelt of plotting with the Communist Party, in order to drag the United States into a civil war like Germany. Davis’ speech failed to generate support for the coup, as the plotters had hoped. He was uncharacteristically emotional throughout his speech, and his justification of the murder of the President and the wife led to many Americans not supporting the coup, with even many non-leftists joining the Communist Party in resisting against the coup attempt.

Within just two days the coup d’état collapsed on itself, as many members of the armed forces refused to join in, and were waiting for orders from Douglas MacArthur, who had seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth. Furthermore, the Communist party had prepared itself for an insurrection for the past few years, and was thus more than a match for the small size of the pro-coup army, as well as the less professional super-ultra-reactionary paramilitaries. The biggest cause of the failure of the coup, was Roosevelt’s swift recovery, and his calls for the American people to join the Communists in resisting the coup. By the twelfth of the month, Roosevelt had returned to the White House, albeit in a wheelchair, and the coup plotters, among which the Vice President, had been arrested.

Even though they had just saved Roosevelt, many Communists were already preparing to overthrow them again, though these plans had to be suddenly halted when Chairman Vladimir Lenin sent a secret message to Jay Lovestone, and the governing body of the American Communist Party, instructing them to consolidate their gains, and not make any further attempts at monopolizing power. Lenin continued by arguing that the USSR would not be able to fund two civil wars at the same time, and the increasingly worsening situation in Germany should enjoy the main focus of the global proletariat at that point of time. Although some within the ultra-left of the party rebelled against Lenin’s letter, and engaged in wildcat strikes and assassinations of far-right public figures, most of the party adhered to the Comintern’s line, and entered the negotiating room with Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt held more sympathy for the communist movement than he had shared with anyone. This came mostly as a result of his wife, who cooperated with various left-wing groups in New York to further women’s- and civil rights, and functioned as a bit of liaison for the President to parts of the Communist movement. Following his wife’s death, Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to avenge her, and closer cooperation with the Communists was one of the ways to do it. Subsequently the Democrats and Communists set up a committee to both investigate the coup attempt, as well as explore Eleanor Roosevelt’s wish of the ‘Second Bill of Right’ or the ‘Eleanor Roosevelt Acts’.

Throughout 1935 and 1936 the Democratic-Communist controlled congress passed numerous left-wing measures, nationalizing vast swaths of the American economy, or recognizing the occupation by workers’ councils of numerous workplaces across the nation. Furthermore, equal rights were granted to women, African-Americans, and other minority groups. Roosevelt and Lovestone easily defeated 1932 VP-nominee Gifford Pinchot, one of the most prominent Republicans to immediately come out against the coup attempt, while the more conservative National Union was ultimately barred from running, due to its members sympathetic statements about the 1934 coup attempt.

Ultimately, by the late 1930s the USA was not yet a Marxist state in the vain of Lenin’s USSR, but it was arguably it’s closest ally both culturally and economically, though perhaps more importantly on the geopolitical arena as well, as the Germans under Erhardt were rebuilding their war capabilities, while the British King Edward VIII was monopolizing power in his ‘King’s Party’s’, and rallying increasingly against Roosevelt’s America.
 
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