List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[Beata Beatrix]

Roughly, though the colonial history of Rhodesia is a lot longer than the brief Moon Exploration courtesy of the Zuck.

Of course, but your use of 'Spencer House' caught my eye.

 

[Gorrister]

Of course, but your use of 'Spencer House' caught my eye.

That was actually completely unintentional, if you could believe.

 

[Premier Taylerov]

That was something special. And the level of credible detail and interest was really outstanding -- I love how richly internecine politics can get in small places.

Thanks. High praise, indeed. I think it's fascinating how a country as small as Iceland can be so rich of politics and geopolitically significant. I'm thinking of doing a series of smaller nations, as I really enjoyed that one.

 

[TPL99]

Some words on the air...

1993-1998: Bill Clinton* (D-AR) / Al Gore (D-TN) [1]
1992: George Bush (R-TX) / Dan Quayle (R-IN); Ross Perot (I-TX) / Curtis LeMay (I-CA)
1996: Bob Dole (R-KS) / Jack Kemp (R-NY); Ross Perot (RF-TX) / Pat Choate (RF-DC)
1998-1998: Al Gore (D-TN) / [vacant]
1998-2001: Al Gore (D-TN) / Tom Daschle (D-SD) [2]
2001-2009: Colin Powell (R-NY) / Tom Kean (R-NJ) [3] [4]
2000: Al Gore (D-TN) / Tom Daschle (D-SD)
2004: Jerry Brown (D-CA) / Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) [5]
2009-2013: Jesse Ventura (L-MN) / Ron Paul (L-TX) [6]
2008: Evan Bayh (D-IN) / Chris Dodd (D-CT); [7] Rick Santorum (R-PA) / Rick Perry (R-TX) [8]
2013-2017: John Kasich (R-OH) / Kay Hagan (D-NC) [9]
2012: Dick Durbin (D-IL) / Matt Blunt (R-MO); Jesse Ventura (L-MN) / Gary Johnson (L-NM)
2017-: John Kasich (R-OH) / Mitt Romney (R-MA) [10] [11]
2016: Marcy Kaptur (ID-OH) / Jeff Merkley (ID-OR); [12] Kay Hagan (D-NC) / Mark Udall (D-CO); [13] Gary Johnson (L-NM) / Austin Petersen (L-MO) [14]

[1] "I have not relations with that woman, and I'm not resigning for this"
[2] "We won the popular vote. And I have faith that Congress hears them."
[3] "My dear Americans. Today, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was killed in a military operation..."
[4] "The economy is flying, and that is fact. We need to keep America great."
[5] "I'm usually call myself as 'Demaverick', and I think that's good. California it's proof of that."
[6] "Only the freedom is the correct answer to keep us out of this goddamn crisis."
[7] "What I made to be ignored and untrusted?"
[8] "You stabbed your party to put Daschle out and himself in, Senator Bayh."
[9] "After madness, we got peace...at least. Now everybody back to work!"
[10] "Ohio have his own devils and angels, and I'm guess I'm an angel."
[11] "This terrible chess game had his end today. We've one Korea and one peace!"
[12] "We need to believe in Democracy and in our values of Progress to everyone."
[13] "I was tired of Kasich's administration and you know about this more than everyone."
[14] "And why you haven't resigned, Madam Vice President?"

 

[Accurateworldwar]

EIGHT YEARS OF CHAOS
​

45.Evan McMullin/Mike Pence (Independent/Republican) (2017-2021)[1]
2016: Evan McMullin/Mindy Finn, Donald Trump/Mike Pence, Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine

Acting: Cory Booker (2021)[2]

45. Evan McMullin/Cory Booker (Independent/Democratic) (2021-2025)[3]
2020: Evan McMullin/John Kasich, Elizabeth Warren/Cory Booker, Donald Trump/Nikki Haley

46. Cory Booker/Steve Bullock (Democratic) (2025-XXXX)
-defeated Larry Hogan/Rob Portman


[1] The 2016 election proved to be one of the most divisive in the modern era. The Republican Party nominated billionaire businessman and celebrity Donald Trump, and he selected Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. The Democrats nominated former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who chose Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate. The two nominees proved to be incredibly unpopular. Trump was dogged by his rhetoric on the campaign trail, including a vow to ban Muslims, and to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Hillary Clinton faced numerous scandals such as the e-mail controversy, Benghazi, among others. When people went to vote, neither candidate managed to make 270 electoral votes. One factor was the independent candidacy of Evan McMullin, who ran as the conservative alternative to Donald Trump. Earning a win in his home state in Utah, he was among the choices for President in the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan decided to advocate for electing McMullin as President, hoping that he would be less divisive a President than Trump could be. After much infighting among the House GOP, McMullin was selected to be the 45th President of the United States, while the running mate of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, was selected by the Senate as the next Vice President of the United States.

[2] When Evan McMullin assumed the Presidency, he vowed in his inaugural address to "heal the wounds of division" in the country, and worked to appeal to "Republicans, Democrats, and independents across the country". His first acts as President was to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and he worked with members of Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare. His Cabinet had to be filled, and he worked to appoint members of both parties. He appointed former Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England as his Defense Secretary, and James Stavridis was appointed Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Jon Huntsman Jr. was appointed Secretary of State, and Elaine Chao was chosen as Secretary of Transportation. The highest ranking Democrat in the Cabinet was Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, who was asked to retain his post for the McMullin administration. President McMullin expanded on sanctions against Russia as a result of the interference in the disastrous 2016 elections, and he encountered protests only from hardcore Trump supporters in Congress, such as Senator Jeff Sessions. President McMullin joined Vice President Pence at NATO headquarters in early February 2017, and reaffirmed America's commitment to "the mutual defense of North America and Europe against outside forces looking to destabilize our precious alliance.". He oversaw expanded operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and he increased security measures in allowing Syrian refugees into the United States. In the 2018 midterms, the Republicans retained the House, but the Democrats gained the Senate. McMullin intended not to run for re-election, however, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for 2020, claiming that McMullin "stole" the election from him. Trump fought a bitter primary battle against Vice President Pence, however, Trump narrowly gained enough delegates to secure the nomination, and he selected former Governor Nikki Haley as his running mate. As a result, McMullin announced his re-election campaign, and to avoid tensions from the 2020 GOP primaries, he chose former Governor John Kasich instead of Vice President Pence as his running mate. The Democrats nominated Senator Elizabeth Warren after another heated primary battle, and she selected Senator Cory Booker to unite the Democratic Party. With another three-way race, President McMullin retained a lead over the other candidates, however, the election was once again a draw, and once again, the decision would be made by Congress to elect the President. The Senate, having been elected to keep it's Democratic majority, selected Cory Booker as Vice President. The House, however, was divided. More conservative House members wanted Trump, the moderates wanted McMullin, and most Democrats wanted Warren. The battle in the House remained divided, and as a result, Cory Booker would be sworn in as Acting President on January 20th, 2021.

[3] Cory Booker would go on to serve as the Acting President of the United States for a full three months. Throughout February and March, the votes for the next President remained similar. Acting President Booker asked the current members of the Cabinet to retain their posts until the new President could be confirmed by the House, as a way to retain a semblance of stability. Meanwhile, he worked with members of Congress to elect Elizabeth Warren, but Republican members of Congress heavily disliked Warren, and would not be willing to vote for her. Democrats in Congress refused to vote for Donald Trump, but some were starting to become open to the idea of re-electing McMullin as President. Booker met with former President McMullin and Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Warren agreed to swing the Democratic votes to McMullin, to avoid the possibility of putting Trump in the White House or not having a proper President for four years. Warren convinced some Democrats in the House to vote for McMullin, and he was sworn in for a second term as President on April 16th, 2021. McMullin's second term was heavily divisive, as he had just been sworn into office after an election even more contentious than the last one. A former Trump supporter attempted to assassinate the President two months into his second term, and McMullin barely evaded being shot. Riots in support of Trump and/or against President McMullin persisted for most of 2021, leading to several cities declaring martial law, including Washington, D.C. itself. Vice President Booker worked to calm an angry nation, taking many tours around the country and hosting many town halls on behalf of the President. In the 2022 mid-terms, Democrats finally re-gained the House of Representatives, and with a Democratic majority in Congress, President McMullin decided to push for an amendment to abolish the Electoral College. The move was launched as a bipartisan movement, and McMullin appeared with Vice President Booker and former Vice President Mike Pence to advocate the newly proposed amendment. The amendment passed Congress overwhelmingly, with a 92:8 vote in the Senate and a 398:37 vote in the House. The amendment was officially ratified by the states in 2023, and McMullin hailed the amendment as "this administration's greatest achievement". President McMullin's second term outside of the country was comparatively uneventful. Sanctions continued on Russia, ISIS continued to be pushed to irrelevance, and in 2024, Vladimir Putin faced larger protests than ever before. In the 2024 elections, former Governor Larry Hogan secured the nomination, and selected Ohio Senator Rob Portman as his running mate. The Democrats nominated Vice President Cory Booker as their nominee, and he selected former Montana Governor Steve Bullock as his VP. The Booker/Bullock ticket won the popular vote by three million votes against the Hogan/Portman ticket, and Booker was inaugurated on January 20th, 2025.

 

[Mumby]

A Life for a Life, mk 2

1933-1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1933-1941: John Nance Garner / Alben W. Barkley (Democratic)
1936 def. William Borah / Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (Republican), Burton K. Wheeler / Floyd B. Olson (Union-Farmer-Labor)
1941-1949: Paul V. McNutt / Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic)
1940 def. Robert A. Taft / Charles L. McNary (Republican)
1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey / Harold Stassen (Republican)
1949-1953: Earl Warren / Alf Landon (Republican)
1948 def. Henry A. Wallace / Claude Pepper (Democratic), Harry F. Byrd Sr. / Richard Russell Jr. ('Southern' Democratic)

I've re-evaluated this scenario slightly.

Same POD. Roosevelt dies, while his pick for Attorney General, Thomas J. Walsh, lives. J. Edgar Hoover is dismissed from the FBI, and the FBI never grows into a 'federal police' partly because Garner thinks thats probably dangerous. Nevertheless, the New Deal is partially implemented, and to such a degree it receives roughly the same adulation and condemnation as IOTL. Meanwhile, the success of the hunt and killing of Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, on the direction of Ma Ferguson, leads Paul V. McNutt to take a similar tack in pursuing and destroying the Dillinger Gang. It takes longer, and is much more difficult, but in 1940 Garner steps down and hands over to McNutt/Ferguson who have jointly won plaudits for ordering the pursuit and destruction of America's notorious criminals.

The success of Governors essentially hiring a professional lawman to put together a posse to hunt down criminals, in a somewhat extralegal/extrajudicial fashion, in combination with the success of the New Deal and with someone like McNutt in the White House, a man not above using executive power for political patronage, is going to cause trouble down the line.

I've written a thing I may do more of set in this world: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/midwestern-melodrama.411123/

 

[ShortsBelfast]

1953-1960: Donald Box (Conservative) [10] [11]
1954: (Minority) Evan Durbin (Labour), Harold MacMillan (National), Arthur Young (Progressive), Michael Foot (Independent Labour), (Liberal), (National Liberal)
1955: (Minority) Evan Durbin (Labour), Philip Goodhart (National), Arthur Young (Progressive), Michael Foot (Independent Labour), Philip Piratin (Communist), (Liberal)
1960-1963: Sidney Dye (Labour) [12]
1960: (Minority) Donald Box (Conservative), John Cordeaux (National), Rod Harrod (Progressive), Michael Foot (Independent Labour), (Liberal)
1963-1970: John Chataway (National/Liberal/Progressive) [13] [14]
1963: (Majority Coalition) Sidney Dye (Labour), Harry Griffiths (Conservative), Henry Austen (Liberal), Austen Albu (Progressive), Michael Foot (Independent Labour)
1966: (Majority Coalition) Herbert Howell (Progressive), David Luard (Labour), Harry West (Conservative), Harold Davies (Independent Labour)
1970-1971: David Luard (Labour/Progressive) [15]
1970: (Minority Coalition) Patrick Wall (Conservative), John Chataway (National), John McCormick (Liberal), Harold Davies (Independent Labour), David Rollo (Scottish Representation)
1971-1973: John Chataway (National/Liberal) [16]
1971: (Majority Coalition) Harold Soref (Conservative), David Luard (Labour), William Wrigglesworth (Progressive), David Rollo (Scottish Representation), Hugh Scanlon (Independent Labour)
1973-1976: Harold Soref (Conservative) [17]

Really loved some of these choices, particularly the Conservatives - was "Harry West" Norn Iron's own? Patrick Wall would have been an interesting Party leader -for a right wing authoritarian he had a strong libertarian streak. Independent radio stations and CB Radio for instance. Harold Soref might have done very well in a TL with different political parameters, he was an experienced businessman and very good on matters of trade and commerce. Apparently it was only that he was so very far to the right that kept him from being given Trade and Industry or Fuel and Power OTL, he was otherwise a very likely candidate. And Frederic Bennett was another whose political views were in opposition to the age he lived in but might possibly have done rather well in a different 60s and 70s -even OTL he showed indications of potential capacity.
Is Herbert Howell, Dennis (Herbert) Howell OTL? Minister for Drought, Floods and Snow?

 

[Mumby]

Gangster's Paradise

1929-1937: Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1928 def. Al Smith / Joseph T. Robinson (Democrat)
1932 def. Al Smith / John N. Garner (Democrat)
1937-1941: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. / Frank Knox (Republican)
1936 def. Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry F. Byrd (Democrat), William Borah / Floyd B. Olsen (Progressive Republican / Farmer Labor --- Union)
1941-1941: David I. Walsh / vacant (Democrat)
1940 def. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. / Frank Knox (Republican)
1941-1945: David I. Walsh / Henry S. Breckinridge (Democrat)
1945-1949: Douglas MacArthur / Wendell Willkie (War Republican / War Democrat --- National Union)
1944 def. Sheridan Downey / William Lemke (Left Democrat / Progressive Republican --- Union), David I. Walsh / Charles A. Lindbergh (Peace Democrat / Peace Republican --- Peace Coupon)
1949-1953: Douglas McArthur / Dwight D. Eisenhower (National Republican / National Democrat --- National Union)
1948 def. Sheridan Downey / Dave Beck (American Labor)
1953-1957: Dave Beck / Max Shachtman (American Labor)
1952 def. Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard Nixon (National Democrat / National Republican --- National Union), Storm Thurmond / John Sparkman (Southern Democrat)
1956 def. Robert A. Taft / Adlai Stevenson (National Union), Strom Thurmond / Walter B. Jones (Southern Democrat)
1957-1961: Max Shachtman / vacant (American Labor)
1961-1969: Richard Nixon / John B. Connally (National Union)
1960 def. Max Shachtman / Hubert Humphrey (American Labor)
1964 def. Hubert Humphrey / A. Philip Randolph (American Labor)
1969-1973: John N. Mitchell / Curtis LeMay (National Union)
1968 def. Lyndon B. Johnson / George McGovern (American Labor)
1973-1981: Jimmy Hoffa / Ronald Reagan (American Labor)
1972 def. vacant / Curtis Le May (National Union), various faithless electors
1976 def. Nelson Rockefeller / Henry M. Jackson (National Union)

u lyk the corruption

 

[Oppo]

In this list, George Romney never makes the "brainwashing" comments and goes on to defeat Nixon for the nomination. Sirhan Sirhan decides to shoot Hubert Humphrey instead of RFK, giving Kennedy the nomination. The more liberal major party nominees make sure there is no electoral majority. Wallace keeps a firm grip on his electors/House voters, hoping that the Southern Smathers becomes Acting President. The AIP makes huge gains in the 1970 mid-terms. When Bobby Kennedy is giving his victory speech for the 1970 Senate race, a white supremacist assassinates Kennedy, leaving only Romney and Wallace in the race. The AIP makes a coalition with Southern Democrats, leaving Wallace to officially become the President. The major 1972 Democratic candidates are Eugene McCarthy, Scoop Jackson, Harold Hughes, and Congressman Mills. The Republicans have a battle between Governor Rockefeller, Senator Tower, and former Congressman Bush. Finally, the AIP nomination is a shoo-in for Wallace, until Arthur Bremer shoots the President on a state visit to Canada. Vice President Smathers is sworn in, and quickly announces a run for the Democratic nomination. The convention ends up being a near tie between Jackson and Smathers. The Washington Senator attempts to gain moderate and Southern voters by naming Georgia Governor James Carter as his running mate, but Smathers still wins the nomination. Governor Rockefeller wins the Republican nomination, picking Tower as a sign of party unity. The AIP picks California Congressman John H. Rousselot as their nominee, taking a not insignificant number of voters from Smathers. Rockefeller takes a strong lead in the polls until The New York Times publishes a story about an affair Rockefeller is having. The disgraced Governor drops out, leaving Tower to take over the ticket. The scandal causes a decline for the Republican ticket in the polls, but only one or two points away from the President. On election night, there is no majority, just like 1968. But nothing would go wrong, right? Nope. MacNamara dies in a plane crash, while a drunk Albert dies in a car crash. President Eastland! Eventually, the American people have had enough, leaving a Smathers/Evans administration after the 1974 mid-terms. With the AIP and Democrats having such a similar agenda, the two parties merge into the new Patriot Party, taking the John Bircher Republicans on for the ride. 1976 gives a victory for the new party, but things go downhill quickly, leaving the charismatic thirty-eight-year-old Delaware Governor to win in a resounding landslide. Unfortunately, he isn't in the best of health. Then, well, you'll just have to use your imagination on what happens next.

The Smathers Years: Death, Deadlock, and Deception in the Decade of Dead Dreams

1965-1968: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey (Democrat)
1964: Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (Republican)
1968: Lyndon B. Johnson/Vacant (Democrat)
1968-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson/Thomas Dodd (Democrat)
1969-1971: Vacant/George Smathers (Democrat)
1968: Robert Kennedy/George Smathers (Democrat), George Romney/George Bush (Republican), George Wallace/Happy Chandler (American Independent)
1971-1972: George Wallace/George Smathers (American Independent/Democrat)
1972: George Smathers/Vacant (Democrat)
1972-1973: George Smathers/Robert MacNamara (Democrat)
1973: Vacant/Robert MacNamara (Democrat)
1972: John Tower (replacing Nelson Rockefeller)/Daniel Evans (Republican), George Smathers/Robert MacNamara (Democrat), John H. Roussellot/George Mahoney (American Independent)
1973-1975: Vacant/James Eastland (Democrat)
1975-1977: George Smathers/Daniel Evans (Democrat/Republican)
1977-1981: George Smathers/Edwin Edwards (Patriot)
1976: William Milken/Mark Hatfield (Republican), Eugene McCarthy/Ron Dellums (Independent)
1981-1985: Joe Biden/Evan Mecham (Republican/Patriot)
1980: Joe Biden/Edward Brooke (Republican), Edwin Edwards/Evan Mecham (Patriot), Elizabeth Holtzman/Marion Berry (We Stand)
1985-1988: Joe Biden/Joe Skeen (Republican/Patriot)
1984: Joe Biden/Thomas Kean (Republican), Evan Mecham/Joe Skeen (Patriot)
1988-1989: Joe Skeen/Vacant (Patriot)
1989-1994: Evan Mecham/Joe Skeen (Patriot)
1988: Dave Treen/David Durenburger (Republican)
1992: Paul Simon/Alan Simpson (Republican)
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[Cevolian]

JE NE SAIS PAS!
In which Cevolian tries to hop on the non-Anglo PM list bandwagon
(WiP)​

1995-2007: Henri Emmanuelli (Parti Socialiste)
1995 def - Jacques Chirac (Rassemblement pour la République), Edoudard Balladur (UDF), Jeane-Marie Le Pen (Front National)
2002 def - Jean-Marie Le Pen (Front National), Edouard Balladur (RPR-UDF)
2007-2012: Serge Lepeltier (Rassemblement pour la République-Union pour la Démocratie Française)
2007 def - Henri Emmanuelli (Parti Socialiste), Jacques Delors (Nouvelle Politique!), Marine Le Pen (Front National)
2012-2017: Benoît Harmon (Parti Socialiste)
2012 def - Marine Le Pen (Front National), Serge Lepeltier (Rassemblement pour la République), Manuel Valls (Partie Centrale), Nicholas Sarkozy (Liste "droite" Indépendante)
2017-0000: Nicholas Bay (Front National)
2017 def - Emmanuel Macron (Parti Centrale), Bruno Le Maire (Union Républicaine), Benoît Harmon (Front Populaire - Parti Socialiste/Parti de Gauche/Les Verts), Serge Lepeltier (ULR)

 

[Beata Beatrix]

@Asami, I can't help but notice you forgot to threadmark my Zimbabwe list.

 

[Asami]

@Asami, I can't help but notice you forgot to threadmark my Zimbabwe list.

I was working my way backwards; trying to get them all. The threadmarks should now be completely updated. I know yours is certainly there.

 

[Beata Beatrix]

I was working my way backwards; trying to get them all. The threadmarks should now be completely updated. I know yours is certainly there.

Thank you.

 

[Asami]

An update to my eternal New-Dealpunk universe.

An Eternal Deal
FDR's America In A New And Uncertain Future​

President of the United States of America (1933 - 1993) - The Constitutional Era

1933 - 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic) [1]
def. 1932: Pres. Herbert Hoover / Vice Pres. Charles Curtis (Rep.)
def. 1936: Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas / Mr. Frank Knox (Rep.)
1939 - 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Charles L. McNary (National Union) [2]
Elected unopposed in 1940
1944 - 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Vacant (Democratic) [3]
1945 - 1953: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
def. 1944: Gen. of Armies Douglas MacArthur / Gov. Earl Warren of California (Republican)
def. 1948: Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio / Minority Leader Joseph William Martin, Jr. (Republican), Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina / ??? (Southern Democratic), Justice William O. Douglas / Frmr. Vice Pres. Henry Wallace (Anti-Roosevelt Democrats)
1953 - 1961: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Liberal) [4]
def. 1952: Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee / Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (Democratic), Frmr. Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota / Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York (Republican)
def. 1956: Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois / Rep. Richard Nixon for California (Democratic-Republican), Gov. George Bell Timmerman, Jr. of South Carolina / Gov. Thomas Bahnson Stanley of Virginia (Southern Democratic)
1961 - 1965: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. / Royce Joyner (Liberal) [5]
def. 1960: Sen. Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson / Gov. Stanley Parish of Idaho (Democratic-Republican)
1965 - 1967: Margaret Chase Smith / Luis H. Álvarez (Democratic-Republican) [6]
def. 1964: Vice Pres. Royce Joyner / Gov. Lester B. Pearson of Ontario (Liberal)
1967 - 1973: Luis H. Álvarez / Robert D. Fulton (Unionist) [7]
def. 1968: Sen. George Wilson for Newfoundland / Gov. Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Lima Federal District (Liberal); Gov. Fidel Castro of Cuba / Rep. Che Guevara for Santa Fe (Socialist Workers); Gov. Juan Domingo Perón of Buenos Aires / Sen. Artur da Costa e Silva of Rio Grande do Sul (Militant America Faction)
1973 - 1979: Ronald W. Reagan / Richard M. Nixon (Liberal-Unionist Coupon) [8]
def. 1972: Gov. Pierre Trudeau of Quebec / General Hubert H. Humphrey (Progressive Liberals); Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier of New York / Gov. John Turner of Newfoundland (Chasite Unionists); Governor-General el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz of Fredonia / Mr. John Henrik Clarke (Pan-African Organization); Mr. John David Krieger / Mr. Salvador Allende (Socialist Workers)
def. 1976: Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier / Governor Pierre Trudeau (Progressive-Unionist Coupon)
1979 - 1985: Jacqueline Bouvier / Clark Hudson (Unionist) [9]
def. Apr. 1979: Pres. Ronald W. Reagan / Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio (Liberal); Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson / Sen. Frank Reddington of Florida (Progressive Liberal); Salvador Allende / Wilbur T. Johnson (Socialist Workers)
def. 1980: Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio / Pres. Tyler Smith of ABC (Liberal); Rep. Brian Mulroney of Quebec (Conservative Unionist); Chrm. Albert Gore of the AEF / Adm. Wesley Pierce, USN (Environmental Advocation); Mr. Thomas Carrick / Ms. Patricia Friedman (Social Credit)
1985 - 1990: Brian Mulroney / Amanda Mitsuyama (Conservative Unionist-Liberal Coupon) [10]
def. 1984: VP Clark Hudson / Sen. Don Haines of Luna (Unionist); Gov. Louis Martinez of Titan / Sen. Karen Weinberg of California (Progressive Liberal); Jorge Cruz / William Hennegau (Socialist Workers); David Allison / Chauncey Warden (Social Credit)
def. 1988: Rep. Henry J. Wilson of Acidalia / Yasmin al-Qasir (Unionist); Sen. Karen Weinberg of California / Dep. Gov. Colin Wick of Io (Progressive Liberal)

President of the United States (1990-2076) - The Basic Law Presidency

1990 - 1998: Gregory Schmidt (Progressive Liberal)
def. 1990: Frmr. VP Clark Hudson (Unionist); Frmr. VP Amanda Mitsuyama (National Liberal); Sen. Larry Swindon of Texas (Conservative Unionist)
def. 1993: Gov. Maxwell Edison of Yorkshire (Unionist); Mr. David Windsor (Conservative Unionist)
1998 - 2008: Larry Swindon (Conservative Unionist)
def. 1998: Pres. Gregory Schmidt (Progressive Liberal), Frmr. Sec. of State William Grayson (National Liberal), Sen. Alexander Mack for Ontario (Unionist)
def. 2003: Gen. Tommy Holland, USSC (Pan-Liberal Coalition), Gov. Armando Cruz of Rio Grandese (Unionist)
2008 - 2010: Edmund O'Connor (Unionist)
def 2008: Pres. Larry Swindon (Conservative Unionist), Sen. Zachary Humana of Hellas (Progressive Liberal), Adm. Joe Ludlow (National Liberal)
2010 - 2018: Annette Nixon-Douglas (Unionist)
def. 2013:
2018 - 2026: Joe C. Leopold (Progressive Liberal)
def. 2018:
def. 2023:
2026 - 2028: Benyamin Ackermann (Conservative Unionist)
...
2068 - present: Martin Hayworth (FDP)


Chancellor of the United States (1990-2077)
1990 - 1993: Amanda Mitsuyama (National Liberal) - Acting
1993 - 1999: Alan Hudson (Progressive Liberal)
1999 - 2001: Bill Hamilton (National Liberal)
2001 - 2006: Charles Jameson (Unionist)
2006 - 2019: Louis Thormond (Progressive Liberal)
...
2073 - present: Christine J. Kennedy (Eco-Republican)

[1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in the height of America's worst economic depression in 1933. His first term was spent investing significant effort in revitalizing the economy, and moving America away from the isolationism that was causing damage to her international standing in the face of the growing spectres of fascism. His second term was spent in much the same way, before the alien invasions began. the Invasion Fleet landed on Earth and invaded through portals and drop-ships, ranging everywhere from Roswell, New Mexico, to Berlin, to Beijing, the Seoul, so on and so forth. Social order in the United States collapsed, and President Roosevelt mobilized for a national emergency. In 1939, after Vice President John N. Garner was killed while in Texas, FDR piloted the 'Coalition for American Freedom', inviting Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary to take office as Vice President, effective immediately. Overstepping Congress, FDR passed an Executive Order enabling him to do so. As a result, the 1940 election went on but was largely 'rubber-stamp' as FDR was re-elected unopposed.

[2] FDR's 3rd term as President was spent fighting the invasion, as the aliens advanced deep into American territory. In 1940, numerous caches of alien weaponry were captured, and the United States began to co-opt their technology for themselves. Franklin Roosevelt benefitted from some of the civilian technology gained from the alien crashes, namely, the nano-molecular constructors. FDR's health hit new heights, and he began to walk again, which rallied public morale. The President began to push for rapid armament, and signed the Concordat in July 1940, aligning the United States with that of Hitler's Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The first American 'hovership' rolled off the line in 1942, named the H-42 'Cactus Jack'.

[3] After the death of Vice President McNary in 1944, FDR returned to a single party, the Democratic Party, and nominated Harry S. Truman to the office of Vice President instead-- the Missouri politician was naive in many ways, but was a contributive effort to FDR's White House. During this term, the United States unlocked the secrets of the atomic bomb, and used it numerous times against alien invaders in the Mexican plateaus and in Africa. In 1947, America's first orbital spaceship, the USS John Nance Garner, was rolled off the line, showing how quickly technological innovation was moving against the alien threat. In 1948, President Roosevelt declared a 'global crusade against the alien menace', and was joined with Adolf Hitler, whom angrily stated that 'the time was now to wipe the sub-species off the face of the Earth'. The 1948 election saw a divided Democratic field, with the Southerners and anti-Roosevelt candidates fighting for their own votes. FDR succeeded in winning, but used this to pivot into a new political party to unite the liberals of the Republicans and Democrats.

[4] FDR's 5th and 6th terms were spent focusing entirely on the war against the alien species. During the 1950s, America and her allies set the alien invaders back by several exponential ways; leading up to the establishment of the Galactic Senate, and the launch of several 'faster than light' ships, including the USS Valour, KMS Horst Wessel, HMS Balfour, and the Niigata. During this period, the United States and her allies pushed the aliens back on all fronts, taking hundreds of planets across the galaxy, with Mars serving as the 'toughest nut to crack'. As well, during this period, several million peoples of varying ethnicity were deported from nations across the globe to far-off planetary conquests--Mexicans, Indigenous peoples, Sorbs, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Slovaks, Ukrainians, et al.--the United States definitely participated in this, giving several white supremacists passage to a new planet of their own (Confederate States) or creating black republics in the stars. FDR did not run again in 1960, deciding that with the war going so well, he could afford to retire.

[5] Henry Cabot Lodge was a one-term President by choice, rather than by popular acclaim. He did not desire to run for President on his own volition except in 1960, where he went up against Lyndon B. Johnson and Stanley Parish, both conservative Dem-Reps whom were opposed to keeping the Concordat together. They were defeated, but the Democratic-Republicans would be back in 1964, they were certain. During this period, the Race was exterminated after the homeworld was razed to ash by the SS-Galaktischen Sturmtruppen (SS-GS) which killed millions of Race citizens in a reprisal for the slaughter of entire cities of German citizens by their invading armies. The remaining fleets of the Race, and colonies, were soon wiped out by the Luftwaffe's dozen plus 'Stardestroyer' ships.

During this period, the United States Constitution was ratified to block Presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms.

[6] Margaret Chase Smith was a well-liked woman. She was sharp as a tack, and took no nonsense. During her administration, the United States admitted millions upon millions of square miles of territory to the United States, after it became painfully obvious that none of the nations of the American hemisphere would be able to survive in the new, space-faring age. By the time of her assassination by Brazilian nationalists in 1967, the United States had expanded her Terran territory from the arctic poles of Canada, to the tip of Patagonia--and with it, the political scene was becoming incredibly chaotic. Luis H. Alvarez, a Mexican political leader, succeeded her after she was shot and killed by a Brazilian nationalist in 1967.

[7] Under President Alvarez, the Democratic-Republican Party changed it's name to 'Unionist' to invoke a more unified and less 'oxymoronic' name, as well as to extend inclusiveness to the many many conservatives south of the equator. 1968 was a chaotic election, with Alvarez challenged not only by the Wilson/Terry ticket for the Liberals, but also socialist revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro; and militant anti-democratic figures such as Governor Peron and Senator Silva. Alvarez managed to emerge victorious, after presiding over the 'victory' of the war against the xenos. The war boom began to end, as Alvarez took his second term of office--it became obvious that he wouldn't win another.

During his presidency, the SCOTUS handed down the controversial Johnson v. Kwa'lun ruling which stated that the 13th Amendment did not apply to non-citizen extraterrestrial non-humanoids. This was controversial as it meant the legalization of alien slavery, which caused riots by African-Americans and others for weeks after the ruling. No amendment was ever proposed to 'amend' the 13th Amendment to fix this error.

[8] The Presidency of Ronald Reagan was an interesting one. After coming to power in the 1972 election, the United States moved to enact a more 'globalist' trend of elections, doing away with the electoral college by 1977; his presidency was focused on reform and modernization. As such, he attracted a number of splintering parties from both him and his Vice President's agenda. In 1976, he faced not only progressive opposition to Nixon, but also Chasite ideological schism from within the Unionists. His Presidency came to an end in 1979 after the Casseopeia Affair, the death of Vice President Nixon, and the subsequent 'vote of no confidence'.

[9] The ministry of Jacqueline Bouvier was a remarkable turn around from the 'interesting times' of the Reagan presidency. Jacqueline Bouvier expressed little interest in social and political reform, instead focusing on expanding the role of the welfare state in providing for the several hundred million Americans from pole to pole, and from star to star. Military and space funding were increased, and the government was very liberal in the amount of money it tossed into new age corporate consortiums intend on resource exploitation and xenoslavery in the far-off systems. She also provided significant military funding to the Free Systems in exchange for a number of trade concessions. Under her watchful eye, the Trans-Sol Warpway was constructed using light-travel nodes, and with the help of the Ford-Opel Company, managed to get 'spacecraft for the common man' as a goal for the late 20th century. Ford-Opel became the leader in American engineering where it came to civilian space-craft, only rivaled by the Honda Corporation after it's acquisition by American investors in 1983.

In 1984, President Bouvier signed into law the Haines-Wagner Act of 1984, which renewed the mandate for the National Recovery Administration another 25 years. The NRA had been a major piece of Franklin Roosevelt's administration, and by 1984, it was integrated into the American mindset as an absolute necessity for capitalism to prosper. Under the auspices of the NRA, competition and price of living had been maintained at a healthy level, with inflation and wages rising at an equal pace. There were now dozens of companies competing for market share in almost every factor, with foreign companies winning great amounts of market share as well. While domestic companies such as Ford-Opel, Chrysler, Dodge, Honda, Studebaker, Kaiser-Frasier Motors, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Packard were doing well, selling millions in cars and lightcraft every year; foreign companies such as Nissan, Mercedes, Volkswagen, BMW, Ferrari, McLaren, Jaguar, Yugo and Lada were doing well too--the cars from fascist regimes often had a hefty import fee, but were popular enough to appear in many magazines through out the 1980s. Soviet made Ladas and Yugoslavian Yugos were popular for their 'cheap construction', and 'reliability', with many American engineers assisting their communist friends in building the vehicles.

In the way of telecommunications, Bouvier's SCOTUS utilized the NRA and the Haines-Wagner Act to finally divest the Bell monopoly. Bell had been an important asset to the war, picking up many companies such as Motorola, IBM and General Electric in the process, their overmassed power lead to a crusade on Bouvier's part against them. AT&T's breakup in 1984 was a major blow to Bell, which never recovered. The remembrance of AT&T's importance in jumpstarting the information age is often forgotten, as many of the companies that AT&T absorbed, got their patents back. Motorola was restored, and became America's #1 producer of shortwave, lightwave and transgalactic radios-- IBM became remembered for leading the way in server infrastructure, partnering with Japanese consortium NSX, American companies Advanced Micron Devices, Intelligent Architecture, Microware, and Phazer to bring a new age of personal computers to the home, something that had never been done before the 1980s.

Despite her soaring popularity in the late years of her term of office, she decided not to pursue a 2nd term of office in 1984, citing that she wished to go home and enjoy the remainder of her life without the stress of Washington politics.

[10] President Mulroney transitioned the United States of America to the Basic Law system in the early 1990s, thus making the office of 'President of the United States' quite irrelevant; but primarily a 'serene executive' office...

 

[Heliogabalus]

The Grand Old Party

Basically, it also bothered me that the Republicans are called the “Grand Old Party” even though they’re fifty years younger than the Democrats, so I made a scenario where the Democrats get continuously replaced by new parties. Then, in the 1950s, unspecified “electoral reforms” balkanize party politics, while the Republicans manage to stay on as a middle-of-the-road Rockefeller party.
Many butterflies were killed in the making of this list.

1861-1865 Fmr. Rep. Abraham Lincoln / Sen. Hannibal Hamlin (Republican)
def 1860 Sen. Stephen Douglas / Fmr. Gov. Herschel V. Johnson (“Northern” Democratic), V.P. John Breckinridge / Sen. Joseph Lane (“Southern” Democratic), and Fmr. Sen. John Bell / Fmr. Sen. Edward Everett (Constitutional Union)
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
1865-1865 Pres. Abraham Lincoln / Gov. Andrew Johnson (National Union/Republican)
def 1864 Gen. George McClellan / Rep. George H. Pendleton (Democratic)
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
1865-1868 V.P. Andrew Johnson / vacant (National Union/Democratic)
“This is ‘impeachment’ business is nothing but a partisan power grab.”
1868-1869 Sen. Benjamin Wade / vacant (Republican)
“The Republican agenda may now resume.”
1869-1873 Pres. Benjamin Wade / Sen. Roscoe Conkling (Republican)
def 1868 Fmr. Rep George H. Pendleton / Fmr. Sen. Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democratic)
“Rumors of corruption in my administration have been much exaggerated.”
1873-1877 Fmr. Amb. Charles Francis Adams / Gov. Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican/Democratic)
def 1872 Pres. Benjamin Wade / V.P. Roscoe Conkling (Republican)
“The goals of Reconstruction have been met. Now is a time for national healing.”
1877-1877 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman / Sen. Oliver P. Morton (Republican)
def 1876 Pres. Charles Francis Adams / V.P. Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican)
“I was elected, and so I shall serve.”
1877-1881 Pres. William Tecumseh Sherman / vacant (Republican)
def 1880 Fmr. Sen. Lyman Trumbull / Gov. Samuel J. Tilden (Liberal)
“I refuse to accept that Reconstruction is over.”
1881-1882 Pres. William Tecumseh Sherman / Fmr. Sen. John A. Logan (Republican)
“The gridlock and corruption is unbearable… I regret ever accepting this position.”
1882-1885 V.P John A. Logan / vacant (Republican)
“The assassin was a former Confederate seeking revenge. He will be swiftly brought to justice.”
1885-1889 Gen. George Armstrong Custer / Sen. James G. Blaine (Liberal)
def 1884 Pres. John A. Logan / Sen. John Sherman (Republican)
“I shall be the greatest president that God ever put on this Earth.”
1889-1897 Fmr. SoS Robert Todd Lincoln / Sen. William B. Allison (Republican)
def 1888 Pres. George Armstrong Custer / V.P. James G. Blaine (Liberal) and Fmr. Sen. Allen G. Thurmond / Rep. James B. Weaver (Populist)
def 1892 Fmr. Pres. George Armstrong Custer / Fmr. SoS John Quincy Adams II (Liberal) and Sen. Henry M. Teller / Rep. Leonidas L. Polk (Populist)
“My father was a great man, and, like him, I seek to govern wisely and boldly.”
1897-1901 Fmr. Rep. William Jennings Bryan / Sen. Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Populist/Liberal)
def 1896 V.P. William B. Allison / Rep. Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican)
def 1900 Fmr. Rep. Thomas Brackett Reed / Sen. William Freeman Vilas (Republican)
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
1901-1905 V.P. Richard Franklin Pettigrew / vacant (Populist)
“The President died in the tragic accept, but his legacy shall live on.”
1905-1909 Sen. Mark Hanna / Rep. Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican)
def 1904 Pres. Richard Franklin Pettigrew / Sen. Francis Cockrell (Populist)
“Now that that Populist unpleasantly is over, we may focus on the real issues.”
1909-1913 Pres. Mark Hanna / SoW Elihu Root (Republican)
def 1908 Rep. Oscar Underwood / Myr. William Randolph Hearst (Populist) and Rep. Morris Sheppard / Fmr. Gov. Roger Sherman Greene (Prohibition)
“For some inexplicable reason, it is ingrained in the popular consciousness that the Republican Party is corrupt.”
1913-1921 Myr. William Randolph Heart / Rep. Champ Clark (Populist)
def 1912 V.P. Elihu Root / Sen. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) and Fmr. Rep. Morris Sheppard / Rep. Edward C. O’Rear (Prohibition)
def 1916 Gov. Harry M. Daugherty / Herbert Hoover (Republican/Prohibition)
“The businessmen and the elites shall know no reprieve under my administration.”
1921-1921 Fmr. V.P. Elihu Root / Nicholas Murray Butler (Republican)
def 1920 Pres. William Randolph Hearst / SoC Robert Owen (Populist) and Sen. Theodore Roosevelt / Sen. Hiram Johnson (Progressive)
“I am beginning to feel faint.”
1921-1925 V.P. Nicholas Murray Butler / vacant (Republican)
“America will take its place in the international community.”
1925-1929 Pres. Nicholas Murray Butler / SoS Charles Evan Hughes (Republican)
def 1924 Gov. John M. Parker / Sen. Robert La Follette Sr (Progressive), Sen. Henry Ford / Rep. James Gerard (Populist) and Helen Keller / Fmr. Rep. James H. Maurer (Socialist)
“It seems that nothing I do will please these damn progressives.”
1929-1933 Gov. Gifford Pinchot / Sen. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive/Populist)
def 1928 Fmr. Gov. Calvin Coolidge / Gov. Frank Lowden (Republican) and Rep. John Nance Garner / Sen. James A. Reed (“Independent” Populist)
“Now, we must turn our attention to… wait, what did you say about the markets?”
1933-1937 Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg / Rep. James W. Wadsworth Jr (Republican)
def 1932 Pres. Gifford Pinchot / V.P. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive)
“This depression may be more unmanageable than I thought.”
1937-1939 Sen. Huey Long / Fmr. V.P. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Progressive)
def 1936 Pres. Arthur H. Vandenberg / V.P. James W. Wadsworth Jr (Republican)
“I’m going to make President Hearst look conservative by comparison.”
1939-1941 Pres. Huey Long / vacant (Progressive)
“The bastard was aiming for me, but he got Franklin. He was a good man, damn shame.”
1941-1947 Pres. Huey Long / Rep. William Bankhead (Progressive)
def 1940 Sen. Charles L. McNary / Atty. Thomas Dewey (Republican) and Rep. Carl Vinson / Fmr. Amb. Joe Kennedy Sr. (Conservative)
def 1944 Gen. Hanford McNider / Sen. Wendell Willkie (“Democratic Unity”/Republican)
“Congress can try and impeach me all they want, but I will not be deterred from doing what’s best for the American people.”
1947-1949 V.P. William Bankhead / vacant (Progressive)
“That’s just like him. Die right before the shit hits the fan and leave me to clean up the mess.”
1949-1957 Sen. Leverett Saltonstall / Gov. Earl Warren (Republican)
def 1948 Pres. William Bankhead / Sen. Harry Truman (Progressive) and Gov. Benjamin Travis Laney / Rep. Edgar Eisenhower (Conservative)
def 1952 Sen. Estes Kefauver / Sen. Hubert Humphrey (Progressive)
“This new Constitutional amendment is one of my many responses to the instability of the last decade. It enforces a two-term limit, repeals the natural born citizen clause, and allows the replacement of a vice presidential vacancy, but its most notable section is electoral reform, which will essentially end the two-party system.”
1957-1961 V.P. Earl Warren / SoS Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
def 1956 Fmr. Sen. Joe Kennedy Sr. / Rep. Howard Buffet (National), Gov. W. Averell Harriman / Gov. Orville Freeman (Labor), and Sen. Estes Kefauver / Sen. Robert La Follette Jr. (Progressive)
“This unholy alliance between a Catholic Massachusite and the Klan will not stop me from guaranteeing civil rights."
1961-1969 Sen. Joe Kennedy Jr. / Sen. Richard Nixon (National)
def 1960 Pres. Earl Warren / V.P. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican) and Sen. Hubert Humphrey / Fmr. Gov. Adlai Stevenson (Labor)
def 1964 Gov. Nelson Rockefeller / Rep. Gerald Ford (Republican) and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson / Sen. Stuart Symington (Labor)
“The liberals and socialists have controlled our politics for far too long.”
1969-1969 V.P. Richard Nixon / vacant (National)
“That assassin had one fucked up sense of humor.”
1969-1973 Sen. Henry M. Jackson / Gov. Richard J. Hughes (Labor)
def 1968 V.P. Richard Nixon / Dir. J. Edgar Hoover (National), Gov. George Romney / Myr. John Lindsay (Republican), and Martin Luther King Jr. / Benjamin Spock (People’s)
“I don’t care if the protesters don’t like it, we’re going to fight tyranny at every turn.”
1973-1977 Sen. Robert Kennedy / Gov. John Connally (National)
def 1972 Pres. Henry M. Jackson / V.P. Richard J. Hughes (Labor), Sen. Mark Hatfield / Gov. Spiro Agnew (Republican), and Sen. Eugene McCarthy / Ralph Nader (People’s)
“There is an ongoing rumor that I am some sort of ‘secret leftist.’ I assure you that I am just as conservative as my father and brother were.”
1977-1982 Sen. Harold Stassen / Rep. Shirley Temple (Republican)
def 1976 Pres. Robert Kennedy / V.P. John Connally (National), Sen. Gaylord Nelson / Sen. Terry Sanford (Social Democratic), and Ayn Rand / John Hospers (Libertarian)
def 1980 Rep. Mo Udall / Sen. John Glenn (Social Democratic), Sen. Ted Kennedy / Fmr. Sen. Bill Brock (National), Fmr. Gov. George Wallace / Rep. Larry McDonald (“Independent” National), and Fmr. Sen. Barry Goldwater / David Koch (Libertarian)
“After all these years, I’ve finally won it.”
1982-1982 V.P. Shirley Temple / vacant (Republican)
“The president had been in poor health for some time… he died peacefully.”
1982-1989 Pres. Shirley Temple / Sen. John B. Anderson (Republican)
def 1984 Fmr. Gov. Hugh Carey / Myr. Dianne Feinstein (Social Democratic), Fmr. Sen. James L. Buckley / Sen. Bob Kasten (National), Jesse Jackson / Fmr. Gov. Jerry Brown (Rainbow), Fmr. Gov. Meldrim Thomson / Bob Richards (Constitution), and David Koch / Ed Clark (Libertarian)
“Mister Gorbachev, I demand nothing less than the dissolution of the Soviet Union.”
1989-1997 Sen. Bill Bradley / Rep. Harold Ford Sr. (Social Democratic)
def 1988 Ben Fernandez / Sen. Howard Baker (Republican), Pierre S. du Pont IV / Sen. Paul Laxalt (Law and Order), Sen. Al Gore / Sen. Sam Nunn (Center), Pat Robertson / Sen. Jesse Helms (Constitution), Jesse Jackson / Fmr. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (Rainbow), and Robert Nozick / David Nolan (Libertarian)
def 1992 Sen. H. John Heinz III / Gov. Clint Eastwood (Republican), Fmr. Sen. Paul Tsongas / Gov. Bill Clinton (Center), Gov. Gordon Humphrey / Pat Buchanan (Constitution), Fmr. Rep. Dick Cheney / Sen. Howard Baker (Law and Order), and Jesse Jackson / Rep. Ron Dellums (Rainbow)
“The hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. Social democracy is the future of America.”
1997-2001 Sen. Lowell Weicker / Gov. Lynn Martin (Republican)
def 1996 V.P. Harold Ford Sr. / Sen. Joe Biden (Social Democratic), Fmr. Sen. William L. Armstrong / Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Patriots’), Sen. Sam Nunn / Gov. Tom Carper (Center), and Fmr. Sen. Ralph Nader / Fmr. Gov. Bernard Sanders (Rainbow)
“Sometimes, you have to attack them from the left.”
2001-2001 Gov. Ann Richards / Gov. Joe Lieberman (Center)
def 2000 Pres. Lowell Weicker / V.P. Lynn Martin (Republican), Sen. Bob Kerrey / Sen. Paul Wellstone (Social Democratic), Sen. Lamar Alexander / Sen. John McCain (Patriots’), and Rep. Dan Hamburg / Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Rainbow)
“I hope promote peace and prosperity in this new millennium.”
2001-2001 V.P. Joe Lieberman / vacant (Center)
“President Richards was among those killed in the attacks… we shall bring the perpetrators to justice by any means necessary.”
2001-2005 Pres. Joe Lieberman / SoD Sam Nunn (Center)
“In this age of terror, I can think of no person more qualified to take the role of vice president than the Secretary of Defense, Sam Nunn.”
2005-2009 Pres. Joe Lieberman / Sen. John Edwards (Democratic Unity)
def 2004 Gen. Wesley Clark / Sen. Arlen Specter (Republican), Fmr. Gov. Howard Dean / Rep. John Lewis (Citizens’), Sen. Elizabeth Dole / Sen. Jon Kyl (Patriots’), and Fmr. Sen. Ron Paul / Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. (Liberty)
“This war has divided us greatly, but I seek to start a new political era, one of democratic unity.”
2009-2013 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sen. Mitt Romney (Republican)
def 2008 V.P. John Edwards / Gov. Steve Beshear (Democratic Unity), Sen. Russ Feingold / Sen. Barbara Boxer (Citizens’), Rep. Joe Scarborough / Rep. Arianna Huffington (Patriots’), and Rep. Tom Tancredo / Rep. Virgil Goode (Liberty)
“I knew I was a Republican the first time I heard George Romney speak back in sixty eight. He stood as the voice of moderation and reason between Jackson’s socialism and Nixon’s conservationism. That is the Republican Party that I represent.”
2013-2017 Sen. Mel Martinez / Fmr. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Patriots’)
def 2012 Pres. Arnold Schwarzenegger / V.P. Mitt Romney (Republican), Sen. Robert Reich / Sen. Judy Chu (Citizens’), Gov. Bev Perdue / Sen. Jim Webb (Democratic Unity), and Fmr. Rep. Andrew Schlafly / Rep. Michele Bachmann (Liberty)
“These scandals are unimportant. I will focus on governing this country according to conservative, patriotic principles.”
2017-??? Fmr. Pres. Arnold Schwarzenegger / Fmr. V.P. Mitt Romney (Republican)
def 2016 Pres. Mel Martinez / V.P. Tim Pawlenty (Patriots’), Sen. Jim Webb / Fmr. Sen. Evan Bayh (Democratic Center), Elon Musk / Rep. Zoltan Istvan (Future), Gov. Jay Inslee / Sen. Jack Reed (Citizens’), and Sen. Joe Miller / Rep. Jimmy Duncan (Liberty)
“I told you I’d be back.”

 

[Mumby]

Salami Tactics: Part I

Salami Tactics: Part II

1953-1961: Alger Hiss / Earl Browder (Democratic)
1952 def. Joe McCarthy / various (Republican)
1956 def. unopposed
1961-1969: Gus Hall / Henry Winston (Democratic)
1960 def. unopposed
1964 def. unopposed
1969-1977: John Gates / Eugene McCarthy (Progressive)
1968 def. Gus Hall / Henry Winston (Democratic)
1972 def. Milt Rosen / Jack Schulman ('Anti-Revisionist' Democratic)
1977-1985: Eugene McCarthy / Ronald Reagan (Progressive)
1976 def. John Gates / Teddy Cogswell (Democratic Labor), Robert Byrd / Lloyd Bentsen (Jackson Democratic), James Buckley / Bill Scranton (Republican)
1980 def. James Buckley / John B. Anderson (Republican), Ron Dellums / Cliff Finch (Democratic Labor), Jimmy Carter / William Proxmire (Jackson Democratic)
1985-1989: John B. Anderson / Reubin Askew (Conservative)
1984 def. Ronald Reagan / Walter Mondale (Progressive), Ron Dellums / Jimmy Hoffa (Democratic Labor)

 

[Beata Beatrix]

Россия​

TSARS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1919 - present)

1919 - 1929: HIM Nicholas III (Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov)
1929 - present: HIM Cyril I (Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov)

PRIME MINISTERS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1919 - 1939)

1917 - 1923: Alexander Kerensky (Trudovik)
1923 - 1923: Alexis Aladin (Trudovik)
1923 - 1925: Alexis Aladin (Trudovik-Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya-Narodnyy Truda coalition)
1923: Vladimir Purishkevich (Soyuz Russkogo Naroda); Pavel Milyukov (Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya); Alexander Martynov (Narodnyy Truda); Sergei Bulgakov (Khristianskaya Partiya); Grigori Sokolnikov (illegal)
1925 - 1932: Vladimir Purishkevich (SRN majority)
1925: Pavel Milyukov (K-D); Alexis Aladin (Trudovik); Alexander Martynov (NT); Sergei Bulgakov (KP); Nikolay Vasilyevich Ustryalov (Natsional'noye Respublikanskoye Dvizheniye Rodiny)
1932: Pavel Milyukov (K-D); Fyodor Dan (NT); Nikolay Vasilyevich Ustryalov (NRDR); Alexis Aladin (Trudovik)
1932 - 1934: Vladimir Purishkevich (SRN-NRDR coalition)
1934 - 1935: Andrei Shingarev (K-D minority with NT supply and confidence)
1934: Alexander Lvovich Kazembek and Mikhail Diterikhs (NRDR-SRN); Fyodor Dan (NT)
1935 - 1939: Alexander Lvovich Kazembek (NRDR-SRN majority)
1935 (February): Andrei Shingarev (K-D); Fyodor Dan (NT)
1935 (June): Andrei Shingarev (K-D); Fyodor Dan (NT)

VOZHDS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1939 - present)

1939 - present: Alexander Lvovich Kazembek (NRDR-SRN)
1939: none (NRDR-SRN sole legal party)

PARTIES

Trudovik - Labour (center-left, reformist)
Soyuz Russkogo Naroda - Union of the Russian People (rightist to far-rightist, monarchist)
Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya - Constitutional Democrats / Cadets (center-left, reformist)
Narodnyy Truda - People's Labour (left, socialist)
Khristianskaya Partiya - Christian Party (single-issue, clerical)
Natsional'noye Respublikanskoye Dvizheniye Rodiny - National Republican Motherland Front (far-right, monarchist, revanchist, fascist)

With Fanny Kaplan's assassination of Lenin in 1917, the nascent Soviets were dealt a blow that they could not recover from. Without Lenin, they quickly began infighting, allowing the way to be paved for the Provisional Government, under Alexander Kerensky, to emerge victorious. To repair relations with the more rightist groups that had helped him defeat the Soviets, Kerensky invited Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich to assume the throne as a constitutional monarch, in the British model.

Kerensky, despite his promise to continue the war effort, was ultimately unable to do so, and ultimately, Russia emerged as one of the losers following the Treaty of Versailles. Kerensky's party, the Trudoviks (Labour), moderate, pro-government socialists, were blamed for the loss. Come the first Imperial General Election, held in 1923, the Trudoviks, who, after Kerensky's resignation from the Premiership that year, so that he might have a peaceful retirement, were now led by the other leader of the Trudoviks, Alexis Aladin. The Trudoviks were unable to hold their majority in 1923, although they remained the governing party. Still, Aladin had to take the Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya (Constitutional Democrats, also known as the Cadets), and the moderate Mensehviks, who had formed Narodnyy Truda (the People's Labour Party), into coalition to preserve a majority against the rightist Soyuz Russkogo Naroda (Union of the Russian People), led by the notoriously reactionary Vladimir Purishkevich, a former leader of the Black Hundreds, who had helped to orchestrate the death of Rasputin.

By 1925, when Aladin held new elections, he knew that the Trudoviks would suffer, and suffer they did - their former coalition partners, the more moderate Cadets, surpassed them in seat count. With the Trudoviks damaged permanently, and the Cadets damaged in popular opinion because of their time in coalition with the now-unpopular Trudoviks, Purishkevich's KSR soon grew to a narrow majority in the Duma, which, although narrow, was still very much a workable one. Meanwhile, the fascistic Natsional'noye Respublikanskoye Dvizheniye Rodiny (National Republican Motherland Front), led by the charismatic Nikolay Vasilyevich Ustryalov, began to gain a few seats in the Duma. Their revanchist, anti-Semitic, and fascist politics, far in excess of even the URN, made them something for the leftist and moderate parties to fear, but they were too small to be taken seriously.

Even if he was hated by practically everyone who was not a member of the SRN, Purishkevich led Russia. He infamously met with President Leonard Wood in 1925, and the two leaders, unified by a mutual hatred of communism, formed an alliance to oppose the German communist state "in perpetuity, with the American and Russian peoples the best of friends." Meanwhile, as anti-Semitism grew in the Empire, the "Old Man," Tsar Nicholas III, died in 1929, at the age of 72. The Empire mourned, and, inasmuch as Nicholas had no children, the heir apparent was Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, who took the regnal name Cyril I. While Nicholas had been fairly apolitical, Cyril was in support of the rightist parties in the Duma.

In 1932, a brief recession turned into a great depression, and Prime Minister Purishkevich was forced to call an election. The always-narrow SRN majority was finally lost, but, at the Tsar's suggestion, Purishkevich asked Ustryalov's NRDR to form a formal coalition with his government, so that he might maintain his majority. Finding a great deal in common with the Prime Minister, Ustryalov agreed to the offer. Still, the coalition government was met with many difficulties, and Purishkevich held another election two years later. Purishkevich, wishing to retire, made a deal with the new, youthful, and extremely charismatic leader of the NRDR, Alexander Lvovich Kazembek, to enter into "permanent coalition" - in essence, the two parties would become one, with the NRDR led by Kazembek, and the SRN led by Mikhail Diterikhs, a former general who had long been Purishkevich's presumptive successor.

Pledging a Russian version of President George Dern's Great Reform, which was helping the United States recover from the depression, the Cadets, led by old warhorse Andrei Shingarev, narrowly got into government, with supply and confidence from Fyodor Dan's Narodnyy Truda. The NRDR-SRN, now led solely by Kazembek, became more and more militant, and with a brief downturn in the economy, Shingarev was forced to hold another election.

The NRDR-SRN, vocally supported by Cyril I, swept into power, with Kazembek pledging a return to the old ways of "Pravoslavie, Samoderzhavie i Narodnost" - Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Character. Kazembek held two elections in quick succession to soften up the two remaining parties in the Duma, the Cadets and Narodnyy Truda, so that the NRDR-SRN would have the necessary majority to declare all other parties illegal. In 1939, Kazembek declared himself Vozhd, or Leader, for life.

It has often been remarked that Russia has always had an autocrat to rule her, and, indeed, as blackshirts perform the Roman salute to the countless portraits of the Tsar and the Vozhd, this could not be truer.

 

[Cevolian]

JE NE SAIS PAS!

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
- Charles De Gaulle
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1995-2007: Henri Emmanuelli (Parti Socialiste)
1995 def - Jacques Chirac (Rassemblement pour la République), Edoudard Balladur (UDF), Jeane-Marie Le Pen (Front National)
2002 def - Jean-Marie Le Pen (Front National), Edouard Balladur (RPR-UDF)
2007-2012: Serge Lepeltier (Rassemblement pour la République-Union pour la Démocratie Française)
2007 def - Henri Emmanuelli (Parti Socialiste), Jacques Delors (Nouvelle Politique!), Marine Le Pen (Front National)
2012-2017: Benoît Harmon (Parti Socialiste)
2012 def - Marine Le Pen (Front National), Serge Lepeltier (RPR-UDF), Manuel Valls (Partie Centrale), Nicholas Sarkozy (Liste "droite" Indépendante)
2017-0000: Nicholas Bay (Front National)
2017 def - Emmanuel Macron (Parti Centrale), Bruno Le Maire (Union Républicaine), Benoît Harmon (Front Populaire - Parti Socialiste/Parti de Gauche/Les Verts), Serge Lepeltier (ULR)

In 1995 Henri Emmanuelli narrowly beat Jopin to be the PS candidate for President and then, by the skin of his teeth and by stoking anti European fears in France, beat Jacques Chirac to the Presidency, in part due to a large drift of voters from RPR to UDF and, to a lesser extent, the Front National. Seeking to enact an even more radical agenda than his pooualr predecessor, Emmanuelli alienated many moderates in his party - seeing this RPR nominated Balladur, despite his running for USF just seven years prior. Whilst this fusion titkcet did attract some moderate PS voters it alienated the base who, after the assassination of President Gore in 2001 and the deuctuin of the WTC, wanted a hardline anti-terrorist candidate. The Front National surged to second place, allowing the unpopular incumbent socialist candidate to secure another electoral victory.

By 2007 France seemed to be lagging behind countries with lower taxes and spending (such as McCain and Rumsfeld's US and Hague's Britain from 2005). When Emanuelli, who had ready successfully vetoed the new European Constitution, signed the "Sovereign Pledge" to hold a referendum on French EU membership, along with Front National and dissident RPR politicians in the 2007 campaign, the moderates in PS finally broke away. Former Commission President Jacques DeLors founded and ran for the new, pro-European, internationalist and centrist "New Politics!" movement, but this only split the left wing vote and allowed the centrist Serge Lepeltier to win the Presidency, running on a second RPR-UDF joint ticket. Le Pen, although relegated to fourth place, still won a considerable number of votes, consolidating the support of some of the voters he had stolen away from RPR at the last election. Lepeltier seemed to be in the perfect position - until the world economy came crashing down in 2009, and his austerity measures led to a double dip recession and the anhialation of his party in the local elections. With the left criticising him for not spending enough and tenright for not cutting enough, Lepeltier's continued candidacy, despite securing the backing of much of the centre right, led to a right wing "Independent List" splinter led by Sarkozy and another boost in support for the Front National.

Harmon had led the left wing of PS back into power, and his spending plan did take effect and allowed France's economy to grow rapidly, eventually overtaking Alan Johnson's UK and Hillary Clinton's US. Harmon, however, shocked much of his party by refusing an EU membership referendum, turning much of the French working class towards the Front National, as did a growth in support for the popular and affable Emanuel Macron, leader of the "Centre Party". Although Harmon could secure the support of the "Party of the Left" and the Greens, and although the RPR had split between the "Union of Liberals and Republicans" and the "Republican Union" Party, he bled too much support to Centre and the Front National. This, combined with the ascension of Schultz's SDP and calls for greater European integration in Europe scared many in France into voting Front National - the final round (dubbed the "Battle of the Babes" by one UK tabloid due to both Macron and Bay's perceived good looks) came down to the Front National vs Centre. This final round was the closest in French history, but an attack by "Islamic Caliphate" forces in Marseille narrowly swayed the round, allowing for the ascension of a charismatic, handsome, far right populist - Nicholas Bay became the Front National's first ever President, promising to "Faire la France grand encore!"

 

[Gonzo]

2017 def - Emmanuel Macron (Parti Centrale)

Yes.

 

[Cevolian]

Yes.

Y u no like blessed Macaroni?


Just be thankful - originally I had him winning, but decided that would be too convergent with OTL.