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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Meppo said:
Are there any other American Viceroys round the globe?
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Efforts to privatise the Conflict In Venezuela have fallen by the wayside, but recent approaches to the Prince Administration by Elon Musk has led to a reassessment of the Occupation of Charcas (renamed to explicitly reject 'Bolivarian Socialists').
 
Redoing an older list concept, one where Lenin never gets ferried back to Russia by Germany.

Minister-Chairmen of the Russian Republic
1917-1918: Alexander Kerensky (Socialist Revolutionary Party)
1918-1918: Lavr Kornilov (n/a)
1918-1919: Leon Trotsky (Bolshevist Mezhraiontsy)

Chairmen of the Russian Socialist Federation
1919-1920: Leon Trotsky (Bolshevik)
1920-1921: Adolph Joffe (Bolshevik)
1921-present: Disputed between Felix Dzerzhinsky (Bolshevik Military Committee)/Alexander Antonov (Green Army)

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Chairpeople of the German Council Republic
1919-1920: Karl Liebknecht (Revolutionary Spartakusgruppe)
1920-present: Jan Tyszka (Kommunistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft)
 
1980: The election that shocked the Nation

1980: John Anderson Independent Patrick Lucey

Def: Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican George Herbert Bush:

Def: James earl Carter Democratic Walter Fritz ,Mondale




1984: John Anderson independent Patrick Lucey


Def: Walter Frits Mondale Democratic Geraldine Ferraro

def: George Herbert Bush: Republican Paul Laxalt


In 1980 voters in America believed either President Carter would win his reelection bid or former governor Ronald Reagan would defeated him for the first time in history a independent candidate defeated both the major parties.

In Anderson's first term he balanced the budget and moved to open diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union. in 1984 he won in a close reelection.
 
The Tape Plays The Same Old Song, Just With a Different Melody...
1969-1973: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1968 (With Spiro Agnew) def: Hubert Humphrey / Edmund Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace / Ezra Taft Benson (American Independent)
1972 (With John Connolly) def: Hubert Humphrey / Henry Jackson (Democratic), George Wallace / Lestor Maddox (American Independent)
1973-1981: John Connolly (Republican)
1976 (With Melvin Laird) def: Henry Jackson / Brich Bayh (Democratic), Tom McCall / William Proxmire (Third Force)
1981-1989: Fred Harris (Democratic)
1980 (With George Miller) def: John Connolly / Melvin Laird (Republican), John Anderson / Jerry Brown (Third Force)
1984 (With George Miller) def: George Bush / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1989-: Gar Alperovitz (Democratic)
1988 (With Ron Dellums) def: Paul Laxalt / Alan Keyes (Republican), Dick Lamm / Frank Farsi (Independent)
1992 (With Ron Dellums) def: Lamar Alexander / Arlen Specter (Republican)

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1964-1972: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1964 (Majority) def: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1966 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1970 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1972-1974: James Callaghan (Labour)
1974-1977: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1974 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1977-1981: Keith Joseph (Conservative)
1978 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal)
1981-1989: Peter Shore (Labour)
1981 (Majority) def: Keith Joseph (Conservative), Geraint Howells replacing John Pardoe (Liberal)
1985 (Majority) def: Peter Walker (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Liberal)
1989-1993: Paul Channon (Conservative)
1989 (Coalition with Reform) def: Peter Shore (Labour), Will Rodgers (Liberal), David Owen (Reform)
1993-: Bryan Gould (Labour)
1993 (Majority) def: Paul Channon (Conservative), Janet Ray Michie (Liberal), Mike Thomas (Reform)


The force of the late 20th Century was not Monetarism as expected by the figures of the Chicago School but of what some would coin 'Commonwealthism' after one of it's key pushers, Gar Alperovitz, the face of Harris's Economic Democracy whether he liked it or not. Some would call it Economic Populism, with Harris and Shore having both proclaimed about being 'For The Many, Not The Few' and talking about 'Sharing The Wealth' but that's a very basic analysis of there prospective ideas. To properly analyse the projects you have to look at there successors, Gar Alperovitz and Bryan Gould.

Whilst different in temperament and style, both are firmly on the same page with the ideas of economics. Bryan Gould’s ideas of a Industrial Democracy mesh well with Commonwealthism of Gar Alperovitz and the Trade Union and Cooperative banking sector has extended the reach of economic power to different people.

Even the brief reappearance of Neoliberalism in Britain failed when the corruption and chaos of the Channon-Owen coalition who’s attempts to changing Market Socialism into a Social Market Economy went poorly as it rapidly collapsed into recession.

But maybe the ideas of Commonwealthism can be summed up best, not by there creator Mr Alperovitz but by his Anglo-Kiwi counterpart within his own treatise on the flaws on the Monetarism and Croslandism within the spheres of the Left and beyond and what Commonwealthism actually means, in his book, The Future of Socialism (Gould, 1989);

“These are the basic Socialist values and principles – individual liberty, equality, citizenship, the diffusion of power, the importance of collective and social action… these principles may not have the satisfying certainty of Marxist analysis, nor may they constitute quite the same stirring call to arms as one based on class warfare. But they are a proper expression of the Socialist opposition to injustice, repression and exploitation, and of the socialist concern for the wealth and value of each socialist concern for the welfare and value of each human being, for social justice and for social harmony” (Gould, B. 1989. 72-73).
 
Time Enough said:
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace:
1961-1969: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (With Lyndon B. Johnson) def: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1964 (With Lyndon B. Johnson) def: Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1969-1973: Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1968 (With Hubert Humphrey) def: Ronald Reagan (Republican), George Wallace (American Independent)
1973-1979: Tom McCall (Republican)
1972 (With Millicent Fenwick) def: Robert F.Kennedy (Democrat), George McGovern (Citizens)
1976 (With Millicent Fenwick) def: Henry M. Jackson (Democrat), Eugene McCarthy (Libertarian)
1979-1981: Millicent Fenwick (Republican)
1981-1989: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
1980 (With Gary Hart) def: Millicent Fenwick (Republican), Ronald Reagan (New America)
1984 (With Donald M Fraser) def: Paul Laxalt (Republican), Murry Bookchin (Green)
1989-1997: William Scranton III (Republican)
1988 (With William Weld) def: Donald M. Fraser (Democratic), Russell Means (Libertarian), Ralph Nader (Green)
1992 (With William Weld) def: Al Gore (Democratic), George Lucas (New Frontier), Tony Mazzocchi (People’s)
1997-2005: John Perry Barlow (New Frontier Alliance)
1996 (With Stephen Gaskin) def: William Weld (Republican), Al Checchi (Democrat), Karen Silkwood (People’s)
2001 (With Neal Stephenson) def: Michael Huffington (Democratic-Republicans), Pat Cardigan (New Agenda), Bernardine Dohrn (People’s)
2004 (Presidency Abolished, Replaced with U.S. Communications Coordinator)

"The original promise of the Californian ideology was that the computers would liberate us of all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes in control of our own destiny. Instead, today, we feel the opposite — that we are helpless components in a global system, a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or to change.” - Adam Curtis, 2011

America is having an interesting 21st Century, after the late part of the 20th Century was all about that "Spaceship Earth" rational technocracy idea preached by the Zen Guidance of Brown and Scranton. The Presidency has been replaced with the office of Communications Coordinator, anything that can be done with computer is done with one, the democracy of old has been replaced by an internet one in which people vote for there representatives through forums and blogs. Miles upon miles of fibre optic networks spread across the land of America. Everyone has power they say...

Of course that is a lie, America has become for all intensive purposes a consumer democracy and this won't be changing anytime soon. Oh well, at least humanity is merging closer and closer with there machines more and more...
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Old list I know, but still

 
A very dumb idea based on @Thande and @Japhy ideas of a 'Communist revolution, but the flag stays the same' essentially, but in the UK.

1910-1916: H.H. Asquith (Liberal)
1910 (Minority, with IPP c&s) def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative & Liberal Unionist), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), Arthur Henderson (Labour), William O'Brien (All-For-Ireland)
1910 (Minority, with IPP c&s) def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative & Liberal Unionist), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), George Nicoll Barnes (Labour), William O'Brien (All-For-Ireland)
1916-1920: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (Nonpartisan leading War Government with Liberals, Conservatives and National Democrats)
1920-1921: George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston (Conservative - National Coalition)
1920 (National Coalition majority with Liberals and National Democrats) def. Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Ramsay MacDonald (United Socialist Council - Labour, British Socialists, Silver Badge), Joseph Devlin (Irish Parliamentary)
1921-1921: George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston (Conservative-National Democrat minority coalition)
1921-1921: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (Nonpartisan / declared in absentia by the Vigilante Society)
1921-1922: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour-Liberal-British Socialist-Silver Badge coalition, with Irish Parliamentary confidence and supply)
1922-1924: Sidney Webb (Labour-Liberal-British Socialist-Silver Badge-Womens' coalition)
1924-1925: Sylvia Pankhurst (Labour-British Socialist-Silver Badge-'Left' Womens' coalition)
1925-1930: Sylvia Pankhurst (United Socialist)
1925 (Minority) def. David Lloyd George (Liberal), Edward Stanley (Comrades), Christabel Pankhurst (Womens')
1930-0000: Oswald Mosley (Liberal)
1930 (Minority) def. Sylvia Pankhurst (United Socialist),
 
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1968: Lyndon Baines Johnson(1) Democratic Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Def:Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican Gerald Ford

1972:Richard Milhouse Nixon Republican Charles Percy
Def; Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic Edmund Muskie
1976: def: Robert Francis Kennedy Democratic Wilbur Miles

1980:Walter Fritz Monale Democratic James earl Carter
Def: George Herbert Bush Republican Howard Baker

1. Lyndon Johnson does not step down after Eugene Mcarthy primaries him.
in his 2and full term the president resigns due to a stroke but not before ending the war in southeast Asia.

2.Nixon declined a run in 1968 in first term signs environmental protection act defeats Robert Kennedy in reelection.

3.Democrat wins first time in 8 years. Faces bad economy due to inflation.
 
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REALIGNMENT: A New Party System

(Falklands War Lost)

1979-82: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
- 1979 (majority) def: Jim Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)

1982-84: Willie Whitelaw (Conservative)

1984-89: Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic)
- 1984 (with Liberals) def: Willie Whitelaw (Conservative), Michael Foot (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)

1989-1996: Shirley Williams (Social Democratic)
- 1989 (with Liberals) def: Tony Benn (Labour), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
- 1993 (with Conservatives) def: Tony Benn (Labour), Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Alan Beith (Liberal)

1996-98: David Owen (Social Democratic)

1998-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
- 1998 (minority) def: David Owen (Social Democratic), Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Michael Meadowcroft (Liberal)
- 2000 (with Liberals) def: Ann Widdecombe (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal), Rosie Barnes (Social Democratic)

2004-09: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
- 2004 (with Social Democrats) def: John Prescott (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal), Tony Blair (Social Democratic)

2009-14: Charles Kennedy (Progressive)
- 2009 (with Labour & Greens) def: John McDonnell (Labour), Michael Portillo (Conservative), Caroline Lucas (Green)

2014-18: John McDonnell (Labour)
- 2014 (with Progressives & Greens) def: Charles Kennedy (Progressive), Ken Clarke (Conservative), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Caroline Lucas (Green)

2018-20: Nigel Farage (UK Independence)
- 2018 (with Conservatives) def: John McDonnell (Labour), Vince Cable (Progressive), Caroline Lucas (Green), Theresa May (Conservative), Maurice Glasman (Peoples')

2020-25: Norman Lamb (Progressive)
- 2020 (with Labour & Greens) def: Diane Abbott (Labour), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Michael Gove (Conservative), Sian Berry (Green), Maurice Glasman (Peoples')

2025-?: Laura Pidcock (Labour)
- 2025 (with Progressives & Greens) def: Norman Lamb (Progressive), Michael Gove (Conservative), Sian Berry (Green)
 
Lucon50 said:
REALIGNMENT: A New Party System

(Falklands War Lost)

1979-82: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
- 1979 (majority) def: Jim Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)

1982-84: Willie Whitelaw (Conservative)

1984-89: Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic)
- 1984 (with Liberals) def: Willie Whitelaw (Conservative), Michael Foot (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)

1989-1996: Shirley Williams (Social Democratic)
- 1989 (with Liberals) def: Tony Benn (Labour), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
- 1993 (with Conservatives) def: Tony Benn (Labour), Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Alan Beith (Liberal)

1996-98: David Owen (Social Democratic)

1998-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
- 1998 (minority) def: David Owen (Social Democratic), Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Michael Meadowcroft (Liberal)
- 2000 (with Liberals) def: Ann Widdecombe (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal), Rosie Barnes (Social Democratic)

2004-09: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
- 2004 (with Social Democrats) def: John Prescott (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal), Tony Blair (Social Democratic)

2009-14: Charles Kennedy (Progressive)
- 2009 (with Labour & Greens) def: John McDonnell (Labour), Michael Portillo (Conservative), Caroline Lucas (Green)

2014-18: John McDonnell (Labour)
- 2014 (with Progressives & Greens) def: Charles Kennedy (Progressive), Ken Clarke (Conservative), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Caroline Lucas (Green)

2018-20: Nigel Farage (UK Independence)
- 2018 (with Conservatives) def: John McDonnell (Labour), Vince Cable (Progressive), Caroline Lucas (Green), Theresa May (Conservative), Maurice Glasman (Peoples')

2020-25: Norman Lamb (Progressive)
- 2020 (with Labour & Greens) def: Diane Abbott (Labour), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Michael Gove (Conservative), Sian Berry (Green), Maurice Glasman (Peoples')

2025-?: Laura Pidcock (Labour)
- 2025 (with Progressives & Greens) def: Norman Lamb (Progressive), Michael Gove (Conservative), Sian Berry (Green)
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Nice. Is this still under FPTP? That could get messy
 
Lucon50 said:
1998-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
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Not to call you out because this is a fun list (always love a Soc Dem victory list etc.), but having done research myself on Labour and Prescott I just can’t see Prescott lasting more than a couple of years.

Labour is infamously rather kind to it’s leaders in office, but Prezza is just a ticking time bomb with his general demeanour, numerous affairs and that allegation of Sexual assault that hangs over all preceding with him.

Robin Cook is probably a better pick here.
 
1989 onwards was held under Single Transferable Vote (PR).

Regarding John Prescott, he benefits from splits in the Alliance to eventually get a full coalition govt with the Liberals in 2000. I agree that his single term would be chaotic, but his success is more a product of lackings in the other parties!
 
“You’re my favourite Deputy”: a list contemplating Deputy PMs and Party Leaders having the top job

1937-1940: Edward Wood, Viscount Halifax (Conservative)

1940-1950: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1940 (Wartime National Government, with Conservatives and Liberals) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)

1950-1956: Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1950 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Megan Lloyd George (Liberal)
1955 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour), Megan Lloyd George (Liberal)

1956-1959: R. A. Butler (Conservative)

1959-1960: Aneurin Bevan* (Labour)
1959 (Minority, with Liberal S&C) def. R. A. Butler (Conservative), Megan Lloyd George (Liberal)

1960-1965: George Brown (Labour)
1960 (Majority) def. R. A. Butler (Conservative), Megan Lloyd George (Liberal)

1965-1972: Reginald Maudling (Conservative)
1965 (Majority) def. George Brown (Labour), Donald Wade (Liberal)
1969 (Majority) def. Roy Jenkins (Labour), Donald Wade (Liberal)

1972-1974: William Whitelaw (Conservative)

1974-1979: Michael Foot (Labour)
1974 (Minority) def. William Whitelaw (Conservative), Donald Wade (Liberal)

1979-1989: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1979 (Majority) def. Michael Foot (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Shirley Williams (SDP)
1983 (Majority) def. Denis Healy (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Shirley Williams (SDP)
1988 (Majority) def. Roy Hattersely (Labour), Alan Bieth (Liberal), William Rodgers (SDP)

1989-1992: Geoffrey Howe (Conservative)
1992 (Minority) Magaret Beckett (Labour), Russell Johnston (LibDem)

1992-1997: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)

1997-2007: John Prescott (Labour)
1997 (Majority) def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Sir Alan Bieth (LibDem)
2002 (Majority) def. Peter Lilley (Conservative), Sir Alan Bieth (LibDem)

2007-2012: Harriet Harman (Labour)
2007 (Majority) def. Vincent Cable (LibDem), Michael Ancram (Conservtaive)

2012-2017: Nicholas Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
2012 (Coalition with Conservatives) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), George Osbourne (Conservative)

2017-20??: Tom Watson (Labour)
2017 (Minority) def. Nicholas Clegg (LibDem), George Osbourne (Conservative)
 
Alright so a while I tried to imagine a President George Rockwell world that began with a Goldwater victory. Now that I know more about the development of the domestic American fascist movement after World War II I want to take another shot at it.

1969 - 1972: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1968 (with Spiro Agnew): Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent)
1972 - 1977: Spiro Agnew (Republican)
1972 (with Ronald Reagan): Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1976 (with Ronald Reagan): Henry M. Jackson (Democratic), Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1977 - 1981: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1981 - 1989: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
1980 (with Lindy Boggs): Ronald Reagan (Republican), Ed Brooke (Independent)
1984 (with Lindy Boggs): Jesse Helms (Republican), Pete Ueberroth (Independent)
1989 - 1993: Alexander Haig (Republican)
1988 (with Clint Eastwood): Gary Hart (Democratic)
1993 - 1994: Frank Zappa (Independent)
1992 (with Paul Tsongas): Pat Buchanan (American), Alexander Haig (Republican), Neil Goldschmidt (Democratic)
1994 - 1995: Frank Zappa (United)
1995 - 1996: Paul Tsongas (United)
1996 - 1998: Colin Powell (United)
1996 (with David L. Boren): Pat Buchanan (American), Bill Clinton (Democratic), Dick Cheney (Republican)
1998 - 2001: Colin Powell (Independent)
2001 - 0000: David Duke (American)
2000 (with Ron Paul): Ted Turner (Democratic), George Pataki (Republican), Jesse Ventura (United)

George Lincoln Rockwell was wheeled up to the gallery resting behind the podium where in less than an hour David Duke was due to give his inaugural address. At 82 years old, Rockwell's body was frail but his mind still retained the faculties that brought him and his movement to national prominence. He thought back through the decades and reminded himself how quickly everything changed. Forty years ago he was addressing crowds of dozens and focused on doing anything he could draw outrage from civil rights activists and the mainstream press. Now he was seen by many as the kingmaker of the incoming President of the United States, a man who despite his age could throw his weight around in politics.

Rockwell thought back to Patler's bullet. That traitor had nearly killed him before he could take his movement off the ground. Before he stopped being the laughing stock of the American Right. Before Wallace was able to take advantage of the electoral chaos that came out of Johnson bugging Nixon's plane. Before Wallace could levy his 93 electors to become kingmaker, and potentially the power behind the Nixon administration before assassins got them both.

Rockwell thought back to Agnew and how malleable the corrupt fool was. The man had basically invented the modern culture war through his use of the bully pulpit. But Reagan made a better wartime leader anyway once that bribery stuff came out. Reagan's war in Panama was the gift that kept on giving. Nationalism and jingoism fed the bellies of a shrinking middle class and unlike during Vietnam the National Youth Association had the money and bodies ready to combat the liberals and hippies and protesters on college campuses. In the midst of a growing foreign policy nightmare, Reagan's team didn't care who they gave money too, whether they were Saddam Hussein fighting against revolutionary Iran or Don Black seeking to establish a forward base for far-right operations in the Western Hemisphere. Though the war would ultimately bring Reagan down, his replacement served as an even better vector to rile up potential supporters.

Jerry Brown's continuation of Reagan's laissez-faire economic policies strangled the Democratic Party's base of union laborers and the poor all while his strident social liberalism helped Rockwell's boys caricature him as an uncaring liberal technocrat who would readily put the interests of gays, blacks, women, and Jews over the interests of the 'average American.' Brown's time in office would lead to a Democratic Party that had sinking national popularity and whose rising stars were completely unable to defeat the old news that the Republicans offered. Americans could not look past the collapse of South Africa, the recent stock market crash, or Senator Hart's own personal indiscretions.

Haig was not Rockwell's first choice (and, in fact, he voted for Ron Paul's Libertarians in the general election) but he would do, despite his predilection towards social liberalism and trust of Hollywood movie stars. Haig's war on Saddam over the dust up with Kuwait in 1990 would lay the groundwork for his own death just a few years later and the modern 'War on Terror.' Haig's wartime leadership was praised but his peacetime leadership was bungled. The recession made him seem weak and out of touch and allowed Frank Zappa of all people to get over institutional disadvantages and glide into the White House.

But the 1992 election would be notable for other reasons, as well. Following David Duke's success in the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Pat Buchanan decided that the 1992 election would be the testing ground to a new purely rightward focused political party whose coffers were filled with cash from Caribbean casino money and the dwindling fortunes of ex-Apartheid figures. Buchanan's Party would find success as Haig fumbled and the Democrats collapsed following their nominee's admission to statutory rape.

Mid term victories throughout the 90s turned the new American Party into the second largest and soon the largest party in America's divided political ecosystem. Iraq's assassination of former President Haig in the opening months of Frank Zappa's presidency forced the hippie to take the country into war with Iraq. But there was a secret war brewing within the country. Right-wing extremists in the mountain west and rural south had established redoubts with money and guns from Don Black's regime in Dominica. Zappa's attempt to curb their influence amidst their outright rejection of government authority led to several flashpoints throughout the 90s which framed the federal government as oppressive and overreaching. Bo Gritz and Pat Robertson were able to propagate their ideas to tens of millions.

But Zappa would die to. He would be slain by Al-Qaeda in a bridge demolition in Manilla and his ailing successor hardly had time to appoint a successor - the nation's first black president - before keeling over from cancer. Colin Powell would invade Afghanistan and Sudan in short order. America could barely handle one foreign occupation let alone three. It should not have been much of a surprise that Powell's party would demolished in the 1998 midterms and that he would be forced out of any attempt at re-election.

But all of that was in the past now. The eight-year Louisiana Governor had taken the country by storm and when partnered with the new Governor of Texas made a formidable team that no one - not the socially liberal Democrats, not the centrist Republicans, and certainly not the poisoned United Party - could stop.

President-elect David Duke walked into view and the crowd roared. The crowd was made of people radicalized by Rockwell, or Willis Carto, or Louis Beam, or William Luther Pierce. At this point it didn't matter. What mattered was that the crowd wanted to see David Duke in the White House.

And a white house it would be.
 
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