Are there any PODs that could result in the GOP becoming the party of Robert A. Taft?

Robert A. Taft was anti-war, against Japanese internment, and for civil rights, but economically, he was significantly to the right of Dewey. Is there any way that the GOP could end up being the anti-war, pro-civil-rights, and pro-civil-liberties party?
 
Jimmy Byrnes replaces Truman as V-P in 1944. He goes all full anti-civil rights and martial law after the US and USSR end up in an accidental war over the remains of Germany, Operation Unthinkable Style. He also has to use a whole host of WMD's-nukes, poison gas, bioweapons, to put down Japan and the USSR.

With no main threat, and huge casualties post-WW2 and 2.5, a civil rights crisis, and America's main "enemy" being an imperialist Great Britain, (now lead by Clement Atlee) the US chooses to "return to normality" and chooses Taft.

Taft, posing as an anti-imperialist, promotes a world court (as he wanted OTL), is generally isolationist (but enforces the Monroe doctrine to keep the imperialist Brits Out). He also enforces civil rights whilst attacking apartheid and imperialism. To top it off, he defies the "British Keynsian Consensous" at home and rolls back part (but not all) the New Deal.

Thanks in part to US resources being devoted home, and Taft defying party promises for Tarrifs, the US blooms economically post-war. While the UK and France are embroiled in long-term colonial conflicts that sap their resources and manpower, the US prospers at home as per OTL. The bonus is that earlier integration in the south probably brings business to such a poor area (as it kills the power of Southern Agrarians and makes conducting business there less unsightly, though air conditioning helps) and an end to "Pittsburgh Plus" steel pricing. Also, depending on your personal political views, better economic policy would help the recovery.

Lets assume that with such destruction, vs the USSR and Japan, and no (idiotic) fear that Communists were supporting civil rights (especially as the UK backs Apartheid and France abuses the Vietnamese), civil rights goes smoother in the US.

Taft is seen as the man who brought the US out of the Depression, out of permanent overseas conflict, and into a new age of unity and the premature destruction of the New Deal Coalition ("which truly died in Europe versus the Soviets or on the beaches of Japan on X-Day).

Maybe I should write a Taft-Wank with this as the plot...
 
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