DBWI: Dewey loses in 1944

In December of 1943, FDR had a stroke and passed away. His VP, Henry Wallace, was more hesitant than FDR concerning WW2 action, and was widely seen as even more progressive. Wallace picked FDR’s Secretary of State Hull as his VP to improve his credibility among the more conservative and hawkish wing of the party, but the gesture failed. He faced a primary challenge from Carter Glass of Virginia, which split the Democratic Party in 2 before the election of 1944. Dewey was the favorite going in, and he won big, only losing 8 states, 6 of which were in the South and which Glass won. How different would the world look if FDR lived through the next election and been able to win?
 
FDR winning in '44 might have brought about a serious attempt to put term limits in place. Dewey staying in office til '60 let the Republicans have their extended stay in the White House and squashed any desire to seriously put them in place. They couldn't very well put term limits on when their boy smashed FDRs record
 
FDR winning in '44 might have brought about a serious attempt to put term limits in place. Dewey staying in office til '60 let the Republicans have their extended stay in the White House and squashed any desire to seriously put them in place. They couldn't very well put term limits on when their boy smashed FDRs record

True, but that went against the Republicans in 1960. The Democrats were ripped in two after the failure of the compromise ticket of 1948 headed by Senator Truman, which paved the way for Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon’s National Conservative Party which won the election of 1960 and controlled government until 1992.
 
FDR winning in '44 might have brought about a serious attempt to put term limits in place. Dewey staying in office til '60 let the Republicans have their extended stay in the White House and squashed any desire to seriously put them in place. They couldn't very well put term limits on when their boy smashed FDRs record

This is why DBWI discussions always fall apart. In the wake of the Great Depression and WW2 if the Republican Party had gotten twenty plus years in the White House to undo the New Deal, bring back the robber barons and treat American workers like trash while showering goodies on their rich friends the way that political party has for the last century then USSR would have won the Cold War because America would have collapsed. Please think things through.
 
This is why DBWI discussions always fall apart. In the wake of the Great Depression and WW2 if the Republican Party had gotten twenty plus years in the White House to undo the New Deal, bring back the robber barons and treat American workers like trash while showering goodies on their rich friends the way that political party has for the last century then USSR would have won the Cold War because America would have collapsed. Please think things through.


OOC: That kind of defeats the purpose of a DBWI? Supposed to be spontaneous and reactive. Think it would have gone that way, make an in character post about it. Tell us how this loses the cold war
 
OOC: That kind of defeats the purpose of a DBWI? Supposed to be spontaneous and reactive. Think it would have gone that way, make an in character post about it. Tell us how this loses the cold war
The USA would’ve been weakened by the large divide between rich and poor and attempts at quashing socialism and so on would be met more harshly when the socialists come off as the better
 
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