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Advise and Consent is a famous political thriller series that won the Pulitzer Prize. How would that timeline workout?
Basically the United States becomes polarized in the Cold War between the hawks and the doves (which includes the KKK and the Black Panthers incidentally) and at the Democratic convention a hawk and dove are nominated respectively for POTUS and VP. There is an assassination and there are actually two divergent TLs-in one the hawk dies and dovish candidates is elected and basically surrenders everywhere and the US becomes a Soviet puppet state. In the other one the dovish candidate dies and the hawk becomes elected President and in a USSR-PRC war intervenes.