Is this supposed to say anti-socialist? Borah's first major career move was prosecuting striking miners in Idaho and trying to put Big Bill Haywood in prison. He otherwise was a socially conservative Republican progressive aligned with Teddy/Taft (and Roosevelt felt he was "entirely insincere"...
He was caught cheating at Harvard and expelled, his admission into the University of Virginia school of law was controversial (required a full faculty vote) because of his expulsion and poor grades, before Chappaquiddick he was charged with reckless driving and driving without a license, he was...
If Stephenson vs. State never happens the Klan would likely have become much more powerful, able to project influence on both political parties unless in-fighting tears the organization apart. The Madge Oberholtzer abduction/rape/murder publically destroyed the idea that the Klan was a "defender...
I don't think Mugabe's land reform program, which lasted over 25 years and went from "willing Seller, willing Buyer" to "compulsory acquisition, compulsory commercial investment into failing farms, state sponsored militia expulsion squads, etc." can be compared alongside the Asian Tiger...
The Khmer Rouge were (nominally, they were too crazy to be really constructively useful) part of the Chinese sphere of influence. Pol Pot described himself as a radical maoist and thought he was doing a better, purer cultural revolution. Vietnam, while communist, was in the Soviet sphere and...
Larouche was the kind of guy that believed in the most radical interpretation of those programs (i.e. the CIA is actively continuing those programs like MK Ultra and COINTELPRO into the modern day with omnipresent reach and power), but also wanted to co-opt and replicate them under his own aegis...
Both would be hated, and rightfully so. Kennedy and Khrushchev would both be seen as insane brinksmen whose actions led to tens of millions of deaths over saber-rattling. This would be a situation where ICBM placement (first in Turkey, then in Cuba) is treated as a casus beli for effectively...
It would be similar to making someone like L. Ron Hubbard president. Larouche was... esoteric in his beliefs, especially in his later years. Expect the Larouche state department to do something like declare a secret war against the Windsor menace.
A poorly-executed Long presidency could see a constitutional crisis over Long attempting to expand his political machine out of Louisiana, or a massive increase in corruption and decline in the civil service.
Pretty much every Right-Komi path is quite cursed, especially because Tabby is the one only guaranteed to collapse (that we know so far). The "best" option there is Shafarevich's "Compassionate Fascism" , still much worse than OTL Russia, then probably Serov's National Socialism, then Gumilyov's...
A SFIO government surviving to interact with (and hopefully moderate the authoritarian aspects of) the Soviet Union will lead to a very different interwar period. The problem is that I fully expect this victory to be made into a bitter chalice for France after the socialist government is blamed...
Excellent graphics! I love the micro-history approach as well, it works well with the setting and is an quite unique take on the Kaiserreich post-WW2 timeline.
I don't doubt his intention to liberate Moscow, I doubt his ability to carry it out through armed struggle. Negotiation is a maybe, but depends more on the German government (Go4 sure, Goering, Bormann, Speidel, hardliner/Dengist Speer less so) and the OFN's level of support/protection.