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The Butler Did It: When Coups Go Wrong
1933-1934: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1934-1935: John N. Garner / vacant (Democratic)
1935-1937: John N. Garner / Smedley Butler (Democratic / Independent)
1937-1940: Smedley Butler / Norman Thomas (Independent / Socialist)
1936 def. John N. Garner / Millard Tydings (Democratic), Frederick Steiwer / Hamilton Fish III (Republican)
1940-1941: Norman Thomas (Socialist / vacant)
1941-1945: Wendell Willkie / William B. Bankhead (Democratic)
1940 def. Norman Thomas / Charles Lindbergh (Socialist / America First), Robert A. Taft / Styles Bridges (Republican)
Al Smith and Huey Long win the Democratic nomination, and the Presidency.
Al Smith is shot in December 1932 and dies.
Huey Long is shot in the summer of 1934 and is incapacitated. There may have been shenanigans by shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen.
Speaker of the House Garner becomes President. He is (allegedly) pressured by shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen to appoint Smedley Butler his VP.
In 1936, the best laid plans of mice and shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen go out the window. Butler uses his national platform to make an independent run at the Presidency. His victory is attained by managing to taint Garner with association with an alleged coup d'etat by shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen, and the Republicans have singularly failed to learn the lessons of 1932.
Butler dies in 1940 and America experiences it's first (and only?) Socialist President for a little under a year.
At the 1940 election, the Democrats break through against a divided pacifist/isolationist opposition, in the face of war in Europe and the threat of it's spread to the United States.
1933-1934: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1934-1935: John N. Garner / vacant (Democratic)
1935-1937: John N. Garner / Smedley Butler (Democratic / Independent)
1937-1940: Smedley Butler / Norman Thomas (Independent / Socialist)
1936 def. John N. Garner / Millard Tydings (Democratic), Frederick Steiwer / Hamilton Fish III (Republican)
1940-1941: Norman Thomas (Socialist / vacant)
1941-1945: Wendell Willkie / William B. Bankhead (Democratic)
1940 def. Norman Thomas / Charles Lindbergh (Socialist / America First), Robert A. Taft / Styles Bridges (Republican)
Al Smith and Huey Long win the Democratic nomination, and the Presidency.
Al Smith is shot in December 1932 and dies.
Huey Long is shot in the summer of 1934 and is incapacitated. There may have been shenanigans by shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen.
Speaker of the House Garner becomes President. He is (allegedly) pressured by shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen to appoint Smedley Butler his VP.
In 1936, the best laid plans of mice and shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen go out the window. Butler uses his national platform to make an independent run at the Presidency. His victory is attained by managing to taint Garner with association with an alleged coup d'etat by shadowy crypto-fascist businessmen, and the Republicans have singularly failed to learn the lessons of 1932.
Butler dies in 1940 and America experiences it's first (and only?) Socialist President for a little under a year.
At the 1940 election, the Democrats break through against a divided pacifist/isolationist opposition, in the face of war in Europe and the threat of it's spread to the United States.
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