Democratic Eisenhower?

Let's say Truman loses against Dewey in 1948, and Dewey has the same foreign policy as Truman and loses China and is fighting the Korean War. Would Eisenhower run as Democrat and if so would he still be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative or would he run a typical Southern Democract? Would he still have the same amount of popular support?
 
Let's say Truman loses against Dewey in 1948, and Dewey has the same foreign policy as Truman and loses China and is fighting the Korean War. Would Eisenhower run as Democrat and if so would he still be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative or would he run a typical Southern Democract? Would he still have the same amount of popular support?

The only reason Eisenhower ran in 1952 was fear that Taft might win otherwise--because he considered Taft an isolationist. He even had a meeting with Taft and offered not to run if Taft would only commit himself to support collective security--something that Taft did not do to Ike's sarisfaction. Someone like Dewey--an internationalist on foreign policy and a moderate on domestic policy--would be perfectly satisfactory to Ike, who would have no reason to run in this alt-1952.
 
Let's say Truman loses against Dewey in 1948, and Dewey has the same foreign policy as Truman and loses China and is fighting the Korean War. Would Eisenhower run as Democrat and if so would he still be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative or would he run a typical Southern Democract? Would he still have the same amount of popular support?

It probably doesn't matter which party he decides to run for. His war record is basically an I Win button. If Ike decides to run for President he wins. Period.
 
I understand Truman offered to be Ike's VP, and Ike rode the fence about what party to support for a long time, eventually settling on the GOP. Now if he runs in 1948 with that offer, he wins easily and the question becomes who runs in 1956. I wonder then, with the Dems winning six in a row, if the GOP becomes something of a permanent opposition party or if they win one in 1956 to get back on track.

Also, is there any possibility of Eisenhower pulling off a win for the KMT in China or at least a stalemate/split? Long shot, sure, but maybe he can figure something out.
 
He came from a Republican family and considered himself a Republican (even if he kept mum during his military service), so I think it's would be hard to pull off.
 
I understand Truman offered to be Ike's VP, and Ike rode the fence about what party to support for a long time, eventually settling on the GOP. Now if he runs in 1948 with that offer, he wins easily and the question becomes who runs in 1956. I wonder then, with the Dems winning six in a row, if the GOP becomes something of a permanent opposition party or if they win one in 1956 to get back on track.

Also, is there any possibility of Eisenhower pulling off a win for the KMT in China or at least a stalemate/split? Long shot, sure, but maybe he can figure something out.

The Republicans won 6 in a row from 1860 to 1880, and that didn't keep the Democrats from getting Grover Cleveland in, so I think the Republicans are fine. Really, I can't imagine America going any significant length of time without a right-wing party at all, much less during the Cold War, and the New Deal Coalition was riddled with internal contradictions, with the Dixiecrats simply being the most pronounced of these. As for China, I'm pretty sure the Japanese mortally wounded the KMT during their death throes, and by 1949 it was certainly too late to change that.
 
Could Dewey have underperformed Eisenhower's expectations in order to keep the peace in his party, perhaps?
 
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