List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[Alienspacebats]

Fear Nothing But God

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I always want do Digger or Leveller Britain but I did was put Leveller and Digger in America (Which make wounder if some put the idea of Diggerism in America TL)​

 

[Mumby]

British Macro-... no. nonononono

1997-2007: Tony Blair (Labour)
1997 GE (Labour majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), David Trimble (UUP)
2001 PME 1st round def. William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
2001 PME 2nd round def. William Hague (Conservative)
2001 LE (Labour majority) def. William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
2005 PME 1st round def. Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Roger Knapman (UKIP)
2005 PME 2nd round def. Michael Howard (Conservative)
2005 LE (Labour majority) def. Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Ian Paisley (DUP)
2007-2009: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2009-2014: David Cameron (Conservative)
2009 PME 1st round def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2009 PME 2nd round def. Gordon Brown (Labour)
2009 LE (Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Peter Robinson (DUP)
2013 PME 1st round def. Ed Miliband (Labour), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Natalie Bennett (Green)
2013 PME 2nd round def. Ed Miliband (Labour)
2013 LE (Conservative-UKIP Coalition) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Peter Robinson (DUP)
2014-2017: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2015 LE (Labour minority) def. Boris Johnson (Conservative), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Paul Nuttall (UKIP)
2017-: Aaron Banks (Patriotic Alliance)
2017 PME 1st round def. Tony Blair (Things (can only get) Better), Jeremy Corbyn (Britannia Unchained), Sajid Javid (Conservative), Tom Watson (Labour)
2017 PME 2nd round def. Tony Blair (Things (can only get) Better)
2017 LE (Patriotic Alliance majority) def. Sajid Javid (Conservative), Tom Watson (Labour), none (Britannia Unchained), Tony Blair (Things (can only get) Better)

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[CanadianTory]

Just a list I scribbled down while working on something.

Prime Ministers of Canada
22. Stephen Harper (Conservative) 2006-2016
2006 (min.): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Jack Layton (New Democratic)
2008 (min.): Stéphane Dion (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Jack Layton (New Democratic), Elizabeth May (Green)
2011 (maj.): Jack Layton (New Democratic), Michael Ignatieff (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Elizabeth May (Green)
2015 (min.): Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic), Bob Rae (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Elizabeth May (Green)
23. Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic)* 2016-2025
2019 (maj.): Maxime Bernier (Conservative), Denis Coderre (Liberal), Martine Ouellet (Bloc Quebecois), Adriane Carr (Green)
2023 (min.): Erin O'Toole (Conservative), David McGuinty (Liberal), Catherine Fournier (Bloc Quebecois), James Beddome (Green)
24. Erin O'Toole (Conservative) 2025-present
2025 (min.): Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic), Catherine Fournier (Bloc Quebecois), David McGuinty (Liberal), James Beddome (Green)
2028 (maj.): Alexandre Boulerice (New Democratic), François-Philippe Champagne (Liberal), Catherine Fournier (Bloc Quebecois), James Beddome (Green)

*I imagine some sort of agreement like that between the BC NDP and the BC Greens.

 

[Gentleman Biaggi]

Tons of U.S political parties? Why not? (This probably isn't that realistic)
Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (P) 1913-1917
Def. Champ Clark/Thomas Marshall (D) William Howard Taft/Nicolas M. Butler (R) Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (S)
Woodrow Wilson/Mitchell Palmer (D) 1917-1921
Def. Hiram Johnson/John M. Parker (P) Charles W. Fairbanks/Elmer Burkett (R) Eugene V. Debs/Robert Lafollette (PFD)
Frank Orren Lowden/Calvin Coolidge (R) 1921-1933
1920 Def. Victor Murdock/William Borah (P) Woodrow Wilson/Mitchell Palmer (D) Eugene V. Debs/Robert Lafollette (PFD)
1924 Def. William Borah/Ira Clifton Copley (P) Mitchell Palmer/Thomas Marshall (D) Robert Lafollette/Upton Sinclair (PFD)
1928 Def. William Borah/Whitmell P. Martin (P) William McAdoo/Albert Ritchie (American/Prohibition) Upton Sinclair/Burton K. Wheeler (PFD) Al Smith/Oscar Underwood (D)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (P) 1933-1945
1932 Def. Joseph Taylor Robinson/Alben W. Barkley (D) Albert Ritchie/Harry Byrd (American) Calvin Coolidge/Herbert Hoover (R) Upton Sinclair/Norman Thomas (PFD)
1936 Def. Albert Richie/Ellison D. Smith (American) Arthur Vandenberg/Robert A. Taft (R) Upton Sinclair/William Lemke (PFD) Huey Long/Alben W. Barkley (D)
1940 Def. Robert Taft/Wendell Willkie (R) Alben W. Barkley/Paul V. McNutt (D) Ellison D. Smith/Harry F. Byrd (American) Upton Sinclair/Henry A. Wallace (PFD)
Earl Warren/Tom Dewey (P) 1945-1949
Def. Harry Truman/Estes Kefauver (D) John W. Bricker/Harold Stassen (R) Richard Russell/Strom Thurmond (American) Henry A. Wallace/Norman Thomas (PFD)
Dwight D. Eisenhower/John Sparkman (D) 1949-1957
1948 Def. Earl Warren/Tom Dewey (P) Robert Taft/Harold Stassen (R) Richard Russell/Fielding L. Wright (American) Henry A. Wallace/Glen Taylor (PFD)
1952 Def. Harold Stassen/Douglas MacArthur (R) Strom Thurmond/Harry F. Byrd (A) Tom Dewey/Claude Pepper (P) Henry A. Wallace/Wayne Morse (PFD)
Hubert Humphrey/John F. Kennedy (P) 1957-1965
1956 Def. John Sparkman/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) Harry F. Byrd/Barry Goldwater (A) Nelson Rockefeller/Everett Dirksen (R) Wayne Morse/Robert Lafollette Jr. (PFD)
1960 Def. Stuart Symington/Adali Stevenson (D) Richard Nixon/William Stratton (R) Strom Thurmond/John S. Battle (A) Mark Hatfield/Ernest Gruening (PFD)

I'll do more later

 

[Yes]

An Attempt At Reverse-American-Politics

Richard M. Nixon (Republican) 1961-1963
1960: def. John Kennedy (Democratic) and unpledged electors ("Dixiecrat")
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
Elected as Eisenhower's success, he had grand plans all unfortunately ceased by his assassination in Boston.

Henry C. Lodge, Jr. (Republican) 1963-1969
1964: def. Eugene McCarthy (Democratic) and unpledged electors ("Southern Vigilance")
"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."
The president of the "New Society" reforms shepherded by moderate and conservative advisors, yet criticised by conservatives for being weak on Vietnam.

John Kennedy (Democratic) 1969-1974
1968: def. Milton Young (Republican), John V. Lindsay (Liberal) & unpledged electors ("Southern Vigilance")
1972: def. Guy Vander Jagt (Republican)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"
No longer a young fresh face, this bitter President tried to carve a way left-wards and found obstacles. Brought down by his two obsessions - sex and power, in a scandal that shook Washington.

Carl Albert (Democratic) 1974-1977
"I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.''
The president who had to take over after Kennedy's resignation, he crafted a conciliatory path but couldn't win re-election.

Howard Baker (Republican) 1977-1981
1976: def. Carl Albert (Democratic)
"Listen more often than you speak."
The Governor of Tennessee was elected President on a platform of changing Washington, but the economy stagnated and he lost re-election to a charismatic Governor who promised real change.

Robert Redford (Democratic) 1981-1989
1980: def. Howard Baker (Republican) and Henry M. Jackson (Independent)
1984: def. Bob Dole (Republican)
"We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead. I think we're owed a big, massive apology."
The youthful Robert Redford, Governor of California, was elected President by a frustated populace fed up of the status quo. His presidency was one where the Overton Window was shifted to the left.

Birch Bayh (Democratic) 1989-1993
1988: def. George H. W. Bush (Republican)
"You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us."
Birch Bayh, the vice-president of Robert Redford, was elected more or less on Redford's popularity over the "boring" George H. W. Bush. He would go down to defeat to Bush's son only four years later.

George W. Bush (Republican) 1993-2001
1992: def. Birch Bayh (Democratic) and Lee Iacocca (Independent)
1996: def. Mario Cuomo (Democratic) and Lee Iacocca (Reform)
"I'm a uniter, not a divider."
Folksy, charismatic, inoffensive, that was the Bush people elected to the Oval Office in November 1992. And despite Democratic attacks on his reputation, he left with his head held high in January 2001.

Evan Bayh (Democratic) 2001-2009
2000: def. Christine Schneider (Republican)
2004: def. John McCain (Republican)
"In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy."
Often characterised as greatly inexperienced and "only won because of his daddy", despite his two-term stint as Governor of Indiana, he proved a strong wartime leader, even if a deeply divisive one.

Sarah Palin (Republican) 2009-2017
2008: def. Joe Lieberman (Democratic)
2012: def. Brian Schweitzer (Democratic)
"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion."
Sarah Palin's legacy still shapes the Republican Party. Combining strong religion with a moderate record and a conservative streak, she energised a whole generation of people, even if Democrats obstructed her policies.

Dennis Kucinich (Democratic) 2017-present
2016: def. Laura Bush (Republican)
"This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests."
Despite people saying he'll lose, despite his deeply controversial remarks on FacePage and elsewhere, despite divisive rhetoric and dubious ties to Russia, despite the most qualified Republican candidate in history, he still won.

That's the most good fun I've seen with an analogue list in a long time, although I am now on a prescription that stops the screaming in my head when I see "President Sarah Palin"...

 

[Yes]

I always want do Digger or Leveller Britain but I did was put Leveller and Digger in America (Which make wounder if some put the idea of Diggerism in America TL)​

And may the Great God @Thande smile upon your pre-1900 Diggerism in America TL idea. (Or! Or! You could have William Jennings Bryan get super into their writings in a university education and start a Diggers revival....)

 

[Alienspacebats]

And may the Great God @Thande smile upon your pre-1900 Diggerism in America TL idea. (Or! Or! You could have William Jennings Bryan get super into their writings in a university education and start a Diggers revival....)

I meant Elections Game as I would make character that seek an revival of it, Never an actual TL

 

[Miss Teri]

Tons of U.S political parties? Why not? (This probably isn't that realistic)
Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (P) 1913-1917
Def. Champ Clark/Thomas Marshall (D) William Howard Taft/Nicolas M. Butler (R) Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (S)
Woodrow Wilson/Mitchell Palmer (D) 1917-1921
Def. Hiram Johnson/John M. Parker (P) Charles W. Fairbanks/Elmer Burkett (R) Eugene V. Debs/Robert Lafollette (PFD)
Frank Orren Lowden/Calvin Coolidge (R) 1921-1933
1920 Def. Victor Murdock/William Borah (P) Woodrow Wilson/Mitchell Palmer (D) Eugene V. Debs/Robert Lafollette (PFD)
1924 Def. William Borah/Ira Clifton Copley (P) Mitchell Palmer/Thomas Marshall (D) Robert Lafollette/Upton Sinclair (PFD)
1928 Def. William Borah/Whitmell P. Martin (P) William McAdoo/Albert Ritchie (American/Prohibition) Upton Sinclair/Burton K. Wheeler (PFD) Al Smith/Oscar Underwood (D)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (P) 1933-1945
1932 Def. Joseph Taylor Robinson/Alben W. Barkley (D) Albert Ritchie/Harry Byrd (American) Calvin Coolidge/Herbert Hoover (R) Upton Sinclair/Norman Thomas (PFD)
1936 Def. Albert Richie/Ellison D. Smith (American) Arthur Vandenberg/Robert A. Taft (R) Upton Sinclair/William Lemke (PFD) Huey Long/Alben W. Barkley (D)
1940 Def. Robert Taft/Wendell Willkie (R) Alben W. Barkley/Paul V. McNutt (D) Ellison D. Smith/Harry F. Byrd (American) Upton Sinclair/Henry A. Wallace (PFD)
Earl Warren/Tom Dewey (P) 1945-1949
Def. Harry Truman/Estes Kefauver (D) John W. Bricker/Harold Stassen (R) Richard Russell/Strom Thurmond (American) Henry A. Wallace/Norman Thomas (PFD)
Dwight D. Eisenhower/John Sparkman (D) 1949-1957
1948 Def. Earl Warren/Tom Dewey (P) Robert Taft/Harold Stassen (R) Richard Russell/Fielding L. Wright (American) Henry A. Wallace/Glen Taylor (PFD)
1952 Def. Harold Stassen/Douglas MacArthur (R) Strom Thurmond/Harry F. Byrd (A) Tom Dewey/Claude Pepper (P) Henry A. Wallace/Wayne Morse (PFD)
Hubert Humphrey/John F. Kennedy (P) 1957-1965
1956 Def. John Sparkman/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) Harry F. Byrd/Barry Goldwater (A) Nelson Rockefeller/Everett Dirksen (R) Wayne Morse/Robert Lafollette Jr. (PFD)
1960 Def. Stuart Symington/Adali Stevenson (D) Richard Nixon/William Stratton (R) Strom Thurmond/John S. Battle (A) Mark Hatfield/Ernest Gruening (PFD)

I'll do more later

What does PFD stand for?

 

[Turquoise Blue]

That's the most good fun I've seen with an analogue list in a long time, although I am now on a prescription that stops the screaming in my head when I see "President Sarah Palin"...

I mean, if you think about it she really works as an Obama analogue. Religious, moderate in the past, but portrayed herself as a conservative, ties to a non-contiguous state, etcetera.

 

[Gentleman Biaggi]

What does PFD stand for?

Peace, Freedom, and Democracy. It's a left-wing party that opposes war. Although Mark Hatfield's nomination was unpopular within the PFD, he was chosen as a compromise candidate

 

[Bene Tleilax]

Shuffling the Deck, One with Junkers: US Edition

William McKinley: 1897-1905
W.H. Taft: 1905-1909
Woodrow Wilson:1909-1913
Theodore Roosevelt: 1913-1919
Warren Harding: 1919-1925
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1925-1933
Calvin Coolidge: 1933
Herbert Hoover: 1933-1940

 

[Gonzo]

However, as the Alliance did not designate as a Unionist party, neither Swann nor Naomi Long could become co-First Minister.

I really really like this, though one minor point I'd like to make here is the fact that it is highly unlikely that Swann would join Alliance. He is after all on the conservative end of the UUP and would not join them. That isn't to say he'd be happy hitching up with the DUP, after all he's made a point of the fact that he did not join the DUP when it would have been politically easy and advantageous of him to do so.

 

[Yes]

Peace, Freedom, and Democracy. It's a left-wing party that opposes war. Although Mark Hatfield's nomination was unpopular within the PFD, he was chosen as a compromise candidate

Well it's not *so* unlikely the earlier you do it, other than abortion (he took after his Catholic wife and was a "seamless grament" guy: anti-death penalty, anti-abortion, generally anti-war, *very* anti-nukes and of course coruscatingly anti-Vietnam) he fit pretty well into a new Progressive party that never quite happened in the early Seventies -- McGovern would've fit too, other than his being objectively one of the two most pro-union Dem nominees of the 20th century to that point most of the rest of his politics are best understood in terms of him being the last of the Progressives. You could've had an interesting and screwy (like the Lib Dems in the U.K.) stretch of people in such a grouping all the way from Jack Javits to Ron Dellums, unified by a suspicion of large corporate organizations (from GM or IBM to certain departments of the executive branch) and of military-industrial/imperial presidency-driven wars, and a rather dignitarian rights-based approach to citizenship -- but divided on many other things.

 

[Gordian]

Well it's not *so* unlikely the earlier you do it, other than abortion (he took after his Catholic wife and was a "seamless grament" guy: anti-death penalty, anti-abortion, generally anti-war, *very* anti-nukes and of course coruscatingly anti-Vietnam) he fit pretty well into a new Progressive party that never quite happened in the early Seventies -- McGovern would've fit too, other than his being objectively one of the two most pro-union Dem nominees of the 20th century to that point most of the rest of his politics are best understood in terms of him being the last of the Progressives. You could've had an interesting and screwy (like the Lib Dems in the U.K.) stretch of people in such a grouping all the way from Jack Javits to Ron Dellums, unified by a suspicion of large corporate organizations (from GM or IBM to certain departments of the executive branch) and of military-industrial/imperial presidency-driven wars, and a rather dignitarian rights-based approach to citizenship -- but divided on many other things.

Unrelated, but didn't McGovern generally have bad relations with organized labor?

 

[Yes]

Unrelated, but didn't McGovern generally have bad relations with organized labor?

Two different things. He actually had quite good relations with some of the more democratized skilled unions and with the farm workers. George Meany of the AFL-CIO who was a real piece of work anyway (grandiose, bureaucratic, and reactionary on everything but pocketbook issues -- Walter Reuther of the UAW tried to found a rival organization in the Sixties to sandbag Meany but it came unglued when Reuther died/was likely assassinated in a plane crash.) Meany was one of the old school bosses sidelined by the McGovern-Fraser primary reforms and he hated McGovern for it with the white heat of a thousand suns. Add to that the fact HHH in the worst moment of his grand and distinguished career was so desperate for the nomination in '72 that he kneecapped McGovern's "move to the middle" in June of '72 and between them they only reinforced CREP's image-making of McGovern as a hippie-loving wimp even though McG was an eminently keen witted decorated bomber pilot who kept getting elected in conservative South Dakota because he knew farming issues back to front and treated his neighbors like, well, his neighbors and not part of some opposing tribe. The combined Nixonian/pissed-off Democratic grandees rubbishing of McGovern is one of the great disservices to historical memory of that era (and in the end despite the AFL-CIO refusing to endorse anyone and Meany offering discreet boosts to Nixon McGovern still won a solid majority of unionized workers, just not what he would've with an endorsement.) But no Democrat was especially long on chances to win that year unless Watergate lit itself on fire and ran up and down during the first five minutes of every evening news broadcast that year and it got lost in the shuffle (Nixon's ad men were so damn good his trustworthiness numbers went *up* in '72 the more that came out about Watergate) and/or Wallace (George) defied Nixon blackmailing him over tax evasion charges against George's brother Gerald and ran third party. Even then it would be tough and Hart's campaign team (save for Frank Mankiewicz) were talented but had absolutely no experience running more than primary-level campaigns and it showed in the Eagleton disaster.

So not so much a problem with unions as (1) tarred by jealous opponents as a hippie loving wimp (2) screwed by AFL-CIO leadership and (3) failed by his campaign team's and his own inexperience in the national spotlight, in a year where the external factors were pro-incumbent anyway (an unsustainable but pleasant economic boom plus winding down the war.) They brought in Larry O'Brien in the fall, JFK's campaign manager and later famously commissioner of the NBA (yes the trophy is named after him) but never let him really do his job. And Ed Muskie loyally came out to campaign for him, but refused to endorse him immediately back in June after the CA primary and turned down an ask to be Vice President on the ticket both of which would have helped greatly to staunch the rubbishing of McGovern personally. Probably neither wins him the race but he has a much more honorable place in the party's collective memory much sooner and it's more disengenuous for the Democratic right to spend thirty-plus years running away from his memory.

 

[Sasalele]

I'm pretty sure this will be the first such list in this thread.

You Were the Chosen One, Bathory!

List of Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania since the Union of Lublin (1569-present)

I send my blessing to you as both a Polish-American and a Lithuanian-American!

 

[Major Crimson]

Fear Nothing But God
Part II

High Speakers of the United Commonwealth of Albion and Ireland
1704-1732​

1704-1708 - David Leslie (Whig) [1]
def. 1704 Awnsham Churchill (Leveller), John Owen (Godly), Walter Moyle (Commonwealthmen), Richard Cromwell (Protector), Jon Straw (Diggers)
def. 1706 Richard Hampden (Diggers), Lord Oxford (Leveller), Angus North (Godly), Walter Moyle (Commonwealthmen), Richard Cromwell (Protector)

1708-1710 Richard Hampden (Digger with Leveller support) [2]
def. 1708 David Leslie (Whig), Anthony Ashely Cooper (Leveller), Walter Moyle (Commonwealthmen), Richard Cromwell (Protector), Angus North (Godly)

1710-1714 Anthony Ashley-Cooper (Leveller) [3]
def. 1710 Robert Harley (Commonwealthmen), Sydney Godolphin (Whig), Henry St John (Protector), Collective Leadership (True Diggers) Richard Hampden ("Rump" Diggers), Thomas Tennyson (Godly)
def. 1712 Robert Harley (Commonwealthmen), Henry St John (Protector), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), Sydney Godolphin (Whig), William Evans (Godly)

1714-1716 Anthony Ashley-Cooper (Leveller with Whig support) [4]
def. 1714 John Churchill (Commonwealthmen) , Collective Leadership (True Diggers), Sydney Godolphin (Whig) Henry St John (Protector), Samuel Haliday (Godly)

1716-1720 Johnathan Wilde (True Diggers) [5]
def. 1716 John Churchill (Commonwealthmen), Samuel Haliday (Godly), Anthony Ashely-Cooper (Leveller), Sydney Godolphin (Whig), Henry St John (Protector)
def. 1718 Robert Walpole (Commonwealthmen/Protector), James Pierce (Godly), Thomas Winnington (Leveller), Various (Whig) [ii]

1720-1732 Robert Walpole (Commonwealthmen/Protector) [6]​

def. 1720 Francis-Marcus Arrow (Leveller), Robert Spencer (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), James Pierce (Godly)
def. 1722 F.M. Arrow (Leveller), Robert Spencer (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), Mario Golloway (Godly)
def. 1724 F.M. Arrow (Leveller), Robert Spencer (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), Mario Golloway (Godly)
def. 1726 F.M. Arrow (Leveller), Robert Spencer (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), Mario Golloway (Godly)
def. 1728 F.M. Arrow (Leveller), Charles Wager (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), John Potter (Godly)
def. 1730 F.M. Arrow (Leveller), Charles Wager (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), John Potter (Godly)

1732-17-- F.M. Arrow (Leveller) [7]
def. 1732 Robert Wallpole (Commonwealthmen/Protector), Peter King (Whig), Collective Leadership (True Diggers), John Potter (Godly)

[1] Leslie and the Whigs were utterly reliant on the success of their sweeping economic reforms for power, being very much to the right of Albion's Overton Window. Scraping a majority of just 3 in the 1706 election, their time was clearly limited. With the only 253 Assemblymen on their side and an inescapably resurgent Diggers as well as slowly recovering Levellers, it was obvious that no Whig majority was going to occur. Early feelers were sent out to the Protectors and Commonwealth men but the former were still within the grip of Cromwell Jnr.

[2] When the election did come, it was a sweep for the "Popular" parties as the Levellers scored just below 150 and the Diggers hit 181, their highest ever total Assemblymen. The two entered into an uneasy coalition that immediately fell apart as the most radical Diggers, ever eager for a split declared themselves a separate association and formed the "True" Diggers. Hampden's tenure was one of stumbles and little else, stalled on all sides by division and discord. The remaining "Rump" Diggers would pootle on for a while before folding and being fully absorbed into the mainstream Levellers.

Following the Churchillian takeover, the Commonwealthmen's transition from radical and anarchistic to agrarian and populist was complete. Churchillian Democracy represents the trend of isolationist, rural populism alongside paternalism that defines much of the Albionic right up to the present. It is this cautious nationalism that would go on to drive the Walpole ministry.

[3] Ashley-Cooper, from minor coalition member to High Speaker scraped a majority by cannibalising the Diggers. His administration was somewhat dull and he was certainly a moderate by Leveller standards. His biggest reforms were to Ireland, where he achieved further rights (but not emancipation) for Catholics and set the stage for later reform. Under him, the Albionic government played a tertiary but important role in the War of Spanish Succession 1710-1715. Again Albion clashed with France in one of the many conflicts of the "Second Hundred Years War". Albion, the Netherlands, Prussia and Austria defeated France and Britain gained the islands of Mallorca and Menorca from Spain, thanks to the influence of the Popular Commonwealth Navy. The PCN established themselves as a Premier naval force in Europe, matched only by the Dutch, steadfast allies, and the French themselves. The alliance of Albion and the Netherlands gave them naval dominance for years to come however at home Ashley-Cooper saw his position slip. The war was costly and the damage that Anglo-Dutch trade suffered caused a minor crash that damaged the legitimacy of the government shortly before the 1714 election.

[4] More organised opposition from both left and right, as the True Diggers and Whigs both regained their footing, cost Ashely-Cooper his majority and his two-year coalition with the Whigs damaged both parties. They passed little meaningful legislation, bar some work on the Tolerance Acts and their fall in 1716 led to the collapse of the First Party System and, following a 4 year interlude,

[5] The Diggers, turning from their specific leaders of the past to a decentralised leadership gained a majority in the Commonmen Assembly in 1716 thanks to the economic crash of 1714 and the general slump in both whig and Leveller support. Wilde acted as de facto leader due to the need to appoint a singular High Speaker but nevertheless referred heavily to his Treasurer Supreme Richard Steele, War Councilman Michael McGregor and International Councilman George Manning, the later two being true commoners, young men barely in their 30s and educated by the Leveller schooling system in their teen years. Wilde and the diggers were able to achieve surprisingly wide-reaching reforms, all but neutering the High Assembly - though not able to fully dissolve it - and raised taxes greatly as well as expanding education from just Sunday Schooling to classes on Wednesday mornings and occasionally Saturdays as well. Maintaining their slim majority in 1718, the Diggers continued their progress by reforming the tax system and imposing many restrictions on the businesses that had boomed under the Whigs, instead encouraging "Guild Enterprises" (OTL Cooperatives). The Diggers seemed to have potential as a major political party, outstripping the Levellers as bastions of the left and dragging the country leftwards in general. However, Albion's crushing defeat in the 1718 War of Captain Jenkins cost her Jamacia and Guiana as well as a great deal of pride. The popularity and capacity of the Digger leadership were shattered and in 1720 they were banished to the backbenches for years to come.

[6] Walpole is one of the Titans of the era, establishing firmly the Second Party System of Commonwealth/Protectors vs Levellers, he led Albion with a cautious but firm hand. He united the disparate Commonwealthmen and Protectors by using his position as an independent to win the leadership of both parties and, whilst never able to achieve a full merger, could always inspire the loyalty of both. Increasing the size of the New Model Army, now dubbed the Popular Model Army, he ensured it was modern and elite. Developing Britain's ties with Prussia and reinforcing the Republican Sisterhood that included Albion, the Netherlands and a handful of North German States, he built a government on stability and peace. His great oratory battles with his infamous rival F.M. Arouet are the stuff of legend and, following on from Locke, Walpole and Arouet are two of the most famous political operators of the early Commonwealth. The consistency of the era, particularly with the long party leaderships of Arouet, Spencer and Walpole himself have led to the dubbing of these years as the "Quiet Peace" as Walpole made surprisingly few reforms bar tariff renovations and modifications to the Lockean system of "borrowed farmland", particularly implementing measures allowing the inheritance of land from fathers to sons, which had been an impossibility before. He also implemented one of Albion's first public works programs, expanding the portfolio of the Peace Councilman to include the construction and maintenance of paved roads across the country. His reign was only ended when the peace was as the War of Hanoverian Succession and ensuing Eight Years War dragged his government into opposition. A year after the War began in 1731, Arrow bested his old rival and entered government.

[ii] Reduced to just ten Assemblymen from their height of 269 in 1704, the Whigs fell into infighting and could not even nominate a single candidate for High Speaker. Most voted for themselves whilst a few turned to Walpole and one to James Pierce, the relatively moderate and whiggish Godly leader.

[7] The son of a French immigrant, Arrow was keen to anglicise his name from the far too foreign sounding Francis-Marie Arouet and was probably the most philosophical High Speaker since Locke, developing Lockean Levelism further. The mainstream from this point on, dubbed Lockean-Arrowvean Levelism by political scientists but usually just Levelism to most people, was even more devoted to personal liberty than ever before and caused ripples around Europe as well as major discontent in Albion itself with its legalisation of sodomy, opposition to slavery and commitment to personal wellbeing. Though certainly a controversial figure, his massive popularity at home and wartime success abroad led to...​

 

[Octosteel]

An Attempt At Reverse-American-Politics

Richard M. Nixon (Republican) 1961-1963
1960: def. John Kennedy (Democratic) and unpledged electors ("Dixiecrat")
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
Elected as Eisenhower's success, he had grand plans all unfortunately ceased by his assassination in Boston.

Henry C. Lodge, Jr. (Republican) 1963-1969
1964: def. Eugene McCarthy (Democratic) and unpledged electors ("Southern Vigilance")
"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."
The president of the "New Society" reforms shepherded by moderate and conservative advisors, yet criticised by conservatives for being weak on Vietnam.

John Kennedy (Democratic) 1969-1974
1968: def. Milton Young (Republican), John V. Lindsay (Liberal) & unpledged electors ("Southern Vigilance")
1972: def. Guy Vander Jagt (Republican)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"
No longer a young fresh face, this bitter President tried to carve a way left-wards and found obstacles. Brought down by his two obsessions - sex and power, in a scandal that shook Washington.

Carl Albert (Democratic) 1974-1977
"I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.''
The president who had to take over after Kennedy's resignation, he crafted a conciliatory path but couldn't win re-election.

Howard Baker (Republican) 1977-1981
1976: def. Carl Albert (Democratic)
"Listen more often than you speak."
The Governor of Tennessee was elected President on a platform of changing Washington, but the economy stagnated and he lost re-election to a charismatic Governor who promised real change.

Robert Redford (Democratic) 1981-1989
1980: def. Howard Baker (Republican) and Henry M. Jackson (Independent)
1984: def. Bob Dole (Republican)
"We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead. I think we're owed a big, massive apology."
The youthful Robert Redford, Governor of California, was elected President by a frustated populace fed up of the status quo. His presidency was one where the Overton Window was shifted to the left.

Birch Bayh (Democratic) 1989-1993
1988: def. George H. W. Bush (Republican)
"You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us."
Birch Bayh, the vice-president of Robert Redford, was elected more or less on Redford's popularity over the "boring" George H. W. Bush. He would go down to defeat to Bush's son only four years later.

George W. Bush (Republican) 1993-2001
1992: def. Birch Bayh (Democratic) and Lee Iacocca (Independent)
1996: def. Mario Cuomo (Democratic) and Lee Iacocca (Reform)
"I'm a uniter, not a divider."
Folksy, charismatic, inoffensive, that was the Bush people elected to the Oval Office in November 1992. And despite Democratic attacks on his reputation, he left with his head held high in January 2001.

Evan Bayh (Democratic) 2001-2009
2000: def. Christine Schneider (Republican)
2004: def. John McCain (Republican)
"In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy."
Often characterised as greatly inexperienced and "only won because of his daddy", despite his two-term stint as Governor of Indiana, he proved a strong wartime leader, even if a deeply divisive one.

Sarah Palin (Republican) 2009-2017
2008: def. Joe Lieberman (Democratic)
2012: def. Brian Schweitzer (Democratic)
"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion."
Sarah Palin's legacy still shapes the Republican Party. Combining strong religion with a moderate record and a conservative streak, she energised a whole generation of people, even if Democrats obstructed her policies.

Dennis Kucinich (Democratic) 2017-present
2016: def. Laura Bush (Republican)
"This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests."
Despite people saying he'll lose, despite his deeply controversial remarks on FacePage and elsewhere, despite divisive rhetoric and dubious ties to Russia, despite the most qualified Republican candidate in history, he still won.

This one is a lot of fun! I do think maybe somebody else could have worked better as Republican Clinton. Bush is too old money and not a newcomer like Clinton was.

 

[Gordian]

This one is a lot of fun! I do think maybe somebody else could have worked better as Republican Clinton. Bush is too old money and not a newcomer like Clinton was.

Maybe Mitt?

Frank Keating would work but he's a bit young.

 

[Octosteel]

Maybe Mitt?

Frank Keating would work but he's a bit young.

I guess part of the problem is seeing the wife as an ambitious politico otherwise someone like John Engler would be excellent.