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estes kefauver serving like 1-2 years in 1961-62 and doing nothing but pass censorship laws to prevent "indecency" and invade cuba would be an extremely funny TL, especially when it leads to william momyer arresting political opponents by planting playboy magazines on them
 
gentleman biaggi said:
Hey You Guys Remember When Ronald Reagan Killed The Leader of Portugal?

In the United States, there has long been tensions between the American Left, ascendant since the election of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, and the Roman Catholic Church. While the two were originally allies, as Catholics were a major part of the "New Deal Coalition", after Roosevelt's death in 1945, the left wing of the Democratic Party was led by two people, President Henry Wallace and former First Lady Elanor Roosevelt. In the post-war world, both opposed the regimes of Portugal and Spain, which they saw as "reactionary theocracies”, along with the big city Catholic political machines they stood against as “reform Democrats”.

While these tensions were often kept just to the personal writings of Wallace and Roosevelt, they hit a breaking point in the latter point of the Wallace administration, when Wallace, fearing a conflict with the Soviet Union and wanting to promote world peace, hammered out a deal with Soviet premier Beria, uniting Germany in a trade for millions of dollars of American aid. The result was anger from many European states, who saw the deal as “appeasing” the Soviets, and who also feared a newly united German state, and it inevitably led to the formation of the Entente between France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgian South Africa, and Spain. The Entente’s presence in many African wars of independence angered the left even more, especially due to the formation of the “United Front”, a collection of former German and Italian soldiers to be used in colonial wars, allegedly backed by the Vatican and Spain.

As America had vanquished its biggest rival on the world stage, with the Soviet Union losing much of its neo-imperial status due to Beria's promotion of autonomy and dislike of conflict, creating a "fortress Soviet" policy, they soon entered an era of domination with its progressive left-wing government, which was resented by the Entente. Europeans saw the United States, and its allies, the Nordic League, China, and occasionally the Soviet Union as interfering in their "business" in Africa, in particular in Iberia, which saw two of the weaker empires in Europe terrified of losing power.

Under the administration of Ronald Reagan, the former Democratic governor of California and a Hollywood actor, America faced much mockery, as Europeans saw the actor-turned-left-wing demagogue as a symbol of America’s “cowboy diplomacy”. However, his term coincided with the fall of the Portuguese regime, as the Portuguese underground grew to an extreme extent after Antonio Salazar’s death, and the the United States grew to support leader Francisco Pereira de Moura. This hit a breaking point in 1971, when revolutionaries in Portugal, backed by American intelligence, stormed the capitol, killing the new leader of the nation, Antonio Spinola. The result was a full breakdown of US-Entente relations, creating a "Cold War" between the US and Europe, that would last for 30 years...


Presidents of the United States:
Henry Wallace (Democratic) 1945-1953
1948 def. (with William Wyatt) Robert Taft (Republican), Benjamin Laney (State's Rights)
William Wyatt (Democratic) 1953-1957
1952 def. (with Paul Denver) Thomas Dewey (Republican), Strom Thurmond (State's Rights)
Harold Stassen (Republican) 1957-1965
1956 def. (with James Mitchell) William Wyatt (Democratic), Strom Thurmond (State's Rights), Ezra T. Benson (John Birch)
1960 def. [second round] (with James Mitchell) Robert Nathan (Democratic)
Ronald Reagan (Democratic) 1965-1973
1964 def. [second round] (with Walter Reuther) Quentin Burdick (Pioneer)
1968 def. [second round] (with Walter Reuther) William Momyer (John Birch)
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i fucking love post-salazar portugal so much
 
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government invaded Kuwait; Gorbachev endorsed President Bush's condemnation of it.[370] This brought criticism from many in the Soviet state apparatus, who saw Hussein as a key ally in the Persian Gulf and feared for the safety of the 9,000 Soviet citizens in Iraq, although Gorbachev argued that the Iraqis were the clear aggressors in the situation.[371] In November the Soviets endorsed a UN Resolution permitting force to be used in expelling the Iraqi Army from Kuwait.
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incredible tl where the soviets overthrow gorbachev literally just to back saddam in the gulf war, spiraling the US and iran to ally against the USSR and iraq and pissing off a lot of americans

this war gets people so mad they almost give perot the election until he gets shot by some random drifter and then his running mate (who is bernardine healy for some reason) gets elected over bush and scandal-filled kerrey

anyway healy doesn't like being president and resigns in 1994 after republicans take power to give the administration to her VP, who is of course wally hickel

democrats claim a "corrupt bargin", win in 1996 with newly-elected governor of connecticut robert kennedy jr.

in the soviet union hardliners keep power, but struggle to maintain it, especially after yeltsin's death to alcohol poisoning. the soviet union falls in 1998, but because there's really no leader, the state becomes a constitutional monarchy with the united states airdropping paul ilyinsky in as monarch

qaddafi's maghreb arab union becomes a superstate, which makes france really mad, they then back a berber rebellion which they try to make a protectorate, this fails so hard it gives us a le pen-laguiller race in 2002, laguiller wins and is then overthrown within 3 years by the CIA

robert kennedy ends the war on drugs

gary franks replaces RFK, we get the democratic!teaparty nationally when he's elected in '04, tom golisano is dem!trump

Presidents of the United States:
Bernardine Healy/vacant (Independent) 1993-1993
Bernardine Healy/Walter Hickel (Independent) 1993-1995
Walter Hickel/vacant (Independent) 1995-1995
Walter Hickel/James Stockdale (Republican) 1995-1997
1992 def. [stand-in for Ross Perot] George H.W. Bush/James Baker (Republican), Bob Kerrey/John Kerry (Democratic)
Robert Kennedy Jr./Jill Docking (Democratic) 1997-2005
1996 def. Walter Hickel/James Stockdale (Republican), Pat Buchanan/Howard Phillips (Taxpayers)
2000 def. Melissa Hart/Frank Keating (Republican)
Gary Franks/Linda Lingle (Republican) 2005-2013
2004 def. Jill Docking/Gray Davis (Democratic)
2008 def. Rob Borsellino/Elizabeth Warren (Democratic)
Tom Golisano/Bill Richardson (Democratic) 2013-2017
2012 def. Linda Lingle/Bill Owens (Republican)
Vernon Robinson/Jim Lightfoot (Republican) 2017-????
2016 def. Tom Golisano/Bill Richardson (Democratic)

Leader of the Soviet Union:
Mikhail Gorbachev (CPSU) 1985-1990
Yevgeny Primakov (CPSU) 1990-1998
Soviet Union abolished, replaced by Monarchy led by Paul I

Presidents of France:
Édouard Balladur (RPR) 1995-2002
1995 def. Lionel Jospin (PS)
Arlette Laguiller (LO) 2002-2005
Michel Roquejeoffre (Military) 2005-2008
2002 def. Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN)
Michel Roquejeoffre (Union) 2008-????
2008 def. Stéphane Claireaux (Radical)
 
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incredible tl where the soviets overthrow gorbachev literally just to back saddam in the gulf war, spiraling the US and iran to ally against the USSR and iraq and pissing off a lot of americans

this war gets people so mad they almost give perot the election until he gets shot by some random drifter and then his running mate (who is bernardine healy for some reason) gets elected over bush and scandal-filled kerrey

anyway healy doesn't like being president and resigns in 1994 after republicans take power to give the administration to her VP, who is of course wally hickel

democrats claim a "corrupt bargin", win in 1996 with newly-elected governor of connecticut robert kennedy jr.

in the soviet union hardliners keep power, but struggle to maintain it, especially after yeltsin's death to alcohol poisoning. the soviet union falls in 1998, but because there's really no leader, the state becomes a constitutional monarchy with the united states airdropping paul ilyinsky in as monarch

qaddafi's maghreb arab union becomes a superstate, which makes france really mad, they then back a berber rebellion which they try to make a protectorate, this fails so hard it gives us a le pen-laguiller race in 2002, laguiller wins and is then overthrown within 3 years by the CIA

robert kennedy ends the war on drugs

gary franks replaces RFK, we get the democratic!teaparty nationally when he's elected in '04, tom golisano is dem!trump

Presidents of the United States:
Bernardine Healy/vacant (Independent) 1993-1993
Bernardine Healy/Walter Hickel (Independent) 1993-1995
Walter Hickel/vacant (Independent) 1995-1995
Walter Hickel/James Stockdale (Republican) 1995-1997
1992 def. [stand-in for Ross Perot] George H.W. Bush/James Baker (Republican), Bob Kerrey/John Kerry (Democratic)
Robert Kennedy Jr./Jill Docking (Democratic) 1997-2005
1996 def. Walter Hickel/James Stockdale (Republican), Pat Buchanan/Howard Phillips (Taxpayers)
2000 def. Melissa Hart/Frank Keating (Republican)
Gary Franks/Linda Lingle (Republican) 2005-2013
2004 def. Jill Docking/Gray Davis (Democratic)
2008 def. Rob Borsellino/Elizabeth Warren (Democratic)
Tom Golisano/Bill Richardson (Democratic) 2013-2017
2012 def. Linda Lingle/Bill Owens (Republican)
Vernon Robinson/Jim Lightfoot (Republican) 2017-????
2016 def. Tom Golisano/Bill Richardson (Democratic)

Leader of the Soviet Union:
Mikhail Gorbachev (CPSU) 1985-1990
Yevgeny Primakov (CPSU) 1990-1998
Soviet Union abolished, replaced by Monarchy led by Paul I

Presidents of France:
Édouard Balladur (RPR) 1995-2002
1995 def. Lionel Jospin (PS)
Arlette Laguiller (LO) 2002-2005
Michel Roquejeoffre (Military) 2005-2008
2002 def. Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN)
Michel Roquejeoffre (Union) 2008-????
2008 def. Stéphane Claireaux (Radical)
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STOP BEING SO GOOD AT THIS BIAGGI HOLY SHIT
 
gentleman biaggi said:
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To this day, Roy Cohn’s presidency confuses many. A Jewish homosexual New Yorker was the man who brought conservative machinery back into full force within the Republican Party. His downfall after years of seemingly poking at God came from the very thing he despised, as despite the president’s claims of liver cancer, later reports would confirm that he actually died of GRIDS, something so embarrassing that his vice president, Donald Stewart would be impeached and removed over his attempts at a cover-up. Cohn’s presidency was short, lasting only a year and three months before his eventual shocking death in 1986, but the events leading up to it have provided great interest in the American public.

Roy Cohn had a long career before the 1970s as a lawyer for various causes, most notably for Joseph McCarthy during the Red and Pink scares, but his official career in office began in 1970. In 1968 Cohn had, despite his conservative views, worked with Democratic candidate Robert Kennedy as a “fixer” against Ronald Reagan, whom Cohn deemed “dangerous”. Cohn’s fixing is often credited with giving the Conservative Party of New York’s nomination to George Wallace in an attempt to split the conservative vote in New York. In Kennedy’s first year in office Cohn remained a “hatchet man”, healing relationships with Kennedy and various conservative political machines and organized crime affiliates (peaking in Jimmy Hoffa’s pardon in 1969). Many within deeper sections of the American conspiracy theory community also credit Cohn with the “exile” of Daniel Ellsberg, who, after a devastating break-in that left him paralyzed, moved to Quebec and stated he had possession of documents saying the state department had lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and others during the Vietnam War. However, Ellsberg is often dismissed as a “kook” by most in modern America.

While Cohn enjoyed being a member of the Kennedy administration - with many later writing that his support for the Kennedys was because of both Robert Kennedy’s “code of honor” and because he liked feeling connected to the “American Royal Family”, Cohn would leave the White House in early 1970 to run for Robert Kennedy’s former senate seat, at the time being held by Ogden Reid. Cohn’s campaign, while originally dismissed as a “stalking horse” for a possible independent Conservative Party campaign, was actually very successful, utilizing old ethnic white machine politics and vote splitting among his liberal opponents to win the nomination. The result of Cohn’s nomination was one of the strangest elections of 1970, where the Democratic/Conservative candidate battled a Republican/Liberal (party) candidate. However, Cohn’s conservative past, so offensive to many in the “New Left”, caused Benjamin Spock, a Olympian-turned doctor-turned anti-Vietnam War activist, to jump in the race as a member of the “Citizens Party”. However, Cohn’s connections to political machinery, his immense popularity among “ethnic white”, Jewish, and suburban voters, and consistent denial that he was a homosexual against split opposition won him the race.

In the senate, Cohn was originally expected to be a powerful force for conservative Democrats, as his victory (along with Sam Yorty’s thumping of Tom Bradley in 1969) gave many hope that the conservative wing of the Democratic party could maintain power during the second Kennedy administration. However, Cohn was less powerful than expected in the senate, as many senators still saw him as Joe McCarthy’s fairy lawyer who was willing to sell his soul for a piece of power. Not only that, but Cohn was largely not as conservative as many expected. While he did support some conservative values, largely on the social end, he was willing to back much of the Kennedy doctrine, in particular the expansion of the intelligence state after J. Edgar Hoover’s death, gun control, and increased power for labor unions. Still, Cohn felt disrespected in the senate, and after only four years, decided to leave to run for governor, a campaign that would once again show a conservative Democrat run against a liberal Republican in the form of governor Malcolm Wilson. Once again, Cohn would win, and appointed representative Mario Biaggi as his successor.

Cohn’s time as governor of New York saw the man return more into his political “element”, as he was able to control much more than he did as a faceless member of the senate. Cohn would establish a political machine built on the backs of labor unions, Italian-American organized crime, and old political machinery to dominate the state. Not only that, but Cohn’s allegiance with FBI director Mark Felt, a man willing to go to lengths similar to his predecessor, allowed him to destroy political opponents with unprecedented accuracy. Cohn would also see mass conflict with various left-wing groups, in particular the Puerto Rican-based FLAN and Black Panthers, often ending in riots. Cohn would raise his national profile through these conflicts, declaring a “war on terror”, and secretly aligning with the newly-founded Jewish Defense League and Crusade for Decency to fight back against radical leftist terror. While this would cause him to be controversial, his reversing of the economic downturn in New York city made him nationally popular, and as the national economy took a hit in the final years of the Tiemann administration, many conservative Democrats held him up as a man representing major change in America.

Cohn’s nomination for president hinges on his support from the “paleoliberal” intellectual wing of the Democratic party, which would add to his war chest. Cohn’s economically liberal (in the American sense) policies mixed with social conservatism and hawkish sensibilities made him a perfect fit, and support from a dying Henry M. Jackson, the former leader of the movement, allowed him to be crowned the next big thing. However, while Cohn wielded extensive amounts of power, he struggled in the primary system due to a lack of truly dynamic campaigning. While most Democratic nominations were won at the convention, machine leaders still wanted proof that a candidate could actually win an election by themselves. It was with this that Cohn, fearing a loss to more dynamic liberal opponents like Oklahoma senator Fred Harris and “Sojourner Democrat” Glenn Stassen, and with a large financial war chest began to simply bully other candidates. While Cohn did suffer a few losses, most notably in West Virginia, as the appalachian baptist Stassen played much better to the native Ulster Scot population than a New York Jew (even if he had quelled rumors of his homosexuality by marrying [insert beautiful white Episcopalian woman here]), he generally dominated the primary system, and entered the convention a heavy front-runner.

At the 1984 Democratic National Convention, two groups opposed Cohn. The first was obviously the progressive wing of the Democratic party, who saw Cohn as a conservative warring against progressive ideals. The other was the Southern wing of the party, who, very similar to the Southern wing in 1960, feared that Cohn’s Jewishness would cost him the south. After a failed attempt to get Ted Kennedy on the ballot, it was clear that due to Cohn’s immense strength in the midwest and New York, he would likely win the nomination, but he still felt the need to win over both groups. With this, he chose senator Donald Stewart, the senator from Alabama and a noted liberal. Although Stewart helped deliver Cohn some southern votes, he was not able to prevent a liberal walk-out, and a hasty ticket of Ralph Nader/Mike Gravel was formed.

During the campaign, it was disclosed to Cohn, who had been suffering from an unknown health aliment, that he had GRIDS. Cohn largely kept the diagnosis to himself, with many later acknowledging that even those in his closest inner circle, such as Barry Farber and Rodger Stone, didn’t even know about Cohn’s diagnosis. While Cohn would show physical signs of the disease, losing lots of weight as the stress of campaigning wore down on him and his body, he largely managed to cover it up, and continued to campaign. Ironically, as Cohn’s condition worsened, his poll numbers went up, as Cohn maintained popularity while the Republicans and Nader faltered. On election day, Cohn took advantage of the struggling economy and defeated Republican vice president Al Quie, winning in all regions of the nation.

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1984 Presidential Election Results:
Roy Cohn/Donald Stewart (Democratic) - 272 EVs, 41.2% PV
Al Quie/Thomas Moorer (Republican) - 260 EVs, 37.5% PV
Ralph Nader/Mike Gravel (Independent) - 6 EVs, 15.8% PV
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While Cohn's presidential campaign was a near-disaster, his short presidency was even more so. While Cohn was more open about his disease after the campaign, his hunger for power caused him to utilize a "strong presidency" model, actively leaving vice president Stewart out of key meetings even as he was approaching death. Not only that, but Cohn was increasingly paranoid, and feuded with liberal Democrats in congress, in particular Mark Hatfield[1] and Fred Harris, and utilized the FBI and Mark Felt to spy on his political opponents. Cohn would also become famous for his bombings of Libya, as he feared a "third world alliance" between Libya and China, and planned on "snuffing it out". Cohn's secrecy and attempts to start war would never truly come back to bite him, but instead hurt his vice president, who was left tasked with a war in Libya and Cohn's death, which he still didn't understand. The result was chaos on capitol hill.


Presidents of the United States:
Robert F. Kennedy/Terry Sanford (Democratic) 1969-1977
1968 def. Ronald Reagan/George Romney (Republican), George Wallace/Marvin Griffin (American Independent)
1972 def. George Murphy/Warren Knowles (Republican), John Rarick/various (American Independent)
Norbert Tiemann/Al Quie (Republican) 1977-1985
1976 def. George McGovern/William Dorn (Democratic)
1980 def. Kathleen Alioto/Donald Fraser (Democratic)
Roy Cohn[2]/Donald Stewart (Democratic) 1985-1986
Donald Stewart/vacant (Democratic) 1986-1986
Donald Stewart[3]/Warren McGraw (Democratic) 1986-1990
Warren McGraw/vacant (Democratic) 1990-1991
Warren McGraw/Donald Fraser (Democratic) 1991-1993
1984 def. Al Quie/Thomas Moorer (Republican), Ralph Nader/Mike Gravel (Independent)
1988 def. Bob Kasten/Herb Bateman (Republican), Ralph Nader/Fred Harris (New Alliance)
Bob Smith/William Hilliard (Republican) 1993-2001
1992 def. Warren McGraw/Donald Fraser (Democratic), Ron Dellums/Ron Daniels (New Alliance)
1996 def. Tom Harkin/Mario Biaggi Jr. (Democratic), Walt Brown/Carol Bellamy (New Alliance)


[1] Yes this is intentional, thank this group right here.
[2] Died of GRIDS
[3] Impeached and removed over attempted cover-up of predecessors disease
 
gentleman biaggi said:
Many within deeper sections of the American conspiracy theory community also credit Cohn with the “exile” of Daniel Ellsberg, who, after a devastating break-in that left him paralyzed, moved to Quebec and stated he had possession of documents saying the state department had lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and others during the Vietnam War. However, Ellsberg is often dismissed as a “kook” by most in modern America.
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hahahahaha shit
 
gentleman biaggi said:
To this day, Roy Cohn’s presidency confuses many. A Jewish homosexual New Yorker was the man who brought conservative machinery back into full force within the Republican Party. His downfall after years of seemingly poking at God came from the very thing he despised, as despite the president’s claims of liver cancer, later reports would confirm that he actually died of GRIDS, something so embarrassing that his vice president, Donald Stewart would be impeached and removed over his attempts at a cover-up. Cohn’s presidency was short, lasting only a year and three months before his eventual shocking death in 1986, but the events leading up to it have provided great interest in the American public.

Roy Cohn had a long career before the 1970s as a lawyer for various causes, most notably for Joseph McCarthy during the Red and Pink scares, but his official career in office began in 1970. In 1968 Cohn had, despite his conservative views, worked with Democratic candidate Robert Kennedy as a “fixer” against Ronald Reagan, whom Cohn deemed “dangerous”. Cohn’s fixing is often credited with giving the Conservative Party of New York’s nomination to George Wallace in an attempt to split the conservative vote in New York. In Kennedy’s first year in office Cohn remained a “hatchet man”, healing relationships with Kennedy and various conservative political machines and organized crime affiliates (peaking in Jimmy Hoffa’s pardon in 1969). Many within deeper sections of the American conspiracy theory community also credit Cohn with the “exile” of Daniel Ellsberg, who, after a devastating break-in that left him paralyzed, moved to Quebec and stated he had possession of documents saying the state department had lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and others during the Vietnam War. However, Ellsberg is often dismissed as a “kook” by most in modern America.

While Cohn enjoyed being a member of the Kennedy administration - with many later writing that his support for the Kennedys was because of both Robert Kennedy’s “code of honor” and because he liked feeling connected to the “American Royal Family”, Cohn would leave the White House in early 1970 to run for Robert Kennedy’s former senate seat, at the time being held by Ogden Reid. Cohn’s campaign, while originally dismissed as a “stalking horse” for a possible independent Conservative Party campaign, was actually very successful, utilizing old ethnic white machine politics and vote splitting among his liberal opponents to win the nomination. The result of Cohn’s nomination was one of the strangest elections of 1970, where the Democratic/Conservative candidate battled a Republican/Liberal (party) candidate. However, Cohn’s conservative past, so offensive to many in the “New Left”, caused Benjamin Spock, a Olympian-turned doctor-turned anti-Vietnam War activist, to jump in the race as a member of the “Citizens Party”. However, Cohn’s connections to political machinery, his immense popularity among “ethnic white”, Jewish, and suburban voters, and consistent denial that he was a homosexual against split opposition won him the race.

In the senate, Cohn was originally expected to be a powerful force for conservative Democrats, as his victory (along with Sam Yorty’s thumping of Tom Bradley in 1969) gave many hope that the conservative wing of the Democratic party could maintain power during the second Kennedy administration. However, Cohn was less powerful than expected in the senate, as many senators still saw him as Joe McCarthy’s fairy lawyer who was willing to sell his soul for a piece of power. Not only that, but Cohn was largely not as conservative as many expected. While he did support some conservative values, largely on the social end, he was willing to back much of the Kennedy doctrine, in particular the expansion of the intelligence state after J. Edgar Hoover’s death, gun control, and increased power for labor unions. Still, Cohn felt disrespected in the senate, and after only four years, decided to leave to run for governor, a campaign that would once again show a conservative Democrat run against a liberal Republican in the form of governor Malcolm Wilson. Once again, Cohn would win, and appointed representative Mario Biaggi as his successor.

Cohn’s time as governor of New York saw the man return more into his political “element”, as he was able to control much more than he did as a faceless member of the senate. Cohn would establish a political machine built on the backs of labor unions, Italian-American organized crime, and old political machinery to dominate the state. Not only that, but Cohn’s allegiance with FBI director Mark Felt, a man willing to go to lengths similar to his predecessor, allowed him to destroy political opponents with unprecedented accuracy. Cohn would also see mass conflict with various left-wing groups, in particular the Puerto Rican-based FLAN and Black Panthers, often ending in riots. Cohn would raise his national profile through these conflicts, declaring a “war on terror”, and secretly aligning with the newly-founded Jewish Defense League and Crusade for Decency to fight back against radical leftist terror. While this would cause him to be controversial, his reversing of the economic downturn in New York city made him nationally popular, and as the national economy took a hit in the final years of the Tiemann administration, many conservative Democrats held him up as a man representing major change in America.

Cohn’s nomination for president hinges on his support from the “paleoliberal” intellectual wing of the Democratic party, which would add to his war chest. Cohn’s economically liberal (in the American sense) policies mixed with social conservatism and hawkish sensibilities made him a perfect fit, and support from a dying Henry M. Jackson, the former leader of the movement, allowed him to be crowned the next big thing. However, while Cohn wielded extensive amounts of power, he struggled in the primary system due to a lack of truly dynamic campaigning. While most Democratic nominations were won at the convention, machine leaders still wanted proof that a candidate could actually win an election by themselves. It was with this that Cohn, fearing a loss to more dynamic liberal opponents like Oklahoma senator Fred Harris and “Sojourner Democrat” Glenn Stassen, and with a large financial war chest began to simply bully other candidates. While Cohn did suffer a few losses, most notably in West Virginia, as the appalachian baptist Stassen played much better to the native Ulster Scot population than a New York Jew (even if he had quelled rumors of his homosexuality by marrying [insert beautiful white Episcopalian woman here]), he generally dominated the primary system, and entered the convention a heavy front-runner.

At the 1984 Democratic National Convention, two groups opposed Cohn. The first was obviously the progressive wing of the Democratic party, who saw Cohn as a conservative warring against progressive ideals. The other was the Southern wing of the party, who, very similar to the Southern wing in 1960, feared that Cohn’s Jewishness would cost him the south. After a failed attempt to get Ted Kennedy on the ballot, it was clear that due to Cohn’s immense strength in the midwest and New York, he would likely win the nomination, but he still felt the need to win over both groups. With this, he chose senator Donald Stewart, the senator from Alabama and a noted liberal. Although Stewart helped deliver Cohn some southern votes, he was not able to prevent a liberal walk-out, and a hasty ticket of Ralph Nader/Mike Gravel was formed.

During the campaign, it was disclosed to Cohn, who had been suffering from an unknown health aliment, that he had GRIDS. Cohn largely kept the diagnosis to himself, with many later acknowledging that even those in his closest inner circle, such as Barry Farber and Rodger Stone, didn’t even know about Cohn’s diagnosis. While Cohn would show physical signs of the disease, losing lots of weight as the stress of campaigning wore down on him and his body, he largely managed to cover it up, and continued to campaign. Ironically, as Cohn’s condition worsened, his poll numbers went up, as Cohn maintained popularity while the Republicans and Nader faltered. On election day, Cohn took advantage of the struggling economy and defeated Republican vice president Al Quie, winning in all regions of the nation.

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1984 Presidential Election Results:
Roy Cohn/Donald Stewart (Democratic) - 272 EVs, 41.2% PV
Al Quie/Thomas Moorer (Republican) - 260 EVs, 37.5% PV
Ralph Nader/Mike Gravel (Independent) - 6 EVs, 15.8% PV
​

While Cohn's presidential campaign was a near-disaster, his short presidency was even more so. While Cohn was more open about his disease after the campaign, his hunger for power caused him to utilize a "strong presidency" model, actively leaving vice president Stewart out of key meetings even as he was approaching death. Not only that, but Cohn was increasingly paranoid, and feuded with liberal Democrats in congress, in particular Mark Hatfield[1] and Fred Harris, and utilized the FBI and Mark Felt to spy on his political opponents. Cohn would also become famous for his bombings of Libya, as he feared a "third world alliance" between Libya and China, and planned on "snuffing it out". Cohn's secrecy and attempts to start war would never truly come back to bite him, but instead hurt his vice president, who was left tasked with a war in Libya and Cohn's death, which he still didn't understand. The result was chaos on capitol hill.


Presidents of the United States:
Robert F. Kennedy/Terry Sanford (Democratic) 1969-1977
1968 def. Ronald Reagan/George Romney (Republican), George Wallace/Marvin Griffin (American Independent)
1972 def. George Murphy/Warren Knowles (Republican), John Rarick/various (American Independent)
Norbert Tiemann/Al Quie (Republican) 1977-1985
1976 def. George McGovern/William Dorn (Democratic)
1980 def. Kathleen Alioto/Donald Fraser (Democratic)
Roy Cohn[2]/Donald Stewart (Democratic) 1985-1986
Donald Stewart/vacant (Democratic) 1986-1986
Donald Stewart[3]/Warren McGraw (Democratic) 1986-1990
Warren McGraw/vacant (Democratic) 1990-1991
Warren McGraw/Donald Fraser (Democratic) 1991-1993
1984 def. Al Quie/Thomas Moorer (Republican), Ralph Nader/Mike Gravel (Independent)
1988 def. Bob Kasten/Herb Bateman (Republican), Ralph Nader/Fred Harris (New Alliance)
Bob Smith/William Hilliard (Republican) 1993-2001
1992 def. Warren McGraw/Donald Fraser (Democratic), Ron Dellums/Ron Daniels (New Alliance)
1996 def. Tom Harkin/Mario Biaggi Jr. (Democratic), Walt Brown/Carol Bellamy (New Alliance)


[1] Yes this is intentional, thank this group right here.
[2] Died of GRIDS
[3] Impeached and removed over attempted cover-up of predecessors disease
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God Roy Cohn's so based
 
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