DBWI: Theodore Roosevelt not elected President in 1912?

As we all know, Theodore Roosevelt won the Republican nomination and then the Presidency in 1912, defeating Champ Clark, the Democratic nominee, getting an unprecedented third term and allowing him to pursue a new set of progressive reforms under the "New Nationalist" banner which helped solidify the Republican Party as the party of American progress and liberalism and led to the Democrats becoming the "conservative" party, but what if Theodore Roosevelt didn't win the Republican nomination in 1912 along with the Presidential elections in the same year? How would that affect the United States? Was the US party system developing into a "Liberal Republicans, Conservative Democrats" system inevitable? Or could it have been reversed with the Democrats becoming the "liberal" party and the Republicans becoming the "conservative" party (maybe President Philander Knox wins the nomination for the Republicans while Woodrow Wilson wins the Democratic nomination)?
 
The republican party freed the slaves, that was the entire reason why it was created.

Theres no way for a party based on that concept to be a bastion of conservatism.
 
The republican party freed the slaves, that was the entire reason why it was created.

Theres no way for a party based on that concept to be a bastion of conservatism.
Well, the political parties back then in the US contained a roughly equal amount of progressives and conservatives and personality (and regional interests) mattered more than ideology in party politics back then.
 
No European War involvement, probably. TR got the US on-side with Britain and France right away in the face of opposition at home. Without American support and overwhelming American industrial power, the war might have gone on longer than 1916.

Which led to another butterfly. American commitment against Germany led to them occupying the Pacific islands. Which in turn led to the signature of the Pacific Accord with Japan, delineating American and Japanese spheres of influence. Many have claimed that TR's scrupulous fairness prevented a future conflict between the two... dunno how possible that would have been. It did encourage amicable relations between the two though.
 
No European War involvement, probably. TR got the US on-side with Britain and France right away in the face of opposition at home. Without American support and overwhelming American industrial power, the war might have gone on longer than 1916.
I could see harsher terms being implemented against Germany as at least in OTL, there was a (rigged) referendum in Alsace-Lorraine where an "overwhelming majority" of people in Alsace-Lorraine voted to rejoin France for starters.
 
No Theodore Roosevelt Presidency 2.0 means that William Howard Taft does not get into the Supreme Court.
 
Maybe the Sailor Fuku would not have been establishled as a school uniform in many parts of the South, even as ironically Japan has gotten away from it? Also maybe we wouldn't have so many Japanese players in the Major Leagues and in boxing?

Taro Yamazaki vs Marvin Hagler was a great trilogy, and Taro vs Sugar Ray Leonard was a great bout as well, even with a controversial finish.
 
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