It is nearing the 40th anniversary of the '72 French Revolution and the subsequent nuking of Lyon and Hanoi by President LeMay. It is often thought that avoiding Wallace's assassination a year earlier would have prevented nuclear war and that Chicago, St. Petersburg, Taipei and Shanghai would not have been destroyed, sparking off the Second American Civil War after a military coup attempt, but I think the unrest and anxiety in America's cities thanks to Wallace's reactionarism (not to mention the snowballing mutinies in 'Nam) may have meant the good ol' USA as the bulwark of capitalist democracy was doomed. We'd have to back further to stop that I think. Maybe if Nixon didn't have that huge scandal? Maybe if Humphrey kept the unions firmly in the Democratic Party? LeMay and the rollback of civil rights really were some of the dumbest political choices imaginable, and I don't think they can be handwaved lightly.