AHC: A Prohibition Party President

[ZachMettenbergerFan]

Hey, alliteration! So, how hard would it be to put a member of the Prohibition Party into the White House?

The Prohibition Party, for anyone not knowing, is a party that was founded in 1869 dedicated to the outlaw of the production, sale, and use of alcohol, which they succeeded in creating in 1916 with the 18th Amendment, but was later abolished in 1933 after the practice resulted in the creation of several speakeasies and increased power to gangsters who distributed illegal alcohol.

In the 2016 election, the Prohibition Party received 5,567 votes.

 

[CLEMENT_ATLEES_SOCKS]

Hey, alliteration! So, how hard would it be to put a member of the Prohibition Party into the White House?

The Prohibition Party, for anyone not knowing, is a party that was founded in 1869 dedicated to the outlaw of the production, sale, and use of alcohol, which they succeeded in creating in 1916 with the 18th Amendment, but was later abolished in 1933 after the practice resulted in the creation of several speakeasies and increased power to gangsters who distributed illegal alcohol.

In the 2016 election, the Prohibition Party received 5,567 votes.

Have the prohibition party see limited success in the 70s

Have the Democrats relegate themselves to a regional southern party incapable of waging national campaigns

Have the disparate populist, greenback and northern democratic party remnants unite under the Prohibition Banner under a proto-Christian Democratic Party, think socially conservative economically populist

Have the Prohibition Coalition led by upstart Senator William Jennings Bryan lead the party to victory in the election of 1900 as the first non-republican/democratic president since Zachary Taylor's election in 1848 against the northern liberal corporate establishment

that's the best I can come up with

 

[Gorrister]

Have the government get rid of alcohol taxes at some point, so the economic arguments against temperance aren't as great.

 

[Arkenfolm]

Avoid the 18th Amendment to keep the party nationally "strong". Then in the 1930s have the Prohibition Party take on an increasingly far-right and para-fascist stance. Their sole elected governor, Sidney Johnston Catts, was certainly of the far-right sort.

I don't think they'd get the presidency without some serious shenanigans though. Like a heated primary, where the loser jumps ship to the Prohibition Party and then manages to get his way into the Presidency in the subsequent election somehow.