I'd say Mark E. meant this in terms of his competence.
But hey, the challenge only said "make him win in 1980", not "hold Democrats in power for longer".
Many of today's Germans wouldn't live. Even if you don't go too extreme with the chaos theory, the WW2 jumbled the German population pretty much, and "Generalplan Ost" would do the same, just in a very different way.
Apparently they thought things were just like they had been in their youth and didn't bother to check whether they had changed. Yes, looking at statistics should have sufficed, but there you have people: Too many would rather commit suicide than admit that they might have been wrong. (Especially...
Last month I made this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/rebels-against-henry-iv-win-split-england.461493/
If this lasts, it'd help. The PoD would be around 1400, though.
I think this is way too late. Go one century back, before they took control of North America and India.
In my Chaos TL (which has a PoD in 1200, though), English is restricted to the British Isles, New Zealand, Canada (minus - wait for it - Ontario!), and the "Canadian Commonwealth" comprising...
I'm no expert... if the Vikings could make it to Greenland back and forth (until the Little Ice Age struck), what did they have what the Carthaginians didn't have? - If an antique people could make it, I guess it'd be them.