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There was a short-lived board shared timeline by election called the AH Chain Mk. 1 which had President Dewey sacking MacArthur in Korea, causing the latter to become a Democratic presidential candidate in revenge. He didn't get nominated, but he was an option in that timeline, which I am still amused by to this day (it wasn't the most plausible scenario). That said, the seemingly-overwhelming majority of Republican military leaders in WWII makes me wonder who could possibly challenge Eisenhower in '52. WWI guys like Truman don't count for the sake of this thread. Could Patton run as a Dixiecrat? If there aren't any generals, were any of the admirals such as King or Nimitz possibly Democrats, or even have any political ambitions at all? Anyway I was robbed of the irony of MacArthur as a Dem so I wanna see what's the next best thing. I'm also specifying '52 because I want to see two WWII military leaders battle it out in the election, and no switching Eisenhower over to Democrat does not count that's just lazy.