AHC: Kill off both the GOP and the Democratic party
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An Oklahoman
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The Reform party comes to power in the 1990s under Ross Perot. Eventually other third parties eat away at the Democratic Party and Republican Party (i.e. Greens and Libertarians). Thus the Democrats and GOP still exist but are radically reduced in power, potentially to the postition of being third parties themselves.
Sure, that would kill them off. But how would a nuclear war occur and why would they change their names?
Nuclear war is easy. It nearly happened multiple times during the Reagan presidency.
Also during the Truman presidency... the Eisenhower presidency... the Kennedy presidency... the Johnson presidency... the Nixon presidency...
But the easiest to change happened during the Reagan presidency. There's Able Archer, the Stanislav Petrov incident, among others. The Cuban Missile Crisis is also easy to alter. But as for the others, it's much harder to change.
As for changing their names, the Republican Party has already made the term "liberal" something people are ashamed of, to the point that liberals are forced to call themselves progressives. Perhaps the GOP can do the same to the term "Democratic Party".
As for the GOP, get Ted Bundy elected POTUS.
Hmm... Say Nixon wins in 1960, pushes through a civil rights bill. Southern Democrats might form their own party (States' Rights or Conservative, take your pick) in protest of civil rights and split from Northern Democrats. Liberal Republicans slowly develop issues with Western Republicans (who tended to be more conservative), leading to closer cooperation between Western Republicans and agrarian/farmer movements, forming a Grange Party. Northern Democrats are more socially liberal, and end up sliding further and further to the left until they're Social Democrats.
Would that work?
Would that work?
Rockefeller delegate (as previously mentioned), and worked for the Washington state GOP, so it's not hard to imagine him entering politics himself. Now of course, not everyone who ever worked/volunteered for a political party becomes a politician, let alone a successful one, but given his notoriety it's often worth overlooking.