DBWI: What if Manson had never been president

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Charles Manson, one of the worst US presidents ever, if not the worst. During his two terms, he managed to make international relationships worse and almost started a second civil war. It was because of his charisma that he was reelected, but in the end it wasn't enough to save him since his own bodyguards shot him.

So, my question is: what if he'd never decided to go into politics?
 
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Charles Manson, one of the worst US presidents ever, if not the worst. During his two terms, he managed to make international relationships worse and almost started a second civil war. It was because of his charisma that he was reelected, but in the end it wasn't enough to save him since his own bodyguards shot him.

So, my question is: what if he'd never decided to go into politics?
OOC: Please, no....
 
To think he was so incredibly popular when he was re-elected in ‘76. Dude won every state except Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and DC of course.

Simply put, he blasted Nixon in the Republican primaries, calling him a “Negro-loving cuck,” whatever that means. All the voters who were pissed off about the Civil Rights movement, integration, etc. flocked to him, and especially so when George Wallace threw his hat in with the charismatic Manson and became his VP.

But it wasn’t his foreign policy or his antagonizing of the black community that sank Manson - it was the same thing The buoyed him in ‘72 and ‘76 and the same thing that it always comes down to: the damn economy. When that went sour, his approval rating plummeted from the 70s to somewhere in the teens almost overnight. It’s why candidates these days are fond of saying the only color they care about is green.

And when the Secret Service shot Manson dead in an “accident,” they expected Wallace to be just as bad but he turned out to be much better. China never forgave America for nuking Shanghai and bombing Beijing, not to mention turning North Korea into an eventually overthrown puppet state that morphed into some kind of military junta, but Wallace opened relations with Moscow and his influence is credited with warming relations between Moscow and DC.

Wallace couldn’t help the economy, though, and the Second Depression sank the GOP for decades to come.
 
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Race relations would almost certainly be far better than they are today. We've had some racist ass people in office, but Manson really seemed to be actively trying to spark a race war. More than anything, the man just seemed ticked off at the world, and he was probably straight up insane. I know hindsight's always 20/20 and all that, but Christ, how did nobody see it at the time? He was a political nobody at the time he ran for the Presidency, only 38 when he took office and basically just spent (almost) a full 8 years setting the world on fire. Democracy has its place and all, but goddamn, I have to say that I think the Secret Service did the right thing.
 
No conspiracy theories!

Just sayin', Manson made things so bad that the US elected Jesse Jackson in 1980, and reelected him in 1984. Jesse Jackson, who just a few years prior would've been an electoral disaster, won two of the largest electoral landslides in our history. If that doesn't tell you how bad Manson was, I don't know what does.
 
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