DBWI: Wilson never runs for a 3rd term

OOC: Inspired by @Emperor Julian 's TL, Ruins of an American Party System

IC: Wilson running for a third term has always perplexed me. I mean, I know he was just a compromise candidate, but the fact that the Democrats even thought of breaking Washington's tradition has interested me. So, I thought, what if Wilson did not run for a 3rd term? Would the Democratic party still exist? If so, would they be a far-right party (like they were before they died out) or a mildly liberal party?
 
OOC: Inspired by @Emperor Julian 's TL, Ruins of an American Party System

IC: Wilson running for a third term has always perplexed me. I mean, I know he was just a compromise candidate, but the fact that the Democrats even thought of breaking Washington's tradition has interested me. So, I thought, what if Wilson did not run for a 3rd term? Would the Democratic party still exist? If so, would they be a far-right party (like they were before they died out) or a mildly liberal party?

I think that the party would have inevitably fall apart between its economically populist northeastern liberals and the southern conservative wings. Remember the same people who formed the Constitution's Conservative Front to oppose the Fair Democracy program were members of the Democratic Party's conservative wing.
 
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