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Cevolian - THE RISE, FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM
LIBERTY NOW HAS A PARTY
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THE RISE, FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM​

1945-1945: Franklin Roosevelt/Wendell Wilke (National Union -- Democratic/Republican)
1944: Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker (Republican)
1945-1948: Wendell Wilkie/none (Republican)
1948-1949: Wendell Wilkie/none (Liberal)
1949-1952: Robert Taft/Harold Stassen (Republican)
1948: Harry Truman/Cordell Hull (Democratic), Wendell Wilkie/Henry A. Wallace (Liberal)
1952-1953: Harold Stassen/none (Republican)
1953-1961: Harold Stassen/Richard Nixon (Republican)
1952: Adlai Stevenson/Harry F. Byrd (Democratic), Earl Warren/Paul Simon (Liberal)
1956: Stuart Symington/Robert F. Wagner (Liberal), Robert B. Meyner/Fielding L. Right (Democratic)
1961-1969: Nelson Rockefeller/Lyndon Johnson (Liberal)
1960: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr./Prescott S. Bush (Republican), Harry F. Byrd/Curtis LeMay (Democratic)
1964: Prescott S. Bush/James L. Buckley (Republican), Harry F. Byrd/George Lincoln Rockwell (Democratic)
1969-1973: Barry Goldwater/Strom Thurmond (Republican/Democratic)
1968: Robert Kennedy/George Romney (Liberal), George Wallace/Strom Thurmond (Democratic)
1973-19---: Gerald Ford/John F. Kennedy (Liberal)
1972: Barry Goldwater/Strom Thurmond ("Faith, Flag and Freedom" Alliance -- Republican/Democratic), Richard Nixon/Jim Rhodes (Independent "Republican")
1976: Ronald Reagan/George Wallace (National Conservative), Spiro Agnew/Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)

ITTL Roosevelt offers Wilkie the Vice Presidency, which he accepts, and he then goes on to form his own "Liberal Party" and serve one term. Although his party is relegated to third place, the Democrats slowly come under the control of the Dixiecrat wing after losing a lot of liberal support in the North and as Northern and affluent Conservatives drift to the now very right-wing Republican Party. A poor campaign by Cabot Lodge and the bankrolling of the Rockefeller family means that Nelson becomes POTUS narrowly in 1961 and cements the Liberals' place as a major national party as the Democrats slide increasingly into irrelevance and as the ultra right of the Republicans begins to bicker with the rest. After a hung college in 1968 puts Goldwater together with the Dixiecrats they conspire to put together a new force on the American right, which culminates with a "National Conservatie" Party breaking off in the mid 1970s as the old Parties back sink into history...
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