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The 1912 election seems to me to be one of those major turning point elections on which things would have gone in a very different direction had Roosevelt one. For purposes of this thread, he can win as either a Bull Moose Progressive or he can defeat Taft for the nomination and win as a progressive Republican.

What I find interesting about this WI is that it would seem most of the changes would be positive ones.(depending on perspective of course)

- a more progressive Republican party if TR wins as a Republican, but a more progressive course for the country overall. Assuming Roosevelt could get legislation through, he had a pretty ambitiously progressive agenda. A sort of proto-New Deal.


-earlier intervention in WWI, possibly from the Lusitania sinking, means an earlier Allied victory, no Bolshevik Revolution, a totally different peace settlement, and a U.S. that stays interventionist to enforce the peace

-good possibility no WWII in this scenario, with a more thoroughly defeated Germany and an enforced peace, no "stab in the back" myth and no opportunity for massive re-arming


I'm not seeing to many negatives from this scenario. Am I looking at it wrong?
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