Recent content by Emperor Julian

This is a good suggestion. I will check it out.

I gave up on telling this as a narrative several years ago, and in hindsight would have done a lot differently with the entire Ruins story. However, for the past few weeks I have been pondering a continuation/redo in some form or another. One problem is that I don't believe that telling the...

Well you got me here.

Maybe get Hearst to run independent? He has the money to self-fund and an ego that could maybe do it. Get some conservative Democrat nominated that he would decide to revolt against.

I wonder if it's possible to engineer a Democratic Party split somehow.

The Rise of Patton Historian Marsha Spielberg, PhD: "Patton appealed to a Protestant, Anglo-Saxon working class that felt that the Progressive Party was controlled by immigrants and minorities. A prejudiced charge, certainly. But not entirely untrue." Patton biographer Jim Ducane: "General...

Probably going to join in on nominating Patton.

The Wildcard The People's Coalition was not a formal party. They did not have any formal organization in most non-Southern states. Historian Marsha Spielberg, PhD: "I think initially Lyndon Johnson did not intend his coalition to have a Presidential candidate, and in fact for it to stay...

Unfortunately for Edward, he never happened to meet a thrice-divorced American potential wife, so he's busy drowning his hatred of his job in alcohol and sex (of whichever type) and being a really bad influence on his nephew. Of course, propaganda hides all this from the people, who just see a...

The thing is the committee that went after Pelley supporters, the Internal Security Committee, is now the center of the anti-British Second Silver Scare activities, so it would be weird to name it after that. I figured maybe Smithers could just make it up on his own.

That appears to be the name Smithers suggested in OTL.

The really minor candidates like the Socialist Labor Party or whatnot will probably come later. As for the People's Coalition... well, you'll see.

Would-Be Polarization In the beginning of 1948, it seemed that the election would be one that would feature both sides of the political spectrum engaged in deep divides, making a runoff almost certain. By the beginning of the summer, it looked like it was going to be the most polarized...

Building Frustration John Marshal Harlan's nomination was met with bitter resistance in the U.S. Senate, opposed by every left-leaning Senator. It became clear that the confirmation of Harlan was impossible. Law historian James R. Hill, J.D. PhD: "The refusal of Harlan to support the doctrine...