Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: With a POD after 1953, have Barry Goldwater be nominated by the Democrats for president and have him win.
Maybe have Goldwater be a John Tyler analog: He doesn't like the leaders of the Republican Party, so he goes to a Democratic Ticket with someone he either likes, or offers him something (like the offer of becoming President when his term is up).
Only problem with that analogy is that John Tyler had been a Democrat before he had been a Whig and, eventually dissatisfied with both parties, hoped to start his own party (which was never realized given he dropped out of the 1844 race).
...Libertarian Party after a disastrous Term?
The Libertarians did not exist until the very end of 1971.
I meant Goldwater forms an early Libertarian Party.