DBWI: McKinley dies in assassination attempt

Early in William McKinley’s Second Term, he was shot and nearly killed by a radical anarchist. What if he doesn’t survive? His VP, Theodore Roosevelt, seems to have been an interesting character with some progressive ideas, especially for a Republican at the time. Is there any chance for some progressive reforms decades earlier than OTL? Of course, the failed assassination set back progressivism and populism as associated with the assassination plot, and the US wouldn’t elect a Progressive President until Hoover in 1932 for that reason. I’d also be interested in potential affects on foreign policy, as McKinley and subsequently President Fairbanks were more isolationist than Roosevelt seems to have been.
 
Early in William McKinley’s Second Term, he was shot and nearly killed by a radical anarchist. What if he doesn’t survive? His VP, Theodore Roosevelt, seems to have been an interesting character with some progressive ideas, especially for a Republican at the time. Is there any chance for some progressive reforms decades earlier than OTL? Of course, the failed assassination set back progressivism and populism as associated with the assassination plot, and the US wouldn’t elect a Progressive President until Hoover in 1932 for that reason. I’d also be interested in potential affects on foreign policy, as McKinley and subsequently President Fairbanks were more isolationist than Roosevelt seems to have been.

McKinley's second term was a disaster: he totally mishandled the 1902 coal strike and his plan to build a canal through Nicaragua was a failure. Ultimately Roosevelt was passed over by the party bosses in favor of Fairbanks in 1904, though he was easily defeated by William Randolph Hearst. But to his credit Fairbanks was able to make a comeback in 1912.

Given that Roosevelt was a progressive, he might've tried to bring the 1902 coal strike to a negotiated settlement instead of violently cracking down on the unions.
 

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McKinley's second term was a disaster: he totally mishandled the 1902 coal strike and his plan to build a canal through Nicaragua was a failure. Ultimately Roosevelt was passed over by the party bosses in favor of Fairbanks in 1904, though he was easily defeated by William Randolph Hearst. But to his credit Fairbanks was able to make a comeback in 1912.
But then his presidency was stagnant (he did not achieve anything) and he lost to Champ Clark 4 years later. Clark then created the Federal Reserve, lowered tariffs, and successfully mediated the Great War outcome in a way that benefited everyone except for Austria-Hungary (which disintegrated) and Communist Russia: France got back Alsace-Lorraine, Italy acquired Venetia, Trieste and Fiume, Germany got Austria and Sudetenland to compensate for the lost of Alsace-Lorraine and North Schlewig. Poland was also created as a buffer state against Communist Russia.
 
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