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If Republican Charles Evans Hughes would have defeated Democrat Woodrow Wilson for the U.S. Presidency and the U.S. still entered World War I afterwards (as is likely, since Wilson was the pro-peace candidate and yet the Germans were still willing to antagonize him in our TL), what would have been the Democrats' position on the League of Nations (or its ATL equivalent) as well as on having the U.S. ally with Britain and France after the end of World War I?

Basically, I am curious about this considering that, in our TL, the Republicans (which captured Congress in the 1918 midterm elections) were willing to meet President Wilson halfway and agree to U.S. entry into the League of Nations with reservations as well as to a U.S. alliance with Britain and France after the end of World War I (with them viewing it as a concrete and better alternative to the League of Nations' open-ended commitment). Meanwhile, in this TL, the Democrats are probably going to keep their control of Congress (and very possibly expand the size of their majority there) in the 1918 midterm elections (since Hughes will be the U.S. President in this TL and thus the subject of criticism for his handling of the war). Indeed, a Democratic-controlled Congress in 1919 (after a Hughes victory in 1916) might be less inclined and less willing to agree to any post-war U.S. foreign commitments considering that the Democrats were the pro-peace party in 1916. Thus, in this TL, the Democrats might reluctantly vote for World War I in the U.S. Congress but be adamant that a large-scale U.S. troop commitment to Europe never happen again.

Anyway, I was wondering about what everyone else here thinks about this. Indeed, would a Democratic-controlled Congress in 1919 have given President Hughes even more of a headache over the Versailles Treaty and League of Nations than the Republican-controlled Congress gave President Wilson in 1919 in our TL?

Also, would a Democratic-controlled Congress in 1919 have been willing to ratify U.S. membership of the League of Nations (under any circumstances) and/or a post-WWI U.S. treaty of alliance with Britain and France? Finally, would President Hughes have been more willing to compromise with Congressional Democrats in 1919 in this TL than President Wilson was with Congressional Republicans in our TL?

Any thoughts on all of this?
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