Those riots would really raise hell for the American left, I think, at least in regards to labor issues. That's going to be a pretty intractable wedge between organized labor and intellectual liberals, and I'm not sure exactly what the fallout is going to be.
It seems like there's a solid base there for a populist movement, supporting both protectionism and labor support over bosses while also militant nationalism and possibly some whiffs of racial supremacy and religious fundamentalism.
Then on the other side of the aisle, the urban left is going to be considerably disaffected, and without natural allies and possibly fall out of the political spotlight. The coalition had splintered enough as it is without a massive beatdown by organized labor.
And this in the light where a Peace Democrat just cost the War Democrat a presidential election!
The big questions going forward are these:
a.) What's going on with blacks in this timeline? Tower voted against the Civil Rights Act, so I'm not sure he's could be a bigger enemy than Nixon was.
and
b.) Where does the anti-war movement go? It seems like nobody can do anything to hold them together, and while the war is getting more popular under Tower than it's been in some time, it's been going on for a heck of a long time at this point, and the end seems no closer. A lot of people are dying out there.
It seems like there's a solid base there for a populist movement, supporting both protectionism and labor support over bosses while also militant nationalism and possibly some whiffs of racial supremacy and religious fundamentalism.
Then on the other side of the aisle, the urban left is going to be considerably disaffected, and without natural allies and possibly fall out of the political spotlight. The coalition had splintered enough as it is without a massive beatdown by organized labor.
And this in the light where a Peace Democrat just cost the War Democrat a presidential election!
The big questions going forward are these:
a.) What's going on with blacks in this timeline? Tower voted against the Civil Rights Act, so I'm not sure he's could be a bigger enemy than Nixon was.
and
b.) Where does the anti-war movement go? It seems like nobody can do anything to hold them together, and while the war is getting more popular under Tower than it's been in some time, it's been going on for a heck of a long time at this point, and the end seems no closer. A lot of people are dying out there.