OHC
deep green blue collar rainbow
- Location
- Little Beirut
- Pronouns
- they/she
2021-2025: Joe Biden (Democratic)
2020 (with Kamala Harris) def. Donald Trump (Republican)
2025-2033: John Fetterman (Democratic)
2024 (with Jaime Harrison) def. Ron DeSantis (Republican)
2028 (with Jaime Harrison) def. Daniel Cameron (Republican), Joel Salatin (Libertarian)
2033-2037: Ricky Harrington (Libertarian)
2032 (with Marshall Burt) def. Jaime Harrison (Democratic), Ken Paxton (Republican)
2037-0000: Marquita Bradshaw (Democratic)
2036 (with Bob Ferguson) def. Peter Meijer (Republican), Ricky Harrington (Libertarian)
The great disappointment of the Biden administration takes its toll on the Dems. Biden compares his favorability ratings and his medical charts and decides not to run again, but with very little to show for the last four years there's not much for Harris to campaign on, and the expected primary coronation becomes anything but. When Senator Fetterman wins, the #KHive tries to gin up a write-in campaign, but America is not Twitter and the Dems fall in line. ("Bitter Harris supporters voting for DeSantis because he has a woman on the ticket" is a far overblown phenomenon, although there's definite movement back to the GOP in the suburbs, slightly reversing some of the electoral trends of the Obama and Trump years.)
The country is now led by people who want to Actually Do Something, and voting rights legislation, climate change mitigation, and paid family leave cross the President's desk - either via legislation or executive orders, depending on whether or not the Dems control Congress. Blue Dog intransigence leaves full M4A off the table but Medicaid expansion continues to get more and more Americans covered by government health insurance. Meanwhile, the Republicans careen between the culture-war faux-populism of Cruz and Hawley and the traditional conservatism of the governors who just want to get ahead with the business of crushing working people. It's a remarkably segregated political landscape, with both parties focused more on internal conflict than campaigning against each other.
After Cameron's loss in 2028, which is attributed to the cranks and racists going third party, the faux-populists seize control of the GOP and nominate the biggest troll and lib-triggerer on their bench. Paxton's criminal convictions are a plus for those in the base who see him as a martyr; they're less convincing to the general electorate, and the Republican ticket is soon polling poorer than any in decades. Vice-presidential nominee Cawthorn's claims that the GOP has finally become "the party of the multiracial working class" is less than convincing now that Fetterman and Harrison have revived the Democrats somewhat among their traditional voting blocs, and becomes a bad joke when Paxton visibly struggles to avoid hard-r racism against his opponent. Or, rather, opponents.
The Libertarians made some very small electoral gains during the 2020s with both real parties focused on their internal issues; most prominently, Extremely Online pastor Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., actually won statewide office in Arkansas on his third try and became a bit of a national figure of fun, appealing to both Republicans and Democrats with his isolationist stances and his videos explaining (and mocking) Senate procedure. His long-expected Presidential run began gathering steam among both conservatives embarrassed by Paxton (who was now repeatedly confusing the other two candidates) and some on the vaguely-left who were worried that Harrison's past as a corporate lobbyist represented a regression to the Do Nothing Democrat era.
It was an ironic twist of fate that members of Congress - who hated Harrington's gadfly antics with a passion - were the ones who put him in office after a deadlock in the Electoral College. After the past four years of idealistic but amateurish governance, most of them have vocally regretted their decision. Not least among these are the Republicans, who accidentally completed Fetterman's goal of breaking their monolithic rural base and are making a bid to be the party of the suburbs once again...
(Not the most realistic story, I just felt like trying a "kinda fun, kinda positive" future)
2020 (with Kamala Harris) def. Donald Trump (Republican)
2025-2033: John Fetterman (Democratic)
2024 (with Jaime Harrison) def. Ron DeSantis (Republican)
2028 (with Jaime Harrison) def. Daniel Cameron (Republican), Joel Salatin (Libertarian)
2033-2037: Ricky Harrington (Libertarian)
2032 (with Marshall Burt) def. Jaime Harrison (Democratic), Ken Paxton (Republican)
2037-0000: Marquita Bradshaw (Democratic)
2036 (with Bob Ferguson) def. Peter Meijer (Republican), Ricky Harrington (Libertarian)
The great disappointment of the Biden administration takes its toll on the Dems. Biden compares his favorability ratings and his medical charts and decides not to run again, but with very little to show for the last four years there's not much for Harris to campaign on, and the expected primary coronation becomes anything but. When Senator Fetterman wins, the #KHive tries to gin up a write-in campaign, but America is not Twitter and the Dems fall in line. ("Bitter Harris supporters voting for DeSantis because he has a woman on the ticket" is a far overblown phenomenon, although there's definite movement back to the GOP in the suburbs, slightly reversing some of the electoral trends of the Obama and Trump years.)
The country is now led by people who want to Actually Do Something, and voting rights legislation, climate change mitigation, and paid family leave cross the President's desk - either via legislation or executive orders, depending on whether or not the Dems control Congress. Blue Dog intransigence leaves full M4A off the table but Medicaid expansion continues to get more and more Americans covered by government health insurance. Meanwhile, the Republicans careen between the culture-war faux-populism of Cruz and Hawley and the traditional conservatism of the governors who just want to get ahead with the business of crushing working people. It's a remarkably segregated political landscape, with both parties focused more on internal conflict than campaigning against each other.
After Cameron's loss in 2028, which is attributed to the cranks and racists going third party, the faux-populists seize control of the GOP and nominate the biggest troll and lib-triggerer on their bench. Paxton's criminal convictions are a plus for those in the base who see him as a martyr; they're less convincing to the general electorate, and the Republican ticket is soon polling poorer than any in decades. Vice-presidential nominee Cawthorn's claims that the GOP has finally become "the party of the multiracial working class" is less than convincing now that Fetterman and Harrison have revived the Democrats somewhat among their traditional voting blocs, and becomes a bad joke when Paxton visibly struggles to avoid hard-r racism against his opponent. Or, rather, opponents.
The Libertarians made some very small electoral gains during the 2020s with both real parties focused on their internal issues; most prominently, Extremely Online pastor Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., actually won statewide office in Arkansas on his third try and became a bit of a national figure of fun, appealing to both Republicans and Democrats with his isolationist stances and his videos explaining (and mocking) Senate procedure. His long-expected Presidential run began gathering steam among both conservatives embarrassed by Paxton (who was now repeatedly confusing the other two candidates) and some on the vaguely-left who were worried that Harrison's past as a corporate lobbyist represented a regression to the Do Nothing Democrat era.
It was an ironic twist of fate that members of Congress - who hated Harrington's gadfly antics with a passion - were the ones who put him in office after a deadlock in the Electoral College. After the past four years of idealistic but amateurish governance, most of them have vocally regretted their decision. Not least among these are the Republicans, who accidentally completed Fetterman's goal of breaking their monolithic rural base and are making a bid to be the party of the suburbs once again...
(Not the most realistic story, I just felt like trying a "kinda fun, kinda positive" future)