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I want to know how likely this sounds.
Gerald ford (R) 1974-1980
Jerry Brown (D) 1980-1988
Ted Kennedy (D) 1988-1996
Colin Powell (R) 1996-2004
John Mc Cain (R) 2004-2008
The idea here is that republicans end up winning in 1976 only to than be in the wilderness for 16 years, with a democrat in power during the cold war that ends around 1993 instead. The GOP reforms considerably to the point that Colin Powell comfortably runs in 1996 for the presidency shifting the GOP to the center (they’re still pretty right wing however) while democrats moved to the left in general after having multiple liberal presidencies. The GOP retains an urban base and liberal wing in this scenario while the Democrats managed to keep more of the working class. One of the general trends is that it became common that a political party holds the presidency for 3-4 terms instead of switching hands every 2 terms with set exceptions.
The political events I didn’t think of much, but one of the big differences is more tension with China than in OTL as China never joins the WTO and the Soviet Union falls with more of a struggle as there is no gorbachev due to butterflies.