I have some vague recollection of reading someplace that Gray Davis was Reform Party-curious during the late Nineties, so in TTL I have him leading a faction of the Reform Party that adheres basically to California-style liberalism and never really takes off. Over time, it moves to the left and...
Presidents of the United States since 2000
The Second Constitutional Convention was convened in 1998 in President Perot’s second term. It concluded in 1999 having ratified a series of amendments that repealed birthright citizenship, mandated a balanced budget, banned flag-burning, created an...
Congress ratifies Hamilton's plan for a president (here named the Governor-President) who is elected for life and holds office until he resigns, dies, or is convicted of an impeachable offense.
List of Governor-Presidents:
1789 - 1799 : George Washington (Non-partisan)
1799 - 1819 : Thomas...
Other possible Francophone Southerners are Jim Hunt (Jacques Chasse?) from North Carolina for PM in the Eighties or Nineties, and Edward Douglass White (Edouard Blanc?) from Louisiana for PM around the turn of the last century.
While people are putting forward PM lists, I just wanted to post mine from a few weeks ago. It was designed in part as a template for this project, but it doesn't reflect the consensus that seems to be emerging that the left-wing party be a coalition as well as the right-wing one.
While the topic of the parties is ripe, I would humbly submit that if a libertarian party has seats at the federal level, it be called "the 76ers" (a la D66 and DS'70 in the Netherlands) as homage to its year of foundation (1976, since the American Libertarian Party came into being in the...
Have you already decided on a list of prime ministers up to this point? The updates have mentioned Hugh Scott and Al Gore as former PMs, but if you haven't planned them all out yet or are deliberately revealing them to us piecemeal, then that's no problem.
We associate Scalia with the conservative modern Republican Party, but his first "political" posts were in the Nixon and Ford administrations, when the Republican Party was ideologically closer to TTL's Republican Party than modern OTL's. So I'd say it's a no-brainer that he'd stick with TTL's...
The write-up doesn't say that it's the same, and the fact that the explanation of the POD begins with the 1935 court term could fairly be taken (as I took it) to suggest that the Supreme Court strikes down even more of the New Deal even more completely than in OTL. That's what prompts FDR to...
It's pretty clear that a lot of the New Deal has been struck down by the TTL Supreme Court, which doesn't seem cowed by the court-packing scheme as in OTL, and future presidents will be bound by precedent not to expand the power of the federal government. So it doesn't seem as though that's a...
Whatever Alf Landon said publicly about the New Deal, it (and Roosevelt) have been stopped in this TL.
My approval isn't entirely ideological, either; it's often taken for granted in AH that 1936 and the 1930s in general are owned by the Democrats, and seeing Landon grapple with a public that...