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The primary, no pun intended, issues that gave him traction this time around was Trade and Immigration. Both issues have been issues voters have been concerned with for some time, hence the regular lip service for them, and could very well have had a similar effect then as now. A lot of...

Trump seems a poor champion for a Religious Conservative like Pat, at least on Cultural issues. Taxes, trade, foreign policy and to a lesser extent immigration could be a better focus imo.

It would certainly be difficult. Still, Bush was "weak" in that he signed the Assault Rifle Ban AND reneged on his No New Taxes promise. And he did not seem to have much of a strategy or plan to deal with what came next after the Cold War. The most likely scenario of a strong challenge to...

The economy was the big issue at the time. The effects of imports and outsourcing were already being felt... If Buchanan is in the mix, I would expect to see Trump running on a disentanglement foreign policy, and certainly AGAINST Nato enlargement. Immigration and illegals would be a much...

As I recall, The Third World War, August 1985 dealt a lot with that. As it was written in 1978, it assumed the Shah of Iran as a strong western ally. A lot of the answer to your question depends on when WWIII is. If it is before the Soviet Chinese split, you could well see China with soviet...

THAT'S a good point. Remittances, and not just from West Germany could become a counter weight factor to the Brain Drain, and population loss. That would really put an odd spin on the old line "a capitalist would sell you the rope you use to hang him". AND might lend pressure to limit such...

I think you are projecting current knowledge of the end of the cold war onto the people of this tl. IMO, you would have a similar confrontation, but the level of spending being seen as needed/reasonable by the West would be lower. The Soviet Union knew what they needed to do to be more...

THe example of East Germany is an extreme one. I don't think that anyone is suggesting the 10% of eastern europe would leave in a few short years, but still very high levels of movement what with the bad economy and political repression. And considering the way Western Europe is so accepting of...

I'm still not seeing the need for second marshal plan. even with a Buchanan Presidency, Bin Laden would still be out there with his money and his hatred of the West. I would have to look into when the "wall" was put up between the CIA and FBI, with regards to whether there would be a real...

No, just don't expand it. Patrick Buchanan winning in 96 and preventing NATO expansion would be a good pod. Putin and the Russians are going to be a significantly less paranoid if Nato and Nato troops are two or three countries away from their borders. Isolationist Buchanan ignores Putin's...

I like 3 and to a lesser extent 7. #3 is good. Midway is good. The bit about drunken husbands being abusive to their wives was a big part of women supporting Prohibition... How about an enormous scandal with a high status leader accidentally killing his wife or child in a fit of drunken rage...

If immigration was restricted in the 20th and the growing industrial sector was forced to use black American workers instead of immigrant Europeans, and thus the situation of black people and communities were improved by better wages and taxes... That could have helped make "separate but equal"...

Strongly agree. Compare West and East Germany, compare North and South Korea, compare China to Taiwan... NOt a lot of data points, but all the examples suggest that a surviving South Vietnam would have made the world a significantly better place.

It might have had something to do with the fact that we were kind of busy occupying TWO nations.

Actually what he described was NOT "unfettered" as he only mentioned military and government targets. So, it's not "proportional". So who cares and what can they do about it? It's not an Actual INterenational Law, I take it?

It is well within the bounds of NOT asb to WI a Hitler who initially went for deportation for German and French and even Polish "undesirables". Hell, if he was slightly less drug addled and decided to divert all train transport to supporting the war effort, with full intentions of getting back...

You worry about men who find younger women attractive? You must worry a LOT.

A very amusing, but small possibility would be if she followed in Hillary's footstep and tried to build First Lady into a launch pad for her own Presidency. But, she has shown no political ambitions and the Bush Legacy was fairly negative with the war.

Soooooo, you've never met any male humans?;)

Mmm, she did work for GHWBush, who was very impressed with her. Meeting his son would be unlikely but not impossible. There is no reason for this to sideline GWBush's presidency, but it would add an interesting anti-racist angle to his election, that would impact Racial Issues in politics.