GOP disappears

JoeMulk

Banned
I was thinking, maybe in the 1930s the GOP would go the way of the whigs since a vast majority of the country from all walks of life simply started to associate them with the wealthy, maybe if the economic downterm of 37/38 had been averted and the Democrats expanded majorities again in that election to the point where they just became a rump party. What would happen next if there was essentially one party rule for a short time?
 
Difficult to say. The New Deal will likely be more far-reaching, which is a good thing. If the Democrats retain their large majorities into WWII, then they will keep them until after the war. After the war, if the GOP doesn't recover, another pro-business party will rise up.
 
I can see it, in the 1932 and 1936 elections the GOP was pushed to only New England, so some one like Alf Landon in 1940...
 
Probably the same as always happens. The winning party splits in two, since there is no external rival to keep its factions together. Possibly the Southern Dems break away and absorb what's left of the Republicans. A bit ironic in view of the GOP's history, but odder things have occurred from time to time.
 

JoeMulk

Banned
Probably the same as always happens. The winning party splits in two, since there is no external rival to keep its factions together. Possibly the Southern Dems break away and absorb what's left of the Republicans. A bit ironic in view of the GOP's history, but odder things have occurred from time to time.

Maybe the New England Republicans become Democrats, and the Taftite conservatives merge with the southern Democrats. Makes the most sense ideologically. If dixiecrats leave the party then it means the Democrats can embrace civil rights earlier then OTL.
 
Democrats asborb the liberal Republicans in the Northeast. The Dixiecrats split and join with the pro-business Republican conservatives to form a new party.
 

elder.wyrm

Banned
Not going to happen. The moment one party sees its coalition shrinking, it innovates in order to grow.

The time of ideological parties in the US was long over by the 1930's.

If, somehow, the Democrats start pulling on the Republican base in some way that they retain even larger majorities post-war, I can see it being the Republicans fighting hardest for Civil Rights come the 50's and 60's.
 
It's the "era of good feelings" all over again, but with more tragic results, and, in the end, results in a Northern Democratic Party and a Southern Democratic Party, albeit with likely different names. Maybe a rump GOP survives as a libertarian (in the U.S. sense) party in the Mountain West. Meanwhile, economic stagnation caused by unchecked state power ultimately leads to the revival of the party in the Mountain West to national prominence and triggers a cultural shift along the way, but with only limited results.
 
Well here is an idea. FDR Does not panic about the deficit and reverse some New Deal policies, Unemployment is lower and Dems hold more ground in 1938

Republicans manage to run an out and out isolationist who is fairly comfortably defeated

Are discredited after Pearl Harbor

FDR nominates a moderat Republican running mate in 44.

Said candidate deeplu opposes the republican right
 
Well here is an idea. FDR Does not panic about the deficit and reverse some New Deal policies, Unemployment is lower and Dems hold more ground in 1938

Republicans manage to run an out and out isolationist who is fairly comfortably defeated

Are discredited after Pearl Harbor

FDR nominates a moderat Republican running mate in 44.

Said candidate deeplu opposes the republican right
So basically Robert Taft '40, FDR/Willkie '44

FDR wanted to have Willkie lead the Liberal Republicans with the New Deal Dems to leave the Southerners and Taft Republicans out in the cold to form a "Liberal Party" but then Willkie died
 
You know, running an isolationis in 1940 might not have hurt the GOP in 1940 as much as running Willkie did.
 
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