eugene debs

Welcome to Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit: A Collaborative TL. The idea for a new collaborative timeline came from @Whiteshore (thanks for a good idea how to bridge the time of social distancing due to COVID-19!), these rules have been modified from an OP by @Gabzcervo . The title is my own...

In 1912, there were four major candidates- Taft, Roosevelt, Wilson, and Eugene Debs of the socialist party. Now, otl, Debbs only won about 10% of the vote. But how would we be able to not only get the presidency but his party in control of at least one chamber of Congress, so that he could act...

Today, Debs is remembered for his role in the 1894 Pullman Strike and his activities as a Socialist politician during the Progressive era. But he was originally a Democrat and a capitalist who served one term in the Indiana General Assembly. It wasn't until reading Socialist literature after...

OTL, the Socialist Party of America, founded 1901, generally won about 3% of the popular vote in US presidential elections, with the exception of 1912 when they managed 6%; and while they endorsed the Progressive Party candidate Robert LaFollette in 1924, who got 16.6% of the vote in one of the...