AH challenge: Communist President of the USA

your challenge is with a POD not before 1875 have a President elected on a Communist Ticket.

Rules:
they have to be elected
they have to give up power to an Elected president
no USSR invasion or BS like that

go
 
Revolutions are just violent elections. I'd think that a revolution is an election gone so awry that people vote lives not ballots.

That's a bit too philosophical...I like it.

Hmm....have America rapidly failing, while China is rapidly rising (much like now, actually). The (mostly, sorry) idiotic citizens of America listen to the charismatic speaker who says that they succeed because they are Communist, and he's so dang convincing, the GSA (Gullible States of America) elect said man, who, after his 8 years of (temporarily) staving off America's inevitable decline, passes on power to his elected successor...another Communist.


(Yes, I'm a self-hating American. What're you gonna do, sue me?)
 

Kosovic

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That's a bit too philosophical...I like it.

Hmm....have America rapidly failing, while China is rapidly rising (much like now, actually). The (mostly, sorry) idiotic citizens of America listen to the charismatic speaker who says that they succeed because they are Communist, and he's so dang convincing, the GSA (Gullible States of America) elect said man, who, after his 8 years of (temporarily) staving off America's inevitable decline, passes on power to his elected successor...another Communist.


(Yes, I'm a self-hating American. What're you gonna do, sue me?)

So now communists are bad?
 
Alien Space Bats fly down from orbit to the United States, put some Socialist sense into the American people, but then wash it off with Bolshevist radicalism and wallah - you get an American communist president.
Anyway, this cannot be down without a pre-ARW POD.
 
Hmm. No USSR, Communism doesn't get the bashing it did in the Cold War, Communism gradually becomes more and more popular in the US and eventually a Communist narrowly wins? Implausible, perhaps, but I don't think it's ASB.
 
Hitler is killed in WWI, and the Soviet Union looses the Russian civil war, and Russia eventually goes Fascist. Slightly later on, the Communists loose out in Germany is well. Afraid of the onslaught of fascism, the west supports the Spanish left against France and the Chinese Communists against the Japanese. The Nationalist Chinese are more fascistic and in fact end up a Japanese puppet.

World War II is a more harrowing experience and started with a Spanish, German and Italian conquest of France in a mad attempt to establish a new world order. By 1946 America has nuclear weapons and used them to finally defeat Japan in 1952, Germany falls a few years later.

Europe is in ruins. Communist resistance groups in continental Europe and much of Asia have won prestige from the war. Many people in the west feel that if Communism had established itself in Germany and Russia, the whole war could have been avoided.

The new French government is an experimental communist state, which soon allies itself with a Socialist Britain and Gramsci's Italy. Maosist China is seen as something of a separate movement.

In the 70's, after German independence and the establishment of another Communist state the idea of Marxism has made it over to America. This is so significant that following a schism in the Democratic Party that sees many of its members joining a wider Socialist alliance, the CPUSA breaks with the traditional two party system and gets a president elected once.

This president finds himself opposed by a strong Republican legislature and supreme court. After four years, he looses power. Allowing the Republicans to enjoy five uninterrupted terms in office before finally being defeated by a new Libertarian Democratic Party.

Kind of ASB. I think I could do better. Hmm.
 
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