easy don't have Theodore Roosevelt become vice president
sounds familiar....A delayed progressivism from an assassinate Teddy back when he was VP and then a few more conservative presidents could work. By that point, the means for more secretive lobbying and donations, which would cement corporate interests as a driving elite hyperpluralism behind American government.
Nah, we’ve got normal pluralism in OTL current day US. Plus, let’s not bring up politics in the alternate history threads.sounds familiar....