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A Socialist or Communist U.S. government would venerate Abraham Lincoln for ending slavery, and would depict him as a proto-socialist based on left-sounding statements of his like the following: – Abraham Lincoln, First State of the Union Address, 3 December 1861 The Founding Fathers would be...

Eisenhower had an extramarital affair?

With a defense budget up to 10% of GDP, the U.S. military could probably afford the full run of many expensive weapons and vehicles that were either cancelled or had their orders cut due (at least partially) to costs. Such as: All 750 F-22 Raptor stealth air superiority fighters (instead of the...

Getting universal healthcare achieved under his presidency would be a big boost to Truman. Although he would probably need a bigger Democratic majority with more liberals to get it done. Maybe that could happen if the Democrats didn't lose as many seats in the 1946 midterm election and gained...

Rudy Giuliani doesn't end his Senate campaign in 2000 and becomes the Republican nominee, but loses to Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Al Gore wins the 2000 presidential election. 9/11 still happens and Giuliani still becomes a "hero" and is idolized as "America's Mayor." He uses that public...

Conspiracy culture would be minimized, but still very existent in American society. It's been around ever since colonial times, as pointed out in Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." A failed assassination of JFK would probably be seen in a similar light as the failed...

Gingrich was the House Minority Whip in 1992, so if he lost his congressional race he'd probably be replaced as the whip by his deputy Tom DeLay. Then-Minority Leader Bob Michel probably runs for reelection in 1994 without having to worry about Gingrich's presence. Thus, if Republicans win...

Senator Gerald Nye (R-ND) was one of the leading isolationists in Congress. He may not have been a likely presidential candidate, but if elected president, he would maintain neutrality with Nazi Germany and focus entirely on an "America First" (i.e. America Only) foreign policy, letting the...

Not just Democrats... there's also John Heinz, John Tower, Ted Stevens... although the latter two died after they left office (and in Stevens' case he was in his 80s). But John Heinz could have been a presidential candidate for the Republicans in 1996 or 2000 had he lived. Another Democrat...

On a similar note: Ariel Sharon. Before his stroke, he was planning to withdraw Israel from most of the West Bank.

Theodore Roosevelt was the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and almost certainly would have been elected. If he had not gotten sick on his Amazon expedition and/or was not shot in 1912, then his health would be much better. He was only 60 when he died, so him...

Rockefeller would need a conservative VP if he doesn't want to alienate the conservative wing of the GOP too much. Bob Dole would be a likely pick. I think public sympathy after Ford's death might be enough to help Rockefeller win the GOP nomination in 1976, but it would not be a cakewalk for...

The video game Homefront and its sequel Homefront: The Revolution. In Homefront, North Korea (or rather, a Korea peacefully reunited by the North) becomes a superpower and invades and occupies the United States. You can imagine the liberties taken with plausibility. Its "sequel" is actually...

There was a timeline on this site called Losing the Peace where this very scenario happens. Without spoiling too much, Morgenthau's presidency leads to lots of bad things happening, such as West Germany becoming a depopulated, backward, almost entirely agrarian state.

Have Theodore Roosevelt win the Republican nomination in 1912 and then win the election. If he sticks with the platform of his OTL Progressive Party campaign, he could push the Republican Party in a more economically interventionist direction. Plus, even though TR was no egalitarian on racial...

This is an old, short timeline about a Buchanan presidency that I think is fairly plausible. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/buchanan-96.87524/page-2#post-1794067 Realistically, I don't think a Pat Buchanan presidency would be as dystopian as Rumsfeldia or The Handmaid's Tale. He...

Buchanan was/is a Wehraboo. He should pay a visit to this website so we can destroy the myths and misconceptions he believes in. On that point, I wonder if Bob Dole, who fought against the Germans in World War II and was badly wounded by German machine gun fire and left partly disabled, would...

The thing I wonder the most about in "continued Cold War" scenarios is the fate of Germany. How long could Germany stay divided? The division was purely artificial and existed as long as the Soviet Union was willing to prop up East Germany. But East Germany would need to institute some economic...

Highly unlikely. If the POD is before the 1980s, it's possible that even Reagan's presidency could be butterflied away. Maybe Carter's presidency goes better (no Iran crisis), or maybe Bush wins the GOP nomination and then the election. I've noticed that many "continued Cold War" scenarios have...

The KC-10 was not meant to replace the KC-135 one-for-one. It was meant for strategic refueling: serving bombers, large transports, and reconnaissance aircraft on long-range missions; and tactical aircraft (e.g. fighters) on long ferry flights. The KC-135 was originally meant to support SAC's...