For Other Times

How about applying the For All Times method of "and then it got worse..." to other PODs and time periods?

I'd argue that our very own admin's Atomic League timeline has a bit of that going on at the beginning. I'm surprised the American revolutionaries actually won despite all of those failures.
 
Longer, bloodier civil war leads to oppressive military dictatorship in the US and occupation of the former Confederacy in such a way that would make even the Radical Republicans blush. The huge strain caused by the guerrilla war in the South leads to communist revolution in the North, which in turn allows the South to break off into a series of small republics that are massively corrupt at best and Klan-dominated proto-fascist at worst (there were segregationist paramilitary groups IOTL, the Red Shirts I believe?).
Don't know what could happen in Europe or Asia. Maybe proto-fascist revanchists in France that conduct Trail of Tears-style ethnic cleansing on the Algerians and West Africans, and/or earlier rise of communism?
 
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