ronald reagan

Chapter 1: The Beginning of Something Greater After eight years of Reagan, the Democratic Party was ready. Not just for the end of Reagan's presidency, but for a chance for a truly transformative Presidency. The last Democrat to have a somewhat successful administration was LBJ, but for most...

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard Nixon. If there is ever a man who can claim the title of the one I am so endlessly fascinated by, it is Richard Nixon. The boy from Yorba Linda, the snappy...

This Abominable System Introduction I’ve debated doing this for quite some time. As a political science graduate student whose bachelor’s had an emphasis in International Relations, I love wide-spanning alternate histories (shoutout A House Divided by Patrick @prolemasses on Twitter and Jimmy...

Hello. I have been writing a story where Reagan is elected president in 1976, and Iran remains as a Western ally after becoming a constitutional monarchy (and this happen because either the Ayatollah Khomeini is killed or remains as a obscure figure preventing seize control of the Iranian...

Dutch comes early: A 1976 Ronald Reagan victory timeline By: West234 Ronald Wilson Reagan is possibly one of the most consequential presidents in modern American history. His presidency changed the entire nation and was felt across the globe. Today he is viewed with vast fluctuations of...

Riders On The Storm - A Romney Timeline For the sake of prefacing, I will state the following. Firstly, this is not a timeline where I will interject my own beliefs. I will not be attempting to whitewash Romney as some wholesome liberal who will usher in a better world, nor will I use it to...

Last One for the Gipper Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term An Alternate History Timeline by Vidal This timeline is loosely inspired by the first American political timeline I read on this site: 1988: Defending the Reagan Revolution and a New Democratic Hope. The POD is much the same...

the air around us vibrates, starting slowly, eventually getting fast and faster a crack in the meta verse opens up and bright blinding light flashes in its place THUNDER! those watching are too stunned to speak as laughter emits from the crack, louder and louder [for reference, it is akin to...

My views on the man aside, Reagan was a very popular president in his time, and I've seen it be said on this board that if there was no 22nd amendment, it's very possible that Reagan would've stayed in office for a very long time. So I wanted to posit the question: What would the 90s and early...

Hey guys! Writing a timeline to me always seemed extremely difficult, with myself needing quite a bit of knowledge about many things to make a truly realistic experience. But I've decided to take a crack at it, because why not? Before I get started, though: 1. I am absolutely taking...

With a POD no earlier than January 1st 1980, make Ronald Reagan a one term President.

September 11th, 1973 - Santiago de Chile General Augusto Pinochet, Army General of the Chilean Army leads a Military Coup against socialist elected president Salvador Allende, at 9 am, that day, two fighters model Hawker Hunter dropped bombs in the Palace of La Moneda, destroying it, there is...

as the title says I’m curious who you guys think in a world where Reagan doesn’t exist takes the conservative mantle in the 70s post-Goldwater

Obviously a successful democratic 1980s is a scenario that is interesting to me and a lot of people on the site. Realistically for it to happen the POD is a Republican whether it’s Ford or Reagan wins in 1976 and their term is a disaster where the economy is in the tank by election time ( for...

We Want Hubert! An alternate timeline by Allegheny Aspy Hubert Horatio Humphrey, an orator, leader, and politician, described by both friend or foe as one of the greatest politicians of the twentieth century. His politics were that of principle, and issues were of utmost importance. The man...

We all know how President Reagan resigned from office at the start of 1987 after it was announced that Congress would be launching an investigation into the Iran-Contra affair. After that, Vice President George H.W. Bush was sworn in as the new president, but his part in the affair completely...

JIMMY TWO! America in Carter's Second Term 2023 Best Cold War to Contemporary Timeline This is not about creating some liberal utopia. If it were, Jimmy Carter would not be my choice. The archetypal “liberal” president deregulated industries at the expense of unions, decided to dramatically...

Rawhide Down: On March 30th, 1981, less than 100 days into his Presidency, Ronald Wilson Reagan was struck down by an assassin’s bullet after addressing a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The assassin, John Hinckly Jr, shot the President in the chest, with the bullet striking his...

Ronald Wilson Reagan and James Byron Dean are two of the most influential Californians in American history, both staring in many hit films during the 1950s in particular. But they went down two very different paths. One would go on to die tragically in a car crash during the peak of their...

If I recall, many Democrats were pleading for Humphrey to run in 1976 due to the relatively weak field and the general distrust of Carter with his southern upbringing. While Humphrey did express interest in the idea of being a compromise candidate should the convention deadlock, Humphrey made...