Cliche Presidents & PMs thread

What would he be? Some sort of Radical Republican? A dictator?

Think what the Radicals wanted, but even more so. It's interesting, because he wants things for the right reasons, but ultimately, he'd be doing monstrous acts because of those motivations.

@SargentHawk, I'm sure at least 3 people would have been banned in that thread.
 
Think what the Radicals wanted, but even more so. It's interesting, because he wants things for the right reasons, but ultimately, he'd be doing monstrous acts because of those motivations.

@SargentHawk, I'm sure at least 3 people would have been banned in that thread.

You know what they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
 
the base plan was going to be him standing himself up as a dictator and forcing change on the nation how he saw fit. I was also going to have him develop a very "one way or the other" type mentality with an almost inability to negotiate.
 
I once talked to my mother about him briefly, and said that he was a reviled figure in India, even before his death. She said that he could never have become PM, because he was so hated.

But his last name would have made him a shoe-in if he was still alive when his mother died.
 
Exactly my point. She wanted him, too. His survival has butterflies, and I think he'd succeed her.

I agree. Just look at how Rajiv Gandhi was pushed into becoming PM despite not wanting it. Sanjay Gandhi would want it, so despite being a loathed figure, I think he would succeed his Mother.
 
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talking about that old idea made me want to make a titlecard for it again. thought i'd share it.
 
style wise, I just think he looks more menacing without it. But as for in the timeline, I recall having the reason that his altered personality saw it as unclean and unbecoming of a President.
 
Has anyone ever done later Richard Nixon? Nixon in the 80s would be an interesting twist.

I once saw a list where Nixon was president from 1973 to 1996, when he died, and have seen other lists where Nixon serves from '81-'89 as an alt-Reagan.

I have not seen any Nixon-in-the-80's timelines, though.
 
I don't know if counts as a cliche, but Hugh Gaitskell was really, really close. Almost tragically close. Any British politics TL set in the 50s or 60s could easily include him.
 
style wise, I just think he looks more menacing without it. But as for in the timeline, I recall having the reason that his altered personality saw it as unclean and unbecoming of a President.

Mary looked at Abraham. No, President Lincoln, she reminded herself. He is the President now. That is who he will be. "What are you doing, Ab-" She paused, collected herself. "Mr. President?"

"I am shaving this thing off," replied the man that had once been her husband. "It is not who I am any more." He shrugged, and added simply, "I am the Great Emancipator, sent by the Lord to wreak vengeance."

I got chills as I wrote that. Scary AH prose is something I'm good at, I guess.
 
A very popular figure in Shared Worlds is Ron Paul. Though I have yet to see a timeline where he becomes president (though there was one where he became the 2012 Republican nominee).
 
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