Blue Skies in Camelot: An Alternate 60's and Beyond

I am still wondering whether George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump become presidents ITTL?
Bush, probably not, given H.W.'s recession. I could see a Hillary presidency, though.

Obama, I'm not sure. Right now he's like 18 or 19 ITTL, and apparently trying to appeal to long legged socialists by reading Marx (assuming his memoirs are accurate to TTL too). Maybe he finds himself as a part of a democratic socialist democratic party? I doubt we would even hear from him until the TL hit the nineties, though.

Trump is definitely a possible candidate, but not for the Republicans. Considering that P_L was talking about reviving the ACU in retcons, I could see his nationalist, populist, and authoritarian approach aligning very well with the ACU. Not so much with the neoliberalism of the Republicans.

But also, butterflies cause hurricanes, and all that.
 
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Rivercat893

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Bush, probably not, given H.W.'s recession. I could see a Hillary presidency, though.

Obama, I'm not sure. Right now he's like 18 or 19 ITTL, and apparently trying to appeal to long legged socialists by reading Marx (assuming his memoirs are accurate to TTL too). Maybe he finds himself as a part of a democratic socialist democratic party? I doubt we would even hear from him until the TL hit the nineties, though.

Trump is definitely a possible candidate, but not for the Republicans. Considering that P_L was talking about reviving the ACU in retcons, I could see his nationalist, populist, and authoritarian approach aligning very well with the ACU. Not so much with the neoliberalism of the Republicans.

But also, butterflies cause hurricanes, and all that.
The American Conservative Party will more or less fill out the same role as OTL's Republicans with a dash of the Dixiecrats albeit without the segregationism. Of course, as pointed out by @President_Lincoln, the ACP endorsing Ronald Reagan especially if he wins the 1980 election will definitely bolster the party's chances for a serious White House run in the near future which would make them the first successful and long-term third party in the United States. They're basically the National Conservative Party from No Southern Strategy.
 
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Obama, I'm not sure. Right now he's like 18 or 19 ITTL, and apparently trying to appeal to long legged socialists by reading Marx (assuming his memoirs are accurate to TTL too). Maybe he finds himself as a part of a democratic socialist democratic party? I doubt we would even hear from him until the TL hit the nineties, though.

FIrst African-American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
 
I also wonder what would happen to Jackie Kennedy’s Pink Suit ITTL.
Used for a while longer (assuming any blood came out), then in the closet as fashions change. As she's probably still a fashion icon it might show up in an exhibition in the 80's-90's but as JFK wasn't killed it won't have the same iconic status as OTL.
 

Rivercat893

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Used for a while longer (assuming any blood came out), then in the closet as fashions change. As she's probably still a fashion icon it might show up in an exhibition in the 80's-90's but as JFK wasn't killed it won't have the same iconic status as OTL.
And then we go to 2016's Jackie, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, assuming if that movie even exists. The plot will be different in the BSiC universe since Kennedy was never assassinated. It would be more about Jackie's life before and after the White House, which is to say we will get flashbacks to her past before meeting her husband and so and so forth.
 
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And then we go to 2016's Jackie, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, assuming if that movie even exists. The plot will be different in the BSiC universe since Kennedy was never assassinated. It would be more about Jackie's life before and after the White House, which is to say we will get flashbacks to her past before meeting her husband and so and so forth.
I'd watch that
 
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