In the post-WW 1 period there was a depression in 1920 that was partly caused by the shift away from a wartime economy. WI it had lasted longer, and been aggravated by the subsequent 1923 recession? What effect would it have had on the 1924 Presidential elections?
The candidates were:
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
With a 1920s Great Depression, would the Democrats have courted LaFollette as their liberal/populist nominee? Or would somebody else-like Al Smith, who also ran for the nomination but lost due to a party that was divided over prohibition-have won the nomination-and possibly the election, as well? And what would have been the fate of prohibition afterwards?