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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

In which I try to do a more sane @Oppo list I guess...

Into the Redford Zone..:A Presidents List
1981: George Bush (Republican)†

1980 (With Donald Rumsfeld) def: Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1981-1989: Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1984 (With Bob Dole) def: Gary Hart (Democratic)
1989-1997: Robert Redford (Democratic)
1988 (With Geraldine Ferraro) def: Alexander Haig (Republican), Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (With Ron Brown) def: Mitch McConnell (Republican), Ross Perot (Reform)

1997-2001: Ron Brown (Democratic)
1996 (With Joe Biden) def: Dan Quayle (Republican), Ralph Nader (Reform-Green), Tony Mazzocchi (Labor)
2001-2009: John McCain (Republican)
2000 (With Alan Keyes) def: Ron Brown (Democratic), Jesse Ventura (Reform), Tony Mazzocchi (Eco-Labor)
2004 (With Joe Lieberman) def: Joe Biden (Democratic), Jesse Ventura (Reform), Howie Hawkins (Eco-Labor)

2009-2013: Jeb Bush (Republican)
2008 (With Joe Lieberman) def: Dick Gephardt (Democratic), Lincoln Chafee (Reform), Howie Hawkins (Eco-Labor)
2013-2021: David Byrne (Democratic)
2012 (With Connie Johnson) def: Jeb Bush (Republican), Lincoln Chafee (Reform)
2016 (With Connie Johnson) def: Rand Paul (Republican), Donald Trump (Reform), Angela Walker (Eco-Labor)



Election 2020: Connie Johnson/Russ Feingold (Democratic), Ted Cruz /Bill Weld (Republican), Tulsi Gabbard/Dario Hunter (Reform), Angela Walker/Cheri Honkala (Eco-Labor)

Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t meant to President. He was chosen by Bush as a way to balance his ticket, the old school Conservative with one from the emerging NeoConservative school of thought as way to appease the Friedman wing. It was assumed by many that Rumsfeld would stay Vice-President for a term before being replaced by someone more compatible with Bush’s beliefs (probably John Chafee or Bob Dole). Then Bush was assassinated by a mad man trying to please Jodie Foster and Rumsfeld becomes President. Rumsfeld rule is...ehh (imagine a aggressively NeoCon rule combined with Friedman Monetarism) but Rumsfeld is able to win when Hart is caught having an affair allowing for another four years or so. But in 1988 Rumsfeld has to step downs and Alexander Haig gets the nomination, meanwhile the Democrats are in chaos until Robert Redford, a man who is more interested in Liberal causes and Environmentalism who becomes the lead candidate after a successful write in campaign. Redford is able to use his charm and his appeal to both Democrat and Republican voters to win (helped by Ross Perot slashing the Republican party votes as well). Redford's mix of Liberal Policies and Environmentalism do well with Liberal voters and him being Robert Redford means he does well with many non-voters not interested in elections. The 1992 is a landslide for Redford and upon leaving office America seems like a better place for many. But as the Ron Brown presidency occurs things are different, seeing the rise in the Reform Party (now having gained a Green faction from the Green Liberals who joined the party to support Nader's bid) whilst the Labor Party does pretty well with emerging Social Democrat/Trade Union crowd who feel like Redford could have done more for the Trade Unions.

This builds up as some of the projects from the Redford years fail to bear fruit particularly the 'Internet Job Revolution' which just worsens the Bubble Crash of the late 90s. It's in a air of perceived incompetence for the Democrats and a raise in third parties that Ron Brown loses 2000 to John McCain. John McCain manages to win on an air of perceived Moderate Conservatism (which is why Alan Keyes is kicked out of the Vice Presidency for the 2004 Election and replaced by the hawkish Democrat Joe Lieberman) who manages to keep things going on, as the War of Terror occurs with McCain sending more troops in and taxes are cut. When Jeb Bush steps up to the plate it's guessed that he'll lose to Dick Gephardt but the use of Joe Lieberman as Vice President and a strong showing from Lincoln Chafee and Howie Hawkins leads to the Democrats losing by a slim margin...and then recession hits. Jeb Bush flails around not wanting to piss of either of the Republicans trying to solve the recession.

Yet again the Democrats are wondering who to nominate and yet again a grassroots campaign to gain a Liberal Environmentalist Celebrity to gain the nomination. David Byrne, singer, artist and filmmaker seemed like an odd choice but he would appeal to a generation of American voters who had grown up during the Redford years and wanted another one, his Pro-Green rhetoric would appeal to the Eco-Labor lot who would endorse him to be President (there was also an opinion that it's better to have a Pro-Environment Democrat in over another four years of the Republicans).

Byrne would win pretty decisively and his next 8 years would be aimed at Greenifying the nation (famously showcased in Byrne's cycle for America stunt), reestablishing aspects of the American Welfare (including Byrne Care), trying to help out rust belt America through a number of job incentives and also promoting the 'Green Industrial Revolution' towards the end of his tenure. In that time the American Left becomes more popular, as Byrne opens the door for more Socialist politicians to appear (emphasised by his vice president being a member of the DSA as well as a Democrat).

It's now the lead up to the 2020 election, the battle is mainly between Connie Johnson on the Left and Ted Cruz on the Right with Tulsi Gabbard launching a quixotic campaign as the Reform candidate and Representative Angela Walker trying yet again as the Eco-Labor candidate. Maybe the Democrats can go three for three or maybe the Republicans will triumphantly return...who knows.
 
"The Sun In The Meadow Is Summery Warm..."

For the American Right the years after Ronald Reagan's loss to Jimmy Carter were harsh ones. Though Carter would be repudiated by his own party and the Country four years later for certain segments of the Right the return of Gerald Ford who sought to control the state rather than starve it was still too much. In their rage for years to follow they would split the right an ensure more and more of the hated reforms they saw in the world taking place. "Negros" and "Women" and "Worse" began to appear in Presidential Tickets, Federal ordinances, new laws, economic and social changes kept going. The fact that they were too slow for many in the Democratic Party meant nothing. The fact that the Republicans were "Fiscally obsessed" meant nothing. Only the longshot hopes of a total victory kept them going as they, and those hardcore Conservatives who chose to stay away from the Populist Party kept looking for a hero. But in 1992 the Populist Party was "Hijacked" by people with different visions of America. And its greatest result would set the stage for its own doom.

But A year before Perot there was a spot of hope for these people. Even then many of them took years more to be willing to recognize it for what it was. The Thought Police after all were insidious. Even Patriots could fall under their sway. But as America changed. As America turned its back more and more on what it had been in their hearts the Governor of Louisiana became a rallying figure. And then in 1996 a greater hope as the REAL Americans took back the Republican Party. Surely the vote was rigged in the end to defeat Buchanan but the stage was set. And in 2000 they would get their chance. And when it came, what had to be divine will followed: Jeb Bush failed. Colin Powell failed to win the Democratic Nomination. Perot Stood Aside. Somehow in a fit of delirium, they won the Republican Nomination. The talking heads swore up and down it would be the greatest defeat for the Republican Party in its history. Herbert Hoover could be redeemed by it. And then the Democrats picked Turner and shattered. And the efforts to organize a National write-in campaign failed. And millions of white Americans talked to themselves behind closed doors, in private backyard parties, and in their beds at night. For some there was haggling. For others silent and bloody hopes. And for too few of them, there was the commitment, but for them, and millions of other Americans who did not have a place in the Governor's vision it would not be enough.

And so in January of 2001 the political establishment stood by, and the former Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the former President for the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and the violent, hate-mongering governor of Louisiana, David Duke became President. They told themselves he would fail. They told themselves impeachment would be inevitable. Delusion was more comfortable then hard truths: The country had failed and what would follow would be their own fault.

1974-1977: Gerald R. Ford, Jr. / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican)
1977-1981: James E. Carter / Walter F. Mondale (Democratic)

1976: Ronald W. Reagan / John B. Connally, Jr. (Republican)
1981-1985: Gerald R. Ford, Jr. / George H. W. Bush (Republican)
1980: Edward M. Kennedy / Marie C. M. “Lindy” Claiborne Boggs (Democratic)
1985-1993: John H. Glenn / Thomas J. Bradley (Democratic)
1984: George H. W. Bush / Pietro V. “Pete” Domenici (Republican), Jesse A. Helms, Jr. / James G. “Bo” Grits (Populist)
1988: Robert J. Dole / Kay A. Orr (Republican), Lawrence P. McDonald / Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (Populist)
1993-1995: Gary W. Hart / Barbara C. Jordan (Democratic)
1992: H. Ross Perot / Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (Independent / Populist), Pierre S. “Pete” Du Pont IV / C. Trent Lott (Republican)
1995-2001: Gary W. Hart / Nancy P. Pelosi (Democratic)
1996: Patrick J. Buchanan / Donald H. Rumsfeld (Republican), H. Ross Perot / John S. McCain III (Independent), Robert K. Dornan / Jack F. Kemp (Populist)
2001-200X: David E. Duke / Helen M. P. Chenoweth (Republican and Populist)
2000: Robert E. Turner III / Joseph R. Biden (Democratic), Dennis J. Kucinich / Cynthia A, McKinney (Reform)
I do wonder what would have happened if Reagan had failed to win, who the next standard bearer would be. It is remarkable the lack of charismatic alternatives at the time. Jack Kemp is too socially liberal. Jesse Helms is too Jesse Helms. Paul Laxalt is too bearing. Bob Dole is probably more in the Nixon wing. Reagan just came at the perfect time and he needed to come because movement conservatism was the big force that had yet to translate into much power within the GOP at least compared to the squishy moderates and the Nixonite statists. So if the conservative movement doesn't go full paleocon like depicted here, I wonder who runs. Maybe Buckley gets sick of incompetent politicians and runs himself for Pres?

Also, I haven't listened to Slow Burn (but plan to now) and I'm sure it addresses this, but do you think Duke actually could have been elected Governor? Would he have needed to do some small stuff like officially leave the Klan and disavow it or whatever? Okay that sounds ridiculous but I just wonder what would need to happen.
 
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New World Order

List of Presidents of the United States of America

1945-1950: Harry Truman (Democratic) [1]
1950-1953: Alben Barkley (Democratic)
1953: Robert Taft (Republican)
1953-1961: Richard Nixon (Republican) [2]
1961-1965: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic) [3]
1965-1973: Robert Weaver (Democratic) [4]
1973: Winthrop Rockefeller (Republican)
1973-1981: Howard Baker (Republican) [5]
1981-19xx: Jane Fonda (Democratic) [6]



[1] The humiliating rout of the United Nations forces in Korea was one of the most shocking events of the 20th century. With his presidency on the line, Truman gambled everything on a D-Day style landing in Busan. The failure would result in the first ever resignation of a Commander in Chief.

[2] In the wake of President Taft's death, the young Californian had enough political capital to bring about a radical shift in American foreign policy. He soon found a willing partner in Khrushchev, making a shocking trip to Moscow to visit Stalin's successor. Nixon's desire to reduce America's military commitments lined up with the Soviet leader's desire to reform his nation's economy and open the growing socialist bloc to world trade. While hawks on both sides decried the new arrangements, the unprecedented economic boom that followed managed to overcome the entire world and silence all reasonable criticism.

[3] While the Nixon years had led many to prosperity, not every American was satisfied with their assigned place in the new order. For many, the Stevenson Presidency would synthesize the legacies of the New Deal and the Nixon Peace with a new vision of social equity. The liberal ideologue responded sympathetically with a series of broad sweeping reforms to address the growing movements for racial justice and women's rights. His re-election was secured following a stunning military intervention preventing Israel's annexation of the Suez Canal. The man would not live to see the consequences of either his progressive social policies or his reopening of the Pandora's box of militarism, passing away less than a year into his second term.

[4] When the first African American President was sworn in, it attracted the attention of the world. Weaver, originally Stevenson's HUD Secretary, had been appointed Vice President following the death of the conservative southerner Kefauver. Now in office, he continued the Stevenson Doctrine at home and abroad. Unwilling to expand the military budget to pre-Nixon levels, Weaver continued with a series of UN-approved “humanitarian interventions” across the Global South while strengthening economic blockades against a growing list of “rogue states”. While nations like Enver Hoxha's Albania and Masanobu Tsuji's Japan had little in common ideologically, they along with many others participated in an unofficial bloc of nations who sought to overturn the Soviet-American order that they had been kept out of. Nothing symbolized this more than when an increasingly boring joint space flights between the two superpowers were upstaged by a desperate, shoestring budget Japanese moon landing. Although none of the astronauts survived the return trip, it was hailed as a triumph of the Third Bloc, and elicited suspicion from both the Soviets and Americans that the other was secretly collaborating with fascist powers.

[5] While Rockefeller continued the new tradition of Republicans dying in their first year in office, President Baker carried the torch of the New South into the Oval Office. In the aftermath of racial segregation, the industrializing South had become the vanguard of American economic growth. Even as that growth began to slow, a new generation of cosmopolitan Republicans had emerged from it, eager to protect the order that had suckled them so. While the Baker Presidency saw the codification of environmentalism and gay rights, the only thing that anybody would remember him for was Burma. While the reasoning of the invasion of the Third Bloc nation was flimsy, the occupation that followed was even more ramshackle. Throughout the decade a resistance movement of communists and nationalists would ebb and flow, leading to growing American casualties and increasing condemnations from the Socialist Bloc. A deterioration of trade relations paired with an oil production war with the Soviet Union brought the American economy to its knees by 1979.

[6] The California Senator had originally just campaigned on ending the Burma War, but by the time the first woman President entered office, her main focus was cleaning up the totality of Baker's mess. In her mind, improving relations with the Socialist Bloc was key to both the military and economic predicament America had been put in. By hitching itself once again to the Soviet engine, Jane Fonda's America sought to set itself back on track for another decade of the economic growth and prosperity that had thus far defined the post-WWII era.
 
having just started listening to that podcast i humbly submit the following

Kingfish For The 21st Century

1993-1995: Bill Clinton (Democratic)
1992 (with Al Gore) def. George Bush (Republican), Ross Perot (Independent)
1995-1997: Al Gore (Democratic)
1997-2001: Pat Buchanan (Republican)
1996 (with Bob Dole) def. Bob Casey (Democratic), Harry Lee (Reform)
2001-2007: Harry Lee (Democratic/Reform)
2000 (with John Kerry) def. Pat Buchanan (Republican), Ralph Nader (Green)
2004 (with John Kerry) def. Mike Huckabee (Republican), various (Committees of Correspondence)

2007-2009: John Kerry (Democratic)
2009-2012: Roy Moore (Republican)
2008 (with Rudy Giuliani) def. John Kerry (Democratic), Alan Keyes (Reform), various (Committees of Correspondence)
2012-2013: Rudy Giuliani (Republican)
2013-0000: Cynthia Lee Sheng (Reform)
2012 (with Bill Richardson) def. John McCain (Democratic), Rudy Giuliani (Republican), various (Committees of Correspondence)
2016 (with David Clarke) def. Bernie Sanders (Ecology, Democracy & Socialism), Bill Richardson (Democratic), Donald Trump (Republican)

2020 cancelled
 
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*I remembered Tom Steyer and wondered what happened if he created his own Reform but ‘Left Wing’ style party, things escalated from there*

Reform 2: Steyer Boogaloo
2017-2025: Ted Cruz (Republican)
2016 (With Carly Fiorina) def: Hilary Clinton (Democrat)
2021 (With Carly Fiorina) def: Cory Booker (Democrat), Ed Markey (Progress)

2025-2029: Tom Steyer (Progress)
2025 (With Carmen Yulín Cruz) def: Marco Rubio (Republican), Pete Buttigieg (Democrat)
2024 (With Rashida Tlaib) def: Joe Walsh (Republican), Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat)

2029-2035: Rashida Tlaib (Progress)
2028 (With Ben Cohen) def: Joe Walsh (Republican), Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat), Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (We The People)
2035-2039: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson (National Union)
2034 (With Tulsi Gabbard) def: Rashida Tlaib (Progress), Joe Walsh (We The People)
2039-: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Progress)
2039 (With Paige Kreisman) def: Dwayne Johnson (National Union), Tucker Carlson (We The People)
 
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Also, I haven't listened to Slow Burn (but plan to now) and I'm sure it addresses this, but do you think Duke actually could have been elected Governor? Would he have needed to do some small stuff like officially leave the Klan and disavow it or whatever? Okay that sounds ridiculous but I just wonder what would need to happen.
I think Duke did just about as well as anyone with his background and beliefs could've – and, frankly, had he officially left / disavowed the KKK, he a) wouldn't have been David Duke anymore (the man is a con artist who certainly believes in enriching himself, but I think also deeply believes in hatred and racism – at least he's genuine???) and b) he did kind of do that sort of stuff IOTL, and nobody bought it (Louisiana is smarter than you'd thin it'd be for a state that probably would still elect Edwin Edwards). I'd also suggest that Duke's apex was 1990, not 1991 – he might be a Senator if things shake out differently, but in general, Duke's ceiling was only so big.
Kingfish For The 21st Century
Harry Lee as Huey Long is silly and I know you know it's silly but I kind of love the idea of someone my mom watched on his silly Mardi Gras float every year becoming America's folksy dictator.
 
I think Duke did just about as well as anyone with his background and beliefs could've – and, frankly, had he officially left / disavowed the KKK, he a) wouldn't have been David Duke anymore (the man is a con artist who certainly believes in enriching himself, but I think also deeply believes in hatred and racism – at least he's genuine???) and b) he did kind of do that sort of stuff IOTL, and nobody bought it (Louisiana is smarter than you'd thin it'd be for a state that probably would still elect Edwin Edwards). I'd also suggest that Duke's apex was 1990, not 1991 – he might be a Senator if things shake out differently, but in general, Duke's ceiling was only so big.

Harry Lee as Huey Long is silly and I know you know it's silly but I kind of love the idea of someone my mom watched on his silly Mardi Gras float every year becoming America's folksy dictator.

I also like this idea of an American Fujimori family basically. There's other random Asian immigrant right wing figures in other countries that I'm sure would leave foreigners scratching their head if they won power like Osorio Chong in Mexico (imagine if he became president over AMLO and Trump's brain exploding from his neighboring head of state being Chinese AND Mexican) as well as Tomio Okamura in Czechia.
I mean he's a man who's personal heroes growing up were Joe McCarthy and Fransisco Franco.

It's just going to suck.
Oh for sure. I just don't see him winning the presidency much less the nomination in a Republican Party that went much the course as OTL. Maybe if Nixonianism became the course of the GOP since Buchanan worked for that admin and could spin that to a downballot career. He was both ideologically out of sync with much of the party as well as never achieving elected office before.

But no, it wouldn't be a very fun world to say the least
 
Aaron Burr, Sir

1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson (R-VA) / Aaron Burr (R-NY)
1800: John Adams (F-MA) / Charles C. Pinckney (F-SC) [1]
1804: Charles C. Pinckney (F-SC) / Rufus King (F-NY)

1809-1813: Charles C. Pinckney (JF-SC) / James Monroe (JR-VA) [2]
1808: Aaron Burr (R-NY) / James Monroe (R-VA), Charles C. Pinckney (F-SC) / Rufus King (F-NY)
1813-1821: Aaron Burr (R-NY) / Andrew Jackson (R-TN) [3]
1812: Charles C. Pinckney (F-SC) / James Ross (F-PA)
1816: Thomas Jefferson (JF-VA) / James Ross (F-PA) [4]

1821-1822: John Quincy Adams (R-MA) / James Wilkinson (R-LA) [5]
1820: James Monroe (JF-VA) / William Plumer (JF-NH)
1822-1825: John Quincy Adams (I-MA) / James Wilkinson (I-LA)
1825-1829: Theodosia Burr Alston (R-SC) / Henry Clay (R-KY) [7]

1824: John Quincy Adams (I-MA) / John C. Calhoun (I-SC) [6]
1829-: Theodosia Burr Alston (R-SC) / Andrew Jackson (R-TN)
1828: Daniel Webster (F-MA) / Robert Y. Hayne (F-SC)
1832: Alexander Hamilton (F-NY) / Roger B. Taney (F-MD)
1836: (postponed for duration of war) [8]


[1] The primary sources are annoyingly unclear on this, but the one elector that was supposed to vote for Jefferson / Someone Else - you know who you are - actually gets their shit together and the election goes off without a hitch. Aaron Burr remains an ostensibly loyal VP that does not feel pushed to kill Hamilton or commit light treason, and despite slight scumminess is the "obvious" successor in 1808 - Madison goes down narrowly in the Rep. caucus balloting because he is a Virginian and a dweeb, and Burr is off to the races. President Jefferson acts accordingly by deciding that this is the perfect time to kneecap him.

[2] "Oh no, what a shame" says President Jefferson after Virginia and the Carolinas all abruptly decide to vote for Monroe and not Burr - Pinckney may be Hamilton's pawn and a bit dull, but he's still A Decent Southern Gentleman as opposed to Burr, the American Catiline that Jefferson has been having a slow-motion anxiety attack about for the last eight years. Saving the republic is good and all, but Federalism With Jeffersonian Characteristics immediately turns into a shitshow because (a) the North is very much Not Happy with the fact that they've been shut out of the ticket entirely (b) Pinckney's galaxy brain idea to let Hamilton be Sec. of State now while Jefferson is Sec. of the Treasury means that the US is dirt poor and now at war with France. Why, exactly, is not clear, since the Louisiana purchase *still* happened, but after a year of naval shadow-boxing the American people have had enough. Burr Is Back.

[3] Burr is also tired of the Southern states fucking with him and does not bother to hide it. The Haitian-American Rapproachment (our oldest and most enduring alliance) is followed up by an island-hopping campaign that tears apart the Spanish Empire from California to Cartagena and is shaped most of all by military policy - set by the White House - to comply with independentist stances on "property rights" whenever asked. The South fumes (and southern soldiers were less than keen to comply) but Burr enjoys being simpatico with the new independence movements so that he can do lots of business with them, and isn't it a nice coincidence that he gets to wipe the moral stain of slavery from the Earth wherever it is found?

[4] Only something as galvanizing as the Liberation Of Cuba could get Jefferson to go back on all his principles and seek a third term, and his quixotic fusion run, backed by New England merchants and Southern slavers, comes very very close. But no cigar. You could argue that Burr's much beloved 12th Amendment was itself the deciding factor - women voters (of property) tend to be a lot more bothered by the Sally Hemings Affair for some reason.

[5] Adams is an unexpected successor, to say the least, but Burr made enough hay out of the 'third term' issue in 1816 that he is not keen to disgrace himself four years later, and Adams is one of the few people with widespread appeal to Federalists (indeed, he'd only left the party because Hamilton had essentially hounded him out) and sufficient firmness on "Caribbean policy" to please Burr. With the return of peace and prosperity, poor James Monroe - resented even by his own running mate - proves to be a fusion ticket too far. In the end only one Federalist elector even bothers to vote for him. But Adams and Wilkinson promptly betray core Democratic-Republican principles - namely the "do whatever Burr says" principle - and so they have to go.

[6] Some historians term this the Adamsian-Federalist (fusion) ticket and honestly do they even hear themselves?

[7] Theodosia had transformed the role of White House hostess into "the President's right hand" and is nominated for Vice President as a quaint token of Henry Clay's commitment to Burrite thought (and to counteract Clay's own reputation for skirt-chasing). But although Clay narrowly comes out ahead of Adams, one elector unaccountable fails to do their job and Clay and Alston get, well, the exact same number of votes. The Federalist majority in the lame-duck House concludes that they have an obvious way to embarass the administration and besides, how competent can a woman possibly be? They will live to regret this. Clay, meanwhile, spends a fairly miserable four years ranting about a "Corrupt Bargain" and about how Burr had tapped Adams to plant just this dynastic precedent in the voter's mind and with him backing Theodosia his rule over the party would never, ever, end and American democracy will be plunged into a thousand years of darkness, etc. etc.

[8] The year is 1836 and Aaron Burr is on his death bed. But he has lived to see so many things. Vice President Jackson, old friend of the family, trying to duel any man that has questioned Her Excellency's honor for the last eight years. The decrepit Hamilton and his pitiful insurgent government - the champions of "property" - pursued to their last redoubts after years of bloody war, American and Haitian soldiers closing in. Coronation plans.

The final triumph of the Burrs is - not dark. But beautiful and terrible as the dawn.
 
Slaver Hamilton is an extremely fun turnaround. Did the historical Burr really express an interest in woman's suffrage?

His feminism is often overstated but he pretty unambiguously believed in the potential of women. He openly praised feminist texts and ensured his daughter had a top class education which he loudly boasted meant she could prove the equal of any man intellectually.

The problem with the Founding Fathers is all of them were more radical than their governments were. Like most of the founding fathers were at least somewhat abolitionist, Jefferson, Hamilton and Burr all participated in the slave trade but they also all argued against it, Hamilton joined abolitionist clubs and Burr and Jefferson both passed state level abolitionist laws. But that never really translated to their national government. So I'd be reulctant to assume Burr's personal beliefs would become law.

Burr is I think enough of a complete loose canon lunatic that he's the most likely to just go fuck it and pass shit, mind.
 
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