List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[Ulysses Orbis]

Halloween Special: The Return of the King under the Mountain

Chancellors of Germany

1933-1945 Adolf Hitler (National Socialist)
1945 Frederick Barbarossa (Independent) [1]

Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire

1945-1948 Frederick Barbarossa [1]
1948-1949 Sigurd Volsung [2]
1949-1955 Arthur Pendragon [3]
1955-1958 Koschei the Deathless [4]
1958-1962 Alexander III of Macedon [5]


Emperors of the Scythian Empire

1962-1968 Magog the Japhetite [6]
1968-1979 Lilith [7]

Consuls of the European Union
1982-1984 Napoleon I Bonaparte (House Bonaparte)[8]
1984-1985 Juan Carlos (House Bourbon)
1985-1986 Napoleon I Bonaparte (House Bonaparte)

Presidents of the United States

1945-1953 Franklin Roosevelt/Harry Truman (Democratic)[9]
1953-1962 Franklin Roosevelt/Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1962-1964 Adlai Stevenson/Vacant (Democratic) [10]
1964-1966 McGeorge Bundy/Vacant (Democratic)[11]
1966-1969 Orval Faubus/Roy Cohn (Democratic-Republican)[12]
1969-1979 Abraham Lincoln/Thurgood Marshall (National Union)[13]
1979-1985 Thurgood Marshall/Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (National Union)[14]
1985-1993 Alexander Haig/William Buckley (Conservative) [15]
1993-2001 Maxine Waters/Paul Wellstone (National Union)
2001-2005 Pat Buchanan/Don Nickles (Conservative)[16]
2005-2006 Gary Hart/Martha Coakley (National Union)
2006-2009 Martha Coakley/Evan Bayh (National Union)[17]
2009-2012 QAnon/William Boykin (Conservative) [18]
2012 Glenn Beck/Vacant (Conservative)

Emperors of Xilbalba

2012-Present Bolon Yokte [19]

Presidents of the Galactic Colonization Emergency Government

2012-present Quentin Trembley III/Mark Kelly (National Union)

[1] In the final days of Hitler's reign, the Soviet Union stood on the verge of capturing Berlin. The Thule Society, in a desperate effort to stave off German defeat, organized a necromancy ritual in which thousands were sacrificed so that the ancient German king Frederick Barbarossa would be resurrected in order to save the German war effort. Hitler himself was unwillingly executed as part of this blood ritual. Frederick Barbarossa awoke from a mountain in Thuringia along with an army of ghost soldiers, warriors from Germany's medieval past. Barbarossa's forces were supplied by the goddess Hela, and dark elves from Svartalfheim additionally supplied Barbarossa's forces. The ghost army of Barbarossa saved Berlin from Soviet occupation, and continued to march east eventually burning Moscow, killing Stalin, and dissolving the Soviet Union. Barbarossa, who was appointed Chancellor following the apparent death of Hitler, quickly declared the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire, regaining his original title as Holy Roman Emperor. Barbarossa's ghost army additionally repelled the Allies from the Western Front. Barbarossa soon united all of Europe under the Holy Roman Empire, even as his ghost army committed mass atrocities against the peoples of Europe. In 1947, the Holy Roman Empire launched a naval invasion of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Army of the Dead quickly conquered London and forced King George VI to pledge fealty to Barbarossa. As the Holy Roman Empire suppressed British resistance forces and herded British citizens into concentration camps. The United States attempted to relieve the British from the German occupation, but dark enchantments prevented the American Navy from reaching Britain. As the last remnants of the British Army were captured by the forces of the Holy Roman Empire, King Arthur awoke from his slumber in Avalon, and gathered an army of powerful warriors to repel Barbarossa's forces. At the Battle of Badon Hill, King Arthur's coalition of knights, druids, fairies, British Resistance guerrillas, and Tuatha De Danaan defeated the Holy Roman Empire's army of ghosts, skeletons, dwarves, dark elves, dark wizards, and ice giants. Arthur's forces quickly gained control over Britain, and the U.S Navy was able to reestablish supply lines to the United Kingdom.
[2] Disappointed by Barbarossa's multiple defeats at the hand of King Arthur, the Thule Society had Barbarossa executed and resurrected an even older German hero, the legendary Sigurd. The lich Sigurd was even more brutal than Barbarossa, declaring himself a god of death and assembling a skeletal army of Valkyries and Vikings from Valhalla. Sigurd sought to convert the whole of humanity into his mind controlled thralls. Allied Naval Forces helped King Arthur take Normandy, and King Arthur's forces subsequently liberated France. The United States launched atomic weapons against multiple German cities, weakening the war effort of the Holy Roman Empire. Arthur personally killed Sigurd at the Battle of Aachen Forest, bringing World War II to an end.
[3] King Arthur retained his British royal titles while assuming control over Europe. As he had briefly conquered Rome during his original reign, Arthur decided to retain the Holy Roman Empire and declare himself Holy Roman Emperor, bringing most of Europe under his personal control. Arthur additionally retained all of Britain's prewar colonies, repressing independence movements in India and Africa. Arthur's dominions were among the largest in human history. The British Empire/Holy Roman Empire formed the NATO alliance with the United States, achieving superpower status. However, Russia and Eastern Europe were beyond Arthur's dominions. The few remaining Russians had united under the rule of the necromancer Rasputin, who had made a deal with Satan to become Czar of All the Russians and to achieve victories against Barbarossa's forces. Rasputin awoke the ancient Slavic Gods, including Veles and Chernobog. In the early 1950s, there was a Cold War between NATO and Russia. Rasputin was deposed as Czar by the immortal Koschei the Deathless, whom Rasputin had recruited in order to boost the strength of Russia's armies. In 1954, Koschei the Deathless invaded the Holy Roman Empire, starting World War III.
[4] Koschei the Deathless allied with demons, wicked spirits, vampires, and Hyberborean giants in order to defeat the Holy Roman Empire. Germany was quickly occupied by Russian forces, and the Russians quickly expanded across Europe and the Middle East. The army of the Mouse King joined Koschei the Deathless to supplement his military power. The United States and Russia engaged in a limited nuclear war as King Arthur's forces were routed in Europe. Koschei the Deathless additionally intervened in the Chinese Civil War, aiding the army of Hungry Ghosts and Titans under the control of King Yama against Sun Wukong, the Chinese Emperor. King Arthur was killed by the god Tengri at the Battle of Calais, and Koschei the Deathless quickly brought Britain under his control. The United States remained in a hot war against the Russian Empire. The United States eventually made an alliance with the Amazons and the remnants of Atlantis. Elvis Presley was dispatched by the OSS to the Underworld to persuade the Gods to release a powerful warrior capable of defeating Koschei. The conqueror Alexander the Great and an army of Argonauts and adventurers was released from the Underworld, emerging in Turkey behind Russian lines. Alexander's Army of undead heroes, Griffins, and other Greek mythical creatures was joined by an army of Jinn. Arab armies organized to aid the Allies against the Russians. After reestablishing his original Empire, Alexander the Great moved north along the Black Sea, pushing back Koschei's forces. The United States deployed multiple hydrogen bombs against Russia, allowing Alexander the Great to liberate Europe. Koschei was eventually killed by the demigod Hercules.
[5] Alexander the Great additionally assumed the title of Holy Roman Emperor, uniting Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa under his personal rule. Alexander the Great declined to restore the NATO alliance, resulting in frosty relations with the United States, which opposed Alexander's centralization of the Old World's political structures under his control. The United States deployed warships with nuclear weapons along the Portuguese Coast in 1962, resulting in a nuclear war scare. The poor relations between Alexander and President Roosevelt were quickly mended when a new threat emerged.
[6] Alexander the Great had imprisoned the giant Magog and his tribe of Scythian Giants behind the Gates of Alexander in the Caucasus Mountains in 330 B.C.E. Gog and Magog had remained trapped in a pocket dimension for thousands of years, until the few surviving followers of Koschei the Deathless obtained a nuclear weapon and used it to open the Gates of Alexander in order to obtain revenge for the death of their leader. Magog's tribe of giants overwhelmed Alexander's empire, committing genocide against numerous ethnic groups. Ifrit and Jinn joined Magog's forces as much of the old world was consumed by fire and blood. Magog eventually conquered the entire world, including the United States. By 1968, however, a rebellion in North America threatened Magog's reign. Magog was assassinated by the Free Masons in 1968.
[7] The demon Lilith assumed control of the Scythian Empire following the assassination of Magog. Lilith faced numerous rebellions across the world, and the Scythian Imperial Army was forced to withdraw from North America following numerous attacks by rebels. As Scythian forces were overextended, Lilith faced defeat after defeat. Lilith eventually designed a plague which would have wiped out all of humanity. During the Battle of the Gates of Alexander, the Chinese immortal Wong Tai Sin and his apprentice Tang Lung killed Lilith as the United States Air Force deployed Rocketeers under the command of the Vision to close the Gates of Alexander.

[8] Napoleon Bonaparte was resurrected by the United Nations when a shape shifting alien assimilated all life in Antarctica and threatened to assimilate all life on Earth. Allied forces under Bonaparte were able to defeat the alien invaders, but Bonaparte quickly declared himself Consul of what remained of Europe. Bonaparte launched an invasion of the United States but was defeated and forced into exile at the Elba Lunar Colony. Bonaparte returned to Europe and briefly deposed the Bourbon monarchy before being again overthrown by the United Nations.

[9] Despite being declared clinically dead in 1945, Roosevelt's life was artificially extended by means of hypnosis. While Roosevelt remained bed ridden and comatose, he continued to give military orders by means of telepathic communication. Roosevelt ordered that nuclear weapons be deployed against the Shinto sun god Amaterasu, who was summoned by the Japanese in 1945. Roosevelt's condition was not known to the public, and his seclusion was explained as being necessary for national security purposes. Actors were hired to impersonate Roosevelt's voice on the radio. Roosevelt was re-elected to several more terms as continuity in government was deemed necessary in the face of multiple supernatural threats. Military officials and New Deal technocrats ran the United States government as Roosevelt's mental state declined. The United States recruited superheroes and wizards as it invested in advanced military technology to defeat the undead hordes of Barbarossa and Koschei. Roosevelt's administration suppressed multiple zombie outbreaks and exterminated vampire sleeper agents of Koschei. Roosevelt's administration proved ill equipped to face the Scythian Empire, particularly when Magog launched multiple surprise attacks against the United States in 1962. Roosevelt was finally killed when the ice giant Ymir attacked his compound in Warm Springs, Georgia.

[10] Following the death of President Roosevelt, Vice President Adlai Stevenson was left in charge of the war effort against Magog. While the United States had developed effective anti-necromantic technology, the U.S military was ill prepared to face Magog's army of giants. Magog's forces eventually invaded the mainland United States. While President Stevenson had Washington D.C evacuated in anticipation of an attack by the Scythians, Magog's Ifrit nevertheless uncovered the location of Stevenson's secret bunker and assassinated him and much of his administration in 1964.

[11] After the death of President Stevenson, Secretary of War McGeorge Bundy was the highest ranking survivor in the line of succession. Despite Bundy's efforts to maintain a cohesive American government, Scythian occupation forces seized control over much of the United States, and the U.S military collapsed. By the time Bundy was apprehended by the Scythians in 1966, his authority as President was largely nominal. Bundy was personally executed by General Micromegas, viceroy of the Governmental Transition Authority.

[12] Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, was a quisling collaborator appointed the new President by the Scythians in order to maintain the facade of democratic legitimacy. He founded a new political party, the Democratic-Republican Party, which consisted of both former Democrats and Republicans. Supposedly, the Democratic-Republican Party was a bipartisan creation intended to help transition America into an era of peace and prosperity. In practice, the Democratic-Republican Party consisted of far-right reactionaries who intended to use the Scythian occupation as an excuse to purge their political rivals. The Democratic-Republican Party was a coalition of segregationists, fascists, and anti-communist conspiracy theorists. While the human government was by it's nature subordinate to the Giants, Faubus himself was mind controlled by his Vice President, the dark wizard Roy Cohn. The administration of Orval Faubus was eventually deposed by the rebel group Grand Army of the Republic.

[13] The spirit of Abraham Lincoln was risen when the Scythians captured Washington D.C, causing Lincoln to resurrect in order to defend the United States from invasion. The undead Lincoln, now possessing supernatural strength, united a disparate group of left-wing insurgents and U.S military officials into the Grand Army of the Republic. The ghosts of various American veterans joined Lincoln in his war against the Scythians. Mass protests eventually overthrew the government of Orval Faubus, and Lincoln personally killed Micromegas and other giants in wrestling matches. Lincoln then reassembled the United States military and opened hidden weapons vaults which provided ammunition against the Scythians. The
United States under Lincoln eventually invaded Europe and defeated the Scythians. Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the death of Lilith by the demonically resurrected John Wilkes Booth.

[14] Thurgood Marshall helped repel the alien invasion of Antarctica and led the coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte.

[15] The "Haig Revolution" dramatically reshaped American public policy in a more conservative direction. Following the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, Haig declared a "Return to Normalcy" under which supernatural threats largely disappeared. The Haig administration arrested supernatural beings in masse and sought to destroy all supernatural elements not under the direct control of the United States government. The Haig administration first deployed Power Rangers to oppose monster attacks on California.

[16] Pat Buchanan defeated Vice President Wellstone in the 2000 presidential election despite losing the popular vote. An anti-immigrant far-right paleo-conservative, Buchanan was the beneficiary of a shift to the right in the Conservative Party. The Waters administration induced much racial panic and concerns about communism. Vice President Wellstone was deemed by many members of the Conservative Party to be the leader of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy, which Buchanan implied but did not explicitly state. Buchanan's administration was racist and corrupt, and Buchanan frequently flaunted the rule of law while issuing demagogic statements on TV. Under Buchanan, the Hidden Imam returned and was appointed Ayatollah of Iran. Buchanan was defeated by Gary Hart in the 2004 presidential election, but refused to cede power, claiming the Democrats had rigged the election with the aide of demonic forces.

[17] Gary Hart was killed when Mothmen launched an attack on Washington D.C. Martha Coakley, Hart's successor, quickly became enormously unpopular. Lacking in charisma, Coakley became the target of public ire and suffered from low approval ratings. Following the stock market crash of 2007, American entered a depression which was blamed on Coakley's poor economic management. Conspiracy theories around Coakley gained popularity, and Coakley lost re-election.

[18] The anonymous web personality known as Q became popular in the Conservative Party by articulating a conspiracy theory in which the Coakley administration was the arm of a global conspiracy of Satanic Illuminati- Q claimed these Satanists secretly controlled all the world's governments. Q further accused Coakley of satanism and cannibalism, and claimed to possess insider information about the Satanic conspiracy. In fact, QAnon was the Antichrist, and upon assuming power mandated that all Americans receive his Triple Q Tattoo- the symbol of his followers, the Mark of the Beast. The global economy continued to crater as Q converted the United States into a totalitarian regime. Numerous natural disasters and catastrophes occurred under the Q administration as the Mayan apocalypse approached. Much of the Q administration was killed by a sudden earthquake, after which Q's hologram disappeared. Glenn Beck, a member of Q's administration, became President but failed to defeat Bolon Yokte's Army of the Dead.

[19] The United Nations rendered impotent following President Q withdrawing the United States from the organization, the efforts to defeat Bolon Yokte, the ruler of the Mayan underworld, proved scattered and uncoordinated. In 2012, Bolon Yokte left the Underworld and invaded Mexico, and soon conquered the whole planet, leading an army of the dead. Bolon Yokte sunk entire continents and wiped out all life on Earth. The former American President, Quentin Trembley III, was awaken from stasis in 2012 and was appointed leader of a fleet of colony ships headed into deep space. These colony ships hold all remaining human life- the colonists are being held in suspended animation as the Galactic Colonization Emergency Government searches the universe for a planet suitable to human life.

 

[Wendell]

The Biggest Tent: Three Republicans in twenty years.....

Presidents of the United States, 1969-present:
Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Republican) 1969-1971
Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican) 1971-1979
Ronald W. Reagan (Republican) 1979-1989
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. (Democratic) 1989-1997
James Charles Evers (Republican) 1997-2005
Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt (Democratic) 2005-2013
Jon M. Huntsman Jr. (Republican) 2013-2021

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Unintended Consequences (or How the Business Plot Accidentally Pushed America Further Left)
Franklin D. Roosevelt/John Nance Garner 1933-1936 (Overthrown)
1932: Def. Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis
Douglas MacArthur/Prescott Bush 1936-1942 (Overthrown)
1936: Election suspended
1940: Election suspended
Dwight D. Eisenhower/Henry Wallace 1942-1945
Henry Wallace/Huey Long 1945-1957
1944: Def. Wendell Wilkie/Harold Stassen, Robert Taft/John W. Bricker, Theodore Bilbo/Pappy O'Daniel
1948: Def. Harold Stassen/Adlai Stevenson, Robert Taft/John W. Bricker, Harry F. Byrd/Fielding L. Wright
1952: Def. Earl Warren/Thomas Dewey, Howard Buffett/Walt Disney, Strom Thurmond/John Rarick
Nelson Rockefeller/John F. Kennedy 1957-1965
1956: Def. Huey Long/Hubert Humphrey, Joe McCarthy/Orval Faubus
1960: Def. Hubert Humphrey/Glen H. Taylor, Barry Goldwater/HR Gross, John Stennis/J. William Fulbright
Elliott Roosevelt/George McGovern 1965-1973
1964: Def. John F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon, Harland Sanders/James Rhodes, George Wallace/Happy Chandler
1968: Def. John Lindsey/Charles Percy, John Wayne/Milton Friedman, George Wallace/Lester Maddox
George W. Romney/Henry 'Scoop' Jackson 1973-1977
1972: Def. George McGovern/Mike Gravel, Milton Friedman/Bob Dole, George Smathers/Jerry Falwell
Mike Gravel/Lyndon LaRouche 1977-1981
1976: Def. James Buckley/Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Romney/Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, Jesse Helms/Sam Yorty
Jack Kemp/Shirley Temple Black 1981-1989
1980: Def. Mike Gravel/Lyndon LaRouche, Henry 'Scoop' Jackson/Roy Cohn, John Rarick/Evan Mechem
1984: Def. Jerry Brown/Jesse Jackson, Edward Brooke/Gerald Ford, Evan Mechem/Larry MacDonald, Lyndon LaRouche/Gus Hall
Lee Iacocca/Jim Jeffords 1989-1993
1988: Def. Martin Luther King, Jr./Eugene McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, Jr./Ron Paul, Pat Robertson/Trent Lott
Paul Wellstone/David Duke 1993-1995 (Assassinated)
1992: Def. Paul Wellstone/Dick Lamm, Lee Iacocca/Jim Jeffords, Bill Weld/Bob Barr, Trent Lott/David Duke
David Duke/vacant 1995-1997
Paul Tsongas/Lincoln Chafee 1997-2001
1996: Def. Dick Lamm/John Lewis, Tonie Nathan/Connie Mack IV, David Duke/Jim Traficant
Bernie Sanders/Bill Bradley 2001-2005
2000: Def. Paul Tsongas/Lincoln Chafee, Clint Eastwood/Jeff Flake, Jim Traficant/Pat Buchanan
Dana Rohrabacher/Gary Johnson 2005-2013
2004: Def. Gary Locke/Norm Coleman, Bernie Sanders/Bill Bradley, David Duke/Steve Bannon
2008: Def. Michael Bloomberg/Colin Powell, Dean Barkley/Jaime Raskin, Todd Palin/Mike Huckabee
Charlie Crist/Richard Tisei 2013-2017
Charlie Crist/John Eder 2017-
2012: Def. Barbara Lee/Bill Maher, Gary Johnson/Jon Huntsman, Mike Huckabee/Tom Tancredo
2016: Def. Charlie Crist/Richard Tisei, Elizabeth Warren/John Eder, Rick Scott/Mark Sanford, Matt Bevin/Roy Moore

Red-Democratic Party
Blue-Republican Party
Gray-Independent/Nonpartisan
Dark blue-New National Union
Maroon-Progressive People’s Party
Green-Liberal Republican Party
Purple-Freedom Party
Orange-States’ Rights Democratic Party

 

[MrVulcan]

Here's the presidents in @HeX's amazing timeline, "A More Perfect Union".

1. George Washington (1789 - 1797) (I-Virginia)
2. John Adams (1797 - 1801) (F-Massachusetts)
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809) (D-Virginia)
4. Alexander Hamilton (1809 - 1817) (F-New York)
5. James Madison (1817 - 1825) (D-Virginia)
6. Andrew Jackson (1825 - 1833) (D/F-South Carolina)
7. Daniel Webster (1833 - 1837) (F-Massachusetts)
8. John C. Calhoun (1837 - 1845) (D-South Carolina)
9. Henry Clay (1845 - 1853) (F-Kentucky)
10. William Cabell Rives (1853 - 1857) (D-Virginia)
11. Roger B. Taney (1857 - 1861) (D-Maryland)
12. Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1869) (F-Illinois)
13. Ulysses S. Grant (1869 - 1877) (F-Ohio)
14. Frederick Douglass (1877 - 1881) (F-Maryland)
15. Victoria Woodhull (1881 - 1889) (F-Ohio)
16. James B. Weaver (1889 - 1893) (P-Iowa)
17. John Creswell (1893 - 1897) (F-Maryland)
18. William Jennings Bryan (1897 - 1905) (P-Nebraska)
19. Arthur P. Gorman (1905 - 1909) (P-Maryland)
20. Thomas E. Watson (1909 - 1913) (P-Georgia)
21. Theodore Roosevelt (1913 - present) (F-New York)

I = Independent
F = Federalist
D = Democratic-Republican
P = Populist

I can't do colors. I'm sorry.

 

[redjirachi]

They Live: A Kingfish-Sized Spoiler

Huey lives and messes with the election. BTW, this is the only way I can see Landon beat FDR

32(first term): Franklin D Roosevelt/John Nance Garner(March 4 1933-January 20 1937)
-Election of 1936: Franklin D Roosevelt/John Nance Garner(Democrat) vs Huey Long/Joseph P Kennedy Sr(Union Democrat) vs Alf Landon/Frank Knox(Republican)[1]
33(first term): Alf Landon/Frank Knox(January 20 1937-January 20 1941)[2]
-Election of 1940: Alf Landon/Frank Knox(Republican) vs Millard Tydings/Alben W Barkley(Democrat)
33(second term): Alf Landon(January 20 1941-January 20 1945)/Frank Knox*(January 20 1941-April 28 1944)[3]
-Election of 1944: Earl Warren/Harold Stassen(Republican) vs George Marshall/Harry S Truman(Democrat)[4]
34(first term): George Marshall/Harry S Truman(January 20 1945-January 20 1949)
-Election of 1948: George Marshall/Harry S Truman(Democrat) vs Thomas Dewey/Arthur Vandenberg(Republican)
34(second term): George Marshall/Harry S Truman(January 20 1949-January 20 1953)
-Election of 1952: Dwight D Eisenhower/James Roosevelt(Democrat) vs Douglas MacArthur/Richard Nixon(Republican)
35(first term): Dwight D Eisenhower/James Roosevelt(January 20 1953-January 20 1957)
-Election of 1956: Dwight D Eisenhower/James Roosevelt(Democrat) vs Earl Warren/Harold Stassen(Republican)
35(second term): Dwight D Eisenhower/James Roosevelt(January 20 1957-January 20 1961)
-Election of 1960: James Roosevelt/George Smathers(Democrat) vs Nelson Rockefeller/George H Bender(Republican)
36(first term): Nelson Rockefeller(January 20 1961-January 20 1965)/George H Bender*(January 20 1961-June 18 1961)
-Election of 1964: Nelson Rockefeller/Walter Cronkite(Republican) vs Joseph P Kennedy Jr/George Wallace(Democrat)
36(second term): Nelson Rockefeller**/Walter Cronkite(January 20 1965-May 30 1965)
37(first term): Walter Cronkite(May 30 1965-January 20 1969)/Spiro Agnew(July 13 1967-January 20 1969)
-Election of 1968: Walter Cronkite/Claude R Kirk Jr(Republican) vs Lyndon B Johnson/George McGovern(Democrat)
37(second term): Walter Cronkite/Claude R Kirk Jr(January 20 1969-January 20 1973)

[1]Huey avoids being shot thanks to the timely intervention of his bodyguards. He ends up pulling a T.R-high in the primaries, and when he doesn't steal it from FDR. And this allows Landon to win. The Democrats are enraged by Long for this
[2]The more moderate Landon poses a more moderate New Deal. While he sees much of the improvement of FDR, he isn't as charismatic and decried as a thief by the Democrats. Of course, they would say that. It seems that Landon is destined for another landslide. However division in the party leads to not being able to decide a good candidate, instead a compromise, leading to a narrow upset victory for Landon
[3]Landon is the man in charge during the second world war. As such, there is speculation of him running a third term. However, Landon refuses, cognizant of how he got in office and wanting to avoid any "dictator" criticisms. Landon is well-remembered, and presuming he lives to 100 as IOTL it means he has the longest retirement of any president
[4]Yup, Marshall. Here he's a powerful and important Cold War figure. The Dems luck out by having Eisenhower be on their ticket, who narrowly defeats MacArthur. Smooth sailing for 16 years! Though the Reps eventually make their gains back. Nelson Rockefeller's president, though by his second term he's hurt by a sex scandal. Tragically, he becomes the fourth president to be assassinated. His VP ends up having two terms. Thought I might consider a different career path for the guy

Abridged list

• 31: Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis(1929-1933)
• 32: Franklin D Roosevelt/John Nance Garner(1933-1937)
• 33: Alf Landon(1937-1945)/Frank Knox*(1937-1944)
• 34: George R Marshall/Harry S Truman(1945-1953)
• 35: Dwight D Eisenhower/James Roosevelt(1953-1961)
• 36: Nelson Rockefeller**(1961-1965)/George H Bender*(1961), Walter Cronkite(1965)
• 37: Walter Cronkite(1965-1973)/Spiro Agnew(1967-1969), Claude R Kirk Jr(1969-1973)

 

[Hydrons (Retired Account)]

Parallel in 1960

Richard Nixon wins the election of 1960, and it all becomes one big parallel universe scenario.

35. Richard Nixon*/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican) 1961-1963
36. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1963-1969)/Thomas Kuchel (1965-1969)
37. John F. Kennedy**/Terry Sanford (Democratic) 1969-1974
38. Terry Sanford/Stuart Symington (Democratic) 1974-1977
39. Bob Dole/Robert P. Griffin (Republican)
40. Robert Redford/Mo Udall (Democratic) 1981-1989
41. Mo Udall/Michael Dukakis (Democratic) 1989-1993
42. Lamar Alexander/George Wallace Jr. (Republican) 1993-2001
43. Mark Udall/Joe Lieberman (Democratic) 2001-2009
44. Bobby Jindal/John McCain (Republican) 2009-2017

*: Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
**: Resigned due to health issues and a sex scandal

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Parallel in 1960

Richard Nixon wins the election of 1960, and it all becomes one big parallel universe scenario.

35. Richard Nixon*/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican) 1961-1963
36. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1963-1969)/Thomas Kuchel (1965-1969)
37. John F. Kennedy**/Terry Sanford (Democratic) 1969-1974
38. Terry Sanford/Stuart Symington (Democratic) 1974-1977
39. Bob Dole/Robert P. Griffin (Republican)
40. Robert Redford/Mo Udall (Democratic) 1981-1989
41. Mo Udall/Michael Dukakis (Democratic) 1989-1993
42. Lamar Alexander/George Wallace Jr. (Republican) 1993-2001
43. Mark Udall/Joe Lieberman (Democratic) 2001-2009
44. Bobby Jindal/John McCain (Republican) 2009-2017

*: Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
**: Resigned due to health issues and a sex scandal

The best punchline for this list would be Democrat Donald Trump with VP Russ Feingold

 

[redjirachi]

**: Resigned due to health issues and a sex scandal

How that was covered up until after his death, I'll never know. The volume alone...

 

[Hydrons (Retired Account)]

The best punchline for this list would be Democrat Donald Trump with VP Russ Feingold

I was initially going to do something very similar to that but I didn't want to ignite a firestorm (please don't ban us Calbear)

 

[Ventriloquist]

So a few days ago there was a thread asking WI Eleanor Roosevelt had been assassinated by the KKK in 1958. Given that everyone in Congress would be raked over the coals for their ties to the KKK and Nixon would have a fair bit of ammo to use against Kennedy in 1960, here's one scenario:

The Democrats' Wirtschaftswunder

1961-1969: Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA)
1969-1977: Ronald Reagan (D-CA)/John Connally (D-TX)
1977-1981: John Connally (D-TX)/Henry M. Jackson (D-WA)
1981-1981: George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/John Lindsay (R-NY)
1981-1989: John Lindsay (R-NY)/Bob Dole (R-KS)
1989-1997: Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Joe Biden (D-DE)
1997-2005: Lowell Weicker (R-CT)/George W. Bush (R-TX)
2005-2013: Sherrod Brown (D-OH)/Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
2013-2017: Barack Obama (D-IL)/Hillary Rodham (D-NY)
2017-present: Bernie Sanders (S-VT)/Nina Turner (S-OH)

So Nixon just beats Kennedy in 1960. Domestically, he approves a lot of socially liberal legislation that sees the KKK (and other white supremacist organisations of that nature) wiped off the map, and while the South is still incredibly racist, the liberal coalition in Congress pushes through a history curriculum which intends to make all US students aware of America's racist past. The 1964 DNC is a fucking mess ITTL, because the Southern delegates can't agree on a candidate that (a) won't piss off racist Southerners (b) won't piss off Northerners, but they know that they can't let the fucking Yankees pick another Kennedy. In the middle of it all, Ronald Reagan makes a speech about how they need to come together as Christian democrats, but nobody pays him much heed at the time. In the end they settle for Stuart Symington, but nobody likes Stuart Symington. The result is inevitable, and the top Democratic brass collectively thinks: maybe Reagan had a point there.

In 1968, Reagan runs on a platform not too dissimilar to that of the CDU in Germany. Ordoliberalism, social market economics, Christianity, social conservatism, industrial capitalism marrying the Northern industrialists and the Southern agrarians, competition over products, a strong state enforcing that, and after the turbulent Nixon administration and the unrest around the world that year? It works. Reagan wins in a landslide, and he oversees the collapse of Bretton Woods and the gradual replacement of a Keynesian economic regime with a social market model. The Reagan administration is extremely popular, and while Connally wins in 1976, he's unseated in 1980 by a recession and unpopular austerity measures.

While in office, the GOP doesn't do much to change the economic status quo. Hinckley doesn't miss ITTL, so Bush dies within a year, and Lindsay becomes incredibly popular as the economy improves. The GOP implements more socially liberal legislation, and they broadly keep the ordoliberal consensus in place. The neocons ITTL move to the Democrats after Scoop Jackson's election as Vice President and the evangelicals stay Democrat, whereas the GOP represents business interests and secular social liberals. Ultimately, both parties are happy with how the state functions ITTL, and crucially, neither are full of extreme neoliberals.

Georgia senator Jimmy Carter wins in 1988 due to Lindsay's foreign policy failures. His term is mainly focused on foreign policy, specifically seeing out the end of the Soviet Union and the start of conflicts in the Middle East, and he's successfully reelected in 1992. Civil unrest over the Defense of Marriage Act 1996 hands the presidency over to the GOP, which they keep until a terrorist attack in 2001, equal in weight to 9/11 IOTL, discredits the GOP and allows the Democrats to capture the White House in 2004.

Now, you've butterflied away the global financial crisis as we know it. Strong emphasis on 'as we know it', because the Eurozone (or its equivalent ITTL) is absolutely going to shit itself after the US real estate market collapses. This will threaten structural ordoliberalism in the US, as industrial capitalism gradually declines and austerity becomes structural, but from 2004 until 2016 the Democrats have a stranglehold on the Presidency. The GOP, meanwhile, is left floundering, as they don't have an alternative to austerity, and liberal Republicans lose power to increasingly populist neoconservative Democrats. Barack Obama beats Vice President Lieberman in the 2012 primary, promising change, but after his election it quickly becomes clear to the American electorate that Obama's another neocon representing the billionaire class.

At this point, it's worth mentioning that there's a small party who everyone had written off before Brown's ascendance. They earned 5% of the vote in 2004; by 2008, it was up to 15%; by 2012, it was up to 30% of Americans. They were once called the Democratic Socialists of America, but by 2012 they'd renamed it to the Socialist Party of America, and they were offering social democracy as an alternative to austerity. When it became clear that Obama wouldn't do anything to help the American working class, their perennial candidate, a longtime Vermont senator named Bernie Sanders, was elected in a landslide in 2016. Despite a lingering heart problem, Sanders is incredibly popular, and he's expected to retain the Presidency next year.

e: Forgot to mention: the electoral college was abolished during Lindsay's presidency.

 

[GanMil]

Harry Truman (Democratic) 1945-1949
Thomas Dewey (Republican) 1949-1953
1948: def. Harry Truman (Democratic), Strom Thurmond (States’ Rights) and Henry A. Wallace (Progressive)
Estes Kefauver (Democratic) 1953-1957
1952: def. Thomas Dewey (Republican), Happy Chandler (States’ Rights) and Glen H. Taylor (Progressive)
Harold Stassen (Republican) 1957-1961
1956: def. Estes Kefauver (Democratic), Orval Faubus (States’ Rights) and Wayne Morse (Progressive)
Margaret Chase Smith (Republican, then National Union) 1961-1969
1960: def. Harold Stassen (Republican), Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic), Bourke Hickenlooper (States’ Rights) and Wayne Morse (Progressive)
1964: def. Barry Goldwater (States’ Rights/Republican), Pat Brown (Democratic) and Gore Vidal (Progressive)
Mo Udall (Democratic/Progressive, then Democratic/Progressive/National Union) 1969-1977
1968: def. Curtis LeMay (States’ Rights), George Romney (Republican/National Union) and Billy Graham (Independent)
1972: Mark Hatfield (Republican) and Lester Maddox (States’ Rights)
Spiro Agnew (Republican/States’ Rights) 1977-1983*
1976: def. Henry M. Jackson (Democratic/National Union) and Shirley Chisholm (Progressive)
1980: def. John B. Anderson (National Union/Democratic/Progressive)
Evan Mecham (States’ Rights) 1983-1984*
Gerald Ford (National Union) 1984-1985
Adlai Stevenson III (Democratic/National Union/Republican) 1985-1993
1984: def. John Tower (States’ Rights) and Noam Chomsky (Progressive)
1988: def. Geraldine Ferraro (Progressive) and Pat Robertson (States’ Rights)
Howard Baker (Republican/National Union) 1993-2001
1992: def. Jerry Brown (Democratic/Progressive) and Ron Paul (States’ Rights)
1996: def. Jerry Brown (Democratic), Ron Paul (States’ Rights) and Lenora Fulani (Progressive)
John McCain (National Union/Republican, then National Union/Republican/Democratic/Progressive/States’ Rights) 2001-2009
2000: def. Ralph Nader (Progressive/Democratic) and Pat Buchanan (State’s Rights)
2004: def. Lyndon LaRouche (Independent)
Mike Huckabee (States’ Rights) 2009-2015*
2008: def. Evan Bayh (Democratic/Progressive) and Arlen Specter (Republican/National Union)
2012: def. Arlen Specter (National Union/Democratic/Republican/Progressive)
Susan Collins (National Union) 2015-2017
Elizabeth Warren (Progressive) 2017-present
2016: def. Hillary Rodham (Democratic/National Union), John Kasich (Republican) and Ted Cruz (States’ Rights)

 

[Comrade Izaac]

The Democrats' Wirtschaftswunder

The Superior Timeline

 

[Luke_Starkiller]

The Democrats' Wirtschaftswunder

Behold, it's shitty younger brother- "The Republican Party Presents: The American Asian Tiger" (or basically today, but worse)

1961-1964: Vice President Richard M. Nixon / Sec. of Labor James P. Mitchell (Republican)
def. 1960: John F. Kennedy / Stuart Symington (Democratic); Harry F. Byrd, Jr. / Strom Thurmond (States' Rights Democratic)
1964-1965: President Richard M. Nixon / vacant (Republican)
1965-1969: President Richard M. Nixon / Sec. of Health, Education, and Welfare Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
def. 1964: Lyndon B. Johnson / Thomas J. Dodd (Democratic)

1969-1972: Fmr. Gov. Terry Sanford / Rep. Wilbur Cohen (Democratic)
def. 1968: Nelson Rockefeller / Thruston Morton (Republican)
1972-1973: Vice President Wilbur Cohen / vacant (Democratic)
1973-1976: President Wilbur Cohen / Senator Mike Gravel (Democratic)
def. 1972: Spiro Agnew / Howard Baker (Republican)
1976-1977: Vice President Mike Gravel / vacant (Democratic)
1977-1981: President Mike Gravel / Senator William Proxmire (Democratic)
def. 1977: George Bush / John Lindsay (Republican); Meldrim Thomson, Jr. / John Ashbrook (Independent Conservative)

1981-1989: Gov. Elliot Richardson / Rep. Phil Crane (Republican)
def. 1980: William Proxmire / Joe Biden (Democratic); Mike Gravel / Gene McCarthy (Independent Progressive)
def. 1984: Joe Biden / Walter D. Huddleston (Democratic)

1989-1993: Fmr. Gov. Jerry Brown / Rep. Dick Gephardt (Democratic)
def. 1988: Donald Rumsfeld (replacing Phil Crane) / Jack Kemp (Republican)
1993-1997: President Jerry Brown / Sec. of Def. Chuck Robb (Democratic)
def. 1992: Jack Kemp / Kay A. Orr (Republican); Paul Wellstone / Dolores Huerta (Alternative for America)

1997-2005: Sen. Ken Lay / Sen. Tony Scalia (Republican)
def. 1996: Chuck Robb / Nancy D'Alesandro (Democratic)
def. 2001: Bill Bradley / Bob Graham (Democratic)

2005-2013: Vice Pres. Tony Scalia / Gov. Michael Bloomberg (Republican)
def. 2004: Evan Bayh / Mark Warner (Democratic)
def. 2008: Roberto Mondragon / Ted Strickland (Democratic)

2013-2017: Gov. Tom Vilsack / Sen. Barbara Underwood (Democratic)
def. 2012: Michael Bloomberg / Bill Scheutte (Republican)

2017-0000: Gov. Bill Scheutte / Fmr. Sec. of Defense Stanley McChrystal (Republican)
def. 2016: Tom Vilsack / Barbara Underwood (Democratic)


TL;DR: A strain of authoritarianism left around by an earlier Nixon and a worse version of the 70s recession (due to a much weaker safety net) becomes manifest under President Elliot Richardson, an American Lee Kuan Yew with all the good and bad that comes with it. The worst parts of recent American economic history get pumped up to 11, culminating in a second depression and a far more ruthless version of the Trump administration.

So, basically, Kennedy selects Symington as his Vice President over Johnson, believing that Symington is capable of appealing to a wider portion of the Democratic base than Johnson. Of course, Sanctimonious Stu's attempts to please everybody leads to him pleasing nobody, costing the Kennedy campaign Texas and Illinois (Daley, I guess, isn't a big fan of Symington). On the Republican side, Nixon selects Mitchell over Lodge, because while both of them would appeal to East Coast, WASPy liberal Republicans, Mitchell's (albeit limited) labor cred, on display while stumping for Nixon, allows them to chip into the Mid-Atlantic and "cloth-coat" voters in the Southwest and Midwest.

While the economy of the Nixon Era goes smoothly and the president implements several reforms, such as creating the Environmental Protection Agency and a Negative Income Tax for the lowest earners in the country (never mind that it's funding was taken from several other programs that were left nearly-moribund), the domestic front is far more tumultuous. The Cuban War, though a decisive win for the U.S. (well, it was, up until Cuba voted for independence in 2015, and Vilsack released them from their status as a territory) sparked several anti-War protests. Furthermore, progress on civil rights was stunted. In the years after his presidency, Nixon conceded that he deeply regrets his relative inaction on the subject, but the fact of the matter is the votes were not there. The moderate aspects of his proposals had turned off the most liberal of the Democrats, and their prospective amendments would have only turned off moderate Republicans and moderate-to-conservative Democrats. In the latter days of Nixon's second term, it appeared as though there was different riot in a different city every day. The odds were stacked against the liberal-leaning Vice President Rockefeller in his bid to win his own term in the White House.

On the Democratic side, Kennedy's failure had convinced the establishment that the path to the White House, once again, ran through the South. However, Nixon's campaign operatives had found some rather unclean moments in the history of the machine's hand-picked good ol' boy, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, leading to a decisive loss. Come 1968, Former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina looked like the best shot to thread the needle between the segregationist South, the labor-loving Midwest, and the progressive Northeast. To his credit, he did hold this tenuous coalition together, though historians credit much of his victory towards a lack of conservative turnout on the Republican side.

Sanford would spend the majority of his term trying to mitigate the many domestic crises, and he holds the distinction of being both the president to pass the Civil Rights Act and the man who got the populace to stop arguing and bask in the glory of the moon landing. However, the economy was beginning to falter due to excessive contractionary policy brought on by the Cuban War and the U.S.'s proxy war with the Soviets in Vietnam. Facing a close campaign for re-election, Sanford embarked on a trip through the South, starting in Wheaton, Maryland. He would never make it any further.

Sanford's assassination by Arthur Bremer forced his Vice President, the mild-mannered Wilbur Cohen into the presidency. The co-architect of Social Security-turned-Congressman from Michigan was chosen as a sop to the remaining New Dealers, labor leaders, and progressives. After riding the sympathy vote to a victory over Governor Agnew in 1972, Cohen passed a series of stimulus packages as part of his "Crusade Against Poverty." While he managed to get Americare, the health insurance program designed to cover the elderly and the poor, through Congress by the narrowest of margins, the rest of the programs were either shot down by the legislature or curb-stomped by the oil crisis. With a major recession on his hands, and all the new government programs the working class and poor had just received being reduced to underfunded, ineffective skeletons, Cohen was looking at a high likelihood of defeat.

Perhaps it was Cohen's acceptance that his bid for re-election would end in failure that led him to attempt to "speed up" the end of the Arab-Israeli War. His decision to throw troops and arms at the issue effectively embroiled the U.S. in yet another war. However, his efforts to accelerate the peace process by virtue of American force only exacerbated the oil crisis, raised gas prices to dangerous levels, and drew out the war effort. Differing reports from the administration gave all sorts of contradictory rationales, and, of course, the country would never hear the true, unfiltered reason from the man himself. However, there were those on the fringes of the political spectrum that had their own theories. In the spring of 1976, close to four years since his predecessor's death, President Cohen would be killed by a neo-Nazi by the name of Tex Watson.

Two presidential murders in four years does not a calm populace make, and with racial and anti-semitic tensions erupting across the nation, Mike Gravel was, to put it mildly, screwed. After all, he was never intended to be president. Cohen had determined that the South would be a lost cause in 1972, and instead opted to turn out the ever-elusive youth vote by selecting the New Left darling Alaskan senator as his running mate. After January 20th, however, Gravel was promptly shoved to the back of the storage closet. With an ongoing war- and once again, the sympathy vote- causing Democrats to decide against changing horses mid-stream and the Republic electorate split between its moderate and conservative wings, Gravel won by the slimmest of margins, only avoiding a contingent House election by two electoral votes. Furthermore, the Democrats' control of Congress had been gradually eroding, and was a mere five votes away from going to the Republicans. To his credit, Gravel tried his damndest to pull troops out of the region and give subsidies for alternative energy development, but his only "success" was the implementations of price controls on gasoline, which, of course, ended disastrously.

The turmoil on the streets, gas lines that stretched for hours, and a deteriorating situation in the Middle East were enough to force America into the cold, bureaucratic hands of Massachusetts Governor Elliot Richardson. For the Richardson presidency, imagine Reagan, but less socially conservative and (if you can imagine it) marginally more socially conservative. However, the authoritarian strain left in the Republican party during Nixon's crackdowns on anti-war and civil rights protesters in the late sixites became manifest, and Richardson and Crane would oversee brutal crackdowns on protests, activism, and ultra-progressivism, a series of events described by many as "the Third Red Scare".

As for his successor, a surefire win for Vice President Crane was scuppered by a drunk-driving accident that left him crippled, putting Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld in the driver's seat. Jerry Brown's presidency is similar to Clinton's, but due to Moonbeam having weaker ties to the working class, he places more of a focus on slashing the deficit and ending the late-Richardson-era contractionary policy that had stymied industrial growth. However, it was too little, too late, and despite having overseen the fall of the USSR, Brown was still holding the ball as a Frankenstein of a minor recession in '96- comprised of the best parts of the S&L crisis, the dotcom burst, and the exodus of manufacturing jobs from the US- sunk Vice President Robb's shot at the big time. History would be kinder to Brown, as his efforts to digitize the American government and economy were largely successful, and, when coupled with a booming finance industry, launched the GDP to new heights (even if the working class never saw a dime).

In the midst of another economic crisis, Americans wanted someone who could run the government like a business, and for that, they turned to energy magnate-turned-Senator Ken Lay, who greased the wheels of the financial and energy sectors with waves of de-regulation that would make even Richardson blush. When you combine a fantastic economy with a Democratic party in complete disarray, you get a third term for the GOP, under President Tony Scalia, a Richardson-era Justice Dept. official who would win himself a senate seat in Texas. While party fatigue in 2008 was set to scupper his efforts for re-election, the outbreak of war between India and Pakistan caused a rally-around-the-flag effect that was just strong enough to next a new record of four straight terms for the GOP. The US was drawn into the war due to a legacy of strong alliances and IOUS's- America and Pakistan got quite chummy over Operation Cyclone, in which the U.S. funded the Mujahideen fighters in the Soviet-Afghan War. Now, one of those very Mujahideen had become President of Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden, an expat from a wealthy Saudi family who joined up in the Afghan War effort, became a war hero, and attained political power in his adopted home. The bill came due, and the U.S. prepared itself for War Against India, and rallied support from across NATO to take on the subcontinent.

Then, in 2011, everything came crashing down. Predictably, the economic progress developed by Ken Lay was built on a very, very shaky foundation. When the Kashmir War caused oil prices to skyrocket and the globaly supply chain was disrupted by the world's second-largest labor force going to battle and being slain along with their infrastructure, combined with a bursting US housing bubble, the global economy collapsed into a depression. The efforts of the government's financial whiz-kids kept breadlines from forming, everyone across the world became far worse off in mere hours. From the rich and their destabilized financial institutions, to everyone else losing jobs en masse, owning a car becoming a liability in and of itself, house foreclosures cropping up down every street, and power blackouts plaguing the nation, everyone felt the- actually, let's be honest, the rich still came out a little better than everyone else.

President Vilsack was an optimistic, good-natured man who managed to build a coalition of all the wings of the Democratic party, for the first time in sixteen years. However, his efforts to restructure the economy were largely mediocre. Yes, the economy managed to claw its way out of depression status, but a massive deficit stunted alternative energy development programs, jobs programs were created and then slashed, and large swaths of the nation saw their quality of life backslide by a decade-and-a-half. Hell, if it wasn't for the internet, things in Middle America would be nearly indistinguishable from the late 70s. And it was on that late 70s-esque sense of malaise and social strife that another arch-conservative would take the helm. However, the neoliberal consensus was disproven, and thus, the right wing's champion would be Governor Bill Scheutte of Michigan, who made his name by deporting several thousand naturalized Arab-Americans from his state under the guise of "national security" and controlling the population amidst an economic crisis.

And, well, you can imagine what it's like to have a competent Trump in the White House in the aftermath of a Second Great Depression.

 

[Masteroftheuniverse]

It's not actually Halloween yet but what the hell.
American Politics is a Horrorshow
Based on this scenario.

1961-1965 John F. Kennedy (Democratic) (1)
1965- 1973 Richard Nixon (Republican) (2)
1973 Milton McGuire (Republican) (3)
1973-1977 Barry Goldwater (Republican) (4)
1977-1981 Ernest Hollings (Democratic) (5)
1981-1989 Donald Rumsfeld (Republican) (6)
1989-1997 Alexander Haig (Republican) (7)
1997-2005 James Traficant (Democratic) (8)
2005-2009 John Ashcroft (Republican) (9)
2009- ? Ashley J. Williams (Democratic) (10)

1. It was under Kennedy that The Terror begin, although nobody noticed at the time. The gruesome Bates murders shocked American society and dominated headlines for months, but at the time they seemed like perfectly mundane, if disturbing events. After his narrow election, Kennedy seemed set to be a popular President, with his movie star good looks and pretty young wife. Unfortunately, events intervened. The Plant Horror in New York was followed by the Avian Uprising of 1963 and the Slime People invasion of California, as well as dozens of smaller scale but no less bizarre and horrific events. Baffled and out of his depth, Kennedy failed to prevent the resulting moral panic from being weaponised by Republicans.
   
   
2. After having been elected Governor of California in the Republican landslide of 1962, the former Vice-President won the Republican nomination on a law and order platform, alleging that Kennedy was too weak to deal with the bizarre new events America was now faced with. Nixon, however would prove to be only marginally less effective. The troops that Kennedy had sent to Vietnam were recalled due to a desire to focus on home, which led in turn to détente with the Soviets and Chinese. Nixon was eventually able to pass a Civil Rights bill through Congress, a task not made easier by the rise in North-South tensions after several Yankee tourists were gruesomely murdered by a town of Neo-Confederates. It was under Nixon that the term “The Terror” was first used to describe the sudden prevalence of horrific and often supernatural events. Nixon created numerous task forces in attempts to discover the source of The Terror, to no avail. Meanwhile, a hardline reactionary movement began to grow in response to The Terror, as Evangelicals entered politics in droves. The first witch hunts began in 1967. 1968 was a particularly bad year, as the world was faced with the brief but bloody Insect Uprising, an invasion by body snatching aliens and the first great Zombie outbreak, with corpses rising from Pennsylvania to the Vistula. Given how much of the country was in chaos or under martial law at the time, it is still not entirely clear who really won the 1968 election.
   
   
3. Nobody quite knows who Milton McGuire actually was. The story that the public knew about in 1972- his election as Senator for New York, his lifelong friendship with Nixon, his winning combination of both a conservative record and a pro-civil rights one- was all a lie. There is no reliable record of McGuire ever having existed prior to winning the Republican nomination. Memories are hazy in the extreme, public records are obvious forgeries when they haven’t been mysteriously destroyed in fires and even his apparently loving family has vanished without a trace. The current theory is that McGuire was in his entirety a manifestation of The Terror, a theory which is born out by his ultimate fate. After a few months of relatively colourless governance, McGuire’s government was badly shaken by his press secretary’s contraction of lycanthropy and subsequent killing spree. McGuire himself was infected and subsequently transformed in the middle of a press conference, necessitating his death by silver bullet.
   
   
4. Goldwater was a stalwart of the conservative movement, who McGuire had chosen in order to offset his image as a moderate. Despite the right wing turn of the last decade, Goldwater was nevertheless out of touch with the mood of the public. Whilst Goldwater was willing to adopt common sense measures such as militarising the police and encouraging public gun ownership in response to The Terror, his libertarian leanings made him unwilling to pursue further measures, such as censorship of “pro-satanist” media and the banning of religions other than Christianity. Goldwater also alienated many by abandoning détente in favour of sabre rattling with the Soviets, when many argued that the US and USSR should be joining together against supernatural threats. Goldwater did, however show himself capable of decisive responses to threats, as shown by his quick response to a bioweapons incident in Pennsylvania and the nuclear destruction of Montreal after it was overrun by parasites which removed people’s inhibitions. The latter incident remains controversial, especially among Canadians, although knowledge of the debauched hell that Montreal had become has mitigated this. Goldwater also witnessed the Amity Island shark attacks, which marked the beginning of the trend towards animal attacks in Terror incidents of the 1970’s. Goldwater also cancelled the Apollo space programme following the Apollo 18 disaster. Due to a poor economy and his distance from public opinion, Goldwater lost the 1976 election.
   
   
5. The election of Hollings represented the Democratic party’s takeover by Southern conservatives, although he was always careful to condemn segregation. Hollings embraced the authoritarian measures that Goldwater had opposed, passing the 27th amendment to the Constitution, which partially repealed the 1st, allowing for laws restricting religion and free speech in cases of speech or religions inspired by entities hostile to human life. Hollings also passed environmental protection laws in response to a spate of terror incidents involving animals mutated by toxic waste. Hollings faced an unusual number of large-scale Terror incidents, including the northern California animal attacks, the uprising of giant mutated ants, the invasion by Pod People, the Black Prom incident in Maine and the second Pennsylvania zombie outbreak. Hollings also witnessed the first Slasher attacks, at the hands of individuals such as Leatherface and Michael Myers. Like Kennedy before him, Hollings lost due to a perception that he was unable to deal with The Terror, this time combined with a stagnant economy.
   
   
6. Rumsfeld took power amidst an increasingly apocalyptic mood. 20 years of The Terror had left an American public riven with paranoia and increasingly receptive to radical solutions. Religious fundamentalism was at an all time high, with Billy Graham’s third-party campaign in 1980 winning 23% of the vote. Riots, acts of terrorism and suicides became increasingly common. Most historians agree that a fundamentalist takeover was only prevented by divisions between Catholics and Protestants and between Protestants. Rumsfeld sought to keep a lid on unrest through extremely authoritarian measures, brutally suppressing riots and implementing media blackouts on all Terror events. Following the Videodrome incident, the government implemented tight control over all television networks. In response to the Slasher epidemic, the Rumsfeld administration created the Federal Mental Health Agency and gave them wide ranging powers to detain and forcibly treat individuals suspected of mental illness. Rumsfeld faced incidents such as the attack on the California coast by fish people, the nuclear destruction of Louisville, Kentucky after it was overrun by zombies, the attacks by Gremlins and CHUD, the prevalence of the highly addictive substance known as The Stuff and the Machine Uprising of 1986. Ultimately Rumsfeld was able to keep America halfway functional, although his methods left much to be desired.
   
   
7. Alexander Haig was elected due to his promise of applying “military solutions” to America’s problems. Early in his time in office, the Republican Party faced a serious blow when it was discovered that a significant percentage of the global rich were in fact shape shifting aliens who literally ate poor people. Perhaps because of this, Haig was known for his brutal and indiscriminate responses to Terror incidents, most notably when he firebombed Camp Crystal Lake in order to finally kill the Slasher Jason Voorhees and when he responded to the rampage of the Iron Men in Japan with orbital bombardment. Haig also witnessed the near collapse of the Soviet Union following economic meltdown and several cases of mad science gone out of control and surprised many by providing significant aid to keep the Soviets afloat. Public hysteria in America finally reached a crescendo in 1994, when the eldritch works of Sutter Cane led to madness on a scale that overwhelmed the FMHA, almost leading to the end of human civilisation. In response, Haig began the practice of keeping the population docile and happy by simply giving them regular doses of anti-depressants.
   
   
8. As doped up as the American population was, many were nevertheless tired of Republican in office after 16 years and willing to give the Governor of Ohio a chance. Traficant maintained Haig’s policy of public order via drugs but was wary of the implications of too much of the American population being on mind altering substances. Therefore, he encouraged the use of new synthetic drugs which prevented dreaming, both to remove exhausting nightmares and for other reasons (the inhabitants of Springwood, Ohio have been given enough of these drugs to kill a horse- nobody even remembers Freddy Krueger anymore). Traficant also controversially pursued good relations with some supernatural beings, such as the Nightbreed. Whilst Terror incidents continued under Traficant, a measure of stability had been restored and technological advances led to an economic boom. Advancing technology also allowed for more efficient methods of surveillance, as CCTV cameras and mobile phones equipped with tracking devices begin ubiquitous. Traficant also provided aid to a devastated Japan following the computer ghost attacks of 2001 and the revenge ghost outbreak of 2002 and to Britain following the outbreak of the Rage virus.
   
   
9. The presidency of John Ashcroft was troubled from the start, as he won only following a recount in Vermont and nevertheless lost the popular vote. Ashcroft pursued hardline authoritarian, religiously motivated policies, such as attempting to interfere with state laws which had legalised abortion and homosexuality. The Ashcroft administration also pursued an aggressive foreign policy, which led to tensions with the Soviets and the nationalistic “new Meiji” regime in power in Japan. Government secrecy and authoritarianism reached its apex in the Cube incident, it which it was discovered that the US government had somehow managed to build a giant cube filled with deathtraps and use it to kill several random citizens without anyone realising that this was what they were doing. Ashcroft was also criticised for an insufficient response to the rampage of the Cloverfield entity, which devastated New York. This ultimately led to his defeat in 2008.
   
   
10. Williams was a former supermarket employee who had risen to fame as a highly effective monster hunter. The only candidate ever to campaign with a chainsaw hand, Williams quickly acquired a highly dedicated following, winning in a landslide. Williams was able to use his popularity to pursue policies which would be unthinkable from anyone else, such as the partial dismantling of the enormous American security state, the reversal of several privatisations made under Goldwater and Rumsfeld and the recruitment of more supernatural being than ever before to the security services. However, the most notable event of Williams’ presidency has been the source of The Terror finally being discovered, in the form of several gigantic humanoid figures, lying miles beneath the ground.
    The Ancient Ones ruled the world long before man had climbed down from the trees. Their rule was a time of blood and magic, an age of almost incomprehensible terrors. For untold millenia they have slept but in recent decades their sleep has grown increasingly fitful. They have begun to dream. The information has been hidden from the public in order to prevent panic but thus far this has only led to a great deal of panicking in private. The Ancient Ones have brought human civilisation to its knees by dreaming. What will happen when they wake up?

Spoiler: Films Referenced

Psycho, The Birds, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Slime People, 2000 Maniacs, Genocide, Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, Night of the Living Dead, The Werewolf of Washington, The Crazies, Shivers, Jaws, Apollo 18, Day of the Animals, Empire of the Ants, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Carrie, Dawn of the Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Videodrome, Humanoids From the Deep, Return of the Living Dead, Gremlins, C.H.U.D, The Stuff, Maximum Overdrive, Society, Friday the 13th, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, In the Mouth of Madness, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nightbreed, Pulse, Ju-On: The Grudge, 28 Days Later, Cube, Evil Dead, Cabin in the Woods

 

[Frank Hart]

It's not actually Halloween yet but what the hell.
American Politics is a Horrorshow
Based on this scenario.

1961-1965 John F. Kennedy (Democratic) (1)
1965- 1973 Richard Nixon (Republican) (2)
1973 Milton McGuire (Republican) (3)
1973-1977 Barry Goldwater (Republican) (4)
1977-1981 Ernest Hollings (Democratic) (5)
1981-1989 Donald Rumsfeld (Republican) (6)
1989-1997 Alexander Haig (Republican) (7)
1997-2005 James Traficant (Democratic) (8)
2005-2009 John Ashcroft (Republican) (9)
2009- ? Ashley J. Williams (Democratic) (10)

Rumsfeld took power amidst an increasingly apocalyptic mood. 20 years of The Terror had left an American public riven with paranoia and increasingly receptive to radical solutions. Religious fundamentalism was at an all time high, with Billy Graham’s third-party campaign in 1980 winning 23% of the vote. Riots, acts of terrorism and suicides became increasingly common. Most historians agree that a fundamentalist takeover was only prevented by divisions between Catholics and Protestants and between Protestants. Rumsfeld sought to keep a lid on unrest through extremely authoritarian measures, brutally suppressing riots and implementing media blackouts on all Terror events. Following the Videodrome incident, the government implemented tight control over all television networks. In response to the Slasher epidemic, the Rumsfeld administration created the Federal Mental Health Agency and gave them wide ranging powers to detain and forcibly treat individuals suspected of mental illness. Rumsfeld faced incidents such as the attack on the California coast by fish people, the nuclear destruction of Louisville, Kentucky after it was overrun by zombies, the attacks by Gremlins and CHUD, the prevalence of the highly addictive substance known as The Stuff and the Machine Uprising of 1986. Ultimately Rumsfeld was able to keep America halfway functional, although his methods left much to be desired.

Alexander Haig was elected due to his promise of applying “military solutions” to America’s problems. Early in his time in office, the Republican Party faced a serious blow when it was discovered that a significant percentage of the global rich were in fact shape shifting aliens who literally ate poor people. Perhaps because of this, Haig was known for his brutal and indiscriminate responses to Terror incidents, most notably when he firebombed Camp Crystal Lake in order to finally kill the Slasher Jason Voorhees and when he responded to the rampage of the Iron Men in Japan with orbital bombardment. Haig also witnessed the near collapse of the Soviet Union following economic meltdown and several cases of mad science gone out of control and surprised many by providing significant aid to keep the Soviets afloat. Public hysteria in America finally reached a crescendo in 1994, when the eldritch works of Sutter Cane led to madness on a scale that overwhelmed the FMHA, almost leading to the end of human civilisation. In response, Haig began the practice of keeping the population docile and happy by simply giving them regular doses of anti-depressants.

Rumsfeldia in a horror genre, anyone?

Also, overall it looks like this: Ineffectual, ineffectual, eldritch, Anti-Communist, ineffectual, Rumsfeldia, Rumsfeldia Lite, stabilized, conservative, unorthodox.

 

[TheNixonator]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!:

1821-1825: Headless Horseman / His Horse (Headless Non-Partisan)
def. 1820 James Monroe / Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic-Republican)
1825-1833: Andrew Jackson / Jaynou O. Beck (Evil Immortal Time Traveler)
def. 1824 Headless Horseman / Adolf Hitler (Headless Evil Time Traveler) - def. 1828 Andrew Jackson / Jackson Andrew (Nullifier Good Alternate Universe)
1833-1837: John Floyd / Robert E. Lee (Nullifier Time Traveler Oops wrong Lee)
def. 1832 Adolf Hitler / Hugh L. White (Evil Time Traveler Vampire) and William Wirt / Amos Ellmaker (Anti-Demonic)
1837-1845: Ghost of Noah Webster / Hugh L. White (Ghost Oops wrong Webster Whig)
def. 1836 Daniel Webster / Francis Granger (Anti-Webster Dictionary) and Martin Van Buren / Richard M. Nixon (Democratic Republican Time Traveler Oops wrong Richard) - 1840 Ran unopposed
1845-1853: Jaynou O. Beck / Reinhold "Reince" Priebus (Time Traveler)
def. 1844 QAnon / Adolf Hitler (Evil Time Traveler) - def. 1848 Joseph Mama / Yuri Tarded (Evil)
1853-1861: David E. Duke / Leprechaun L. Gold (Evil Time Traveler Conservative)
def. 1852 Bernard Sanders / Joseph J. Steel (Time Traveler Immortal Evil) - def. 1856 Larry Cucumber / Bob Tomato (Time Traveler Christian)
1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln† / Thomas Jefferson (Vampire Hunter Zombie)
def. 1860 Count Dracula / VACANT (Dracula killed them all) (Evil Vampire)
1865-1869: Thomas Jefferson / VACANT (Zombie)
Sworn in in 1865
1869-1877: George Washington / Ghost of P.G.T. Beauregard (Zombie Ghost)
def. 1868 Danny Trejo / Danny Devito (Time Traveler Zombie Hunter Immortal Good)
1877-1881: Ghost of Horace Greeley / Ghost of Abraham Lincoln (Ghost)
Ran unopposed
1881-1886: Stephen Grover Cleveland* / Spiro T. Agnew* (1881-1885) VACANT (1885-1886) (Democratic Time Traveler)
def. 1880 John Hancock / William H. English (Zombie Oops wrong Hancock Democratic)
1886-1893: Abraham Van Helsing / Ghost of Abraham Lincoln (Vampire Hunter Ghost)
Due to Cleveland's resignation without a successor - def. 1888 Count Dracula / Peter Rugg (Evil Vampire)
1893-1897: Cleveland, Ohio / Adlai Stevenson III (Oops Wrong Cleveland Democratic Time Traveler Oops Wrong Adlai Stevenson)
def. 1892 The Entire State of Michigan / Flint, Michigan (SCREW OHIO! Evil)
1897-1905: Rump L. Stiltskin / Edmund Burke (Conservative Zombie)
def. 1896 Emma Goldman / Bernard Sanders (Time Traveler) - 1900 Ran unopposed
1905-1913: Thomas Woodrow Wilson / Count Dracula (Evil Vampire)
def. 1904 Ghost of Abraham Lincoln / VACANT (Vampire Hunter Ghost) - def. 1908 William Jennings Bryan / Adlai Stevenson I (Democratic)
1913-1921: Count Dracula / Lord Ruthven (Evil Vampire)
def. 1912 Ghost of Abraham Lincoln / Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Vampire Hunter Ghost) - def. 1916 Charles Evans Hughes / Charles Evans Hughes (Conservative Progressive Alternate Universe)
1921-1957: Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Joseph J. Steel (Immortal Evil)
def. 1920 William Jennings Bryan / James M. Cox (Democratic) - def. 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952 William Jennings Bryan / VACANT (Zombie)
1957-1961: Space Z. Alien / Space J. Alien (Alien)
Ran unopposed
1961-1969: Ghost of Abraham Lincoln / Ghost of Christmas Past (Vampire Hunter Ghost)
def. 1960 Count Dracula / John Wilkes Booth (Vampire Zombie Evil) - def. 1964 John Wilkes Booth / George C. Wallace (Zombie Evil)
1969-1977: Jack P.K. Skellington / Oogie Boogie (Spooky Evil)
def. 1968 Richard M. Nixon / Spiro T. Agnew (Republican) - def. 1972 William Jennings Bryan / William Wallace (Zombie)
1977-1985: James "Jimmy" Carter / Adolf Hitler (Democratic Evil Zombie)
def. 1976 Eugene J. McCarthy / Danny Devito (Republican Immortal Good) - def. 1980 Richard M. Nixon / VARIOUS (Republican)
1985-1986: George Washington† / George Washington (Time Traveler Zombie)
def. 1984 John Adams / Ghost of John Adams (Zombie Ghost Alternate Universe)
1986-1997: George Washington / George Washington (Zombie Time Traveler)
Sworn in 1986 - 1988 Ran unopposed - 1992 Ran unopposed
1997-2001: Henry Ross Perot / Ralph Nadar (Good)
def. 1996 Kang / Kodos (Alien) and Kodos / Kang (Alien)
2001-2009: DOOT D. OOT / Spooky S. Skeleton (CALCIUM COALITION)
def. 2000 Osama Bin Laden / Adolf Hitler (Evil Zombie)
2009-2017: William Jennings Bryan / Andrew Jackson (Zombie Evil Immortal)
def. 2008 Everyone / Noone (Why are you still running William Jennings Bryan) - def. 2012 Everyone / Noone (STOP IT WILLIAM JENNINGS PRYAN! YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE TO BECOME PRESIDENT!)
2017-????: David S. Pumpkins / Michael R. Pence (Spooky Christian Conservative)
def. 2016 QAnon / Adolf Hitler (Evil Zombie) and Pew D. Pie / Jack S.E.P. Ticye (Gamer)

† Died in office
* Resigned

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

In honor of Halloween:
A Confederacy of Bloodsuckers
Jefferson Davis/Alexander Stephens 1861-1868
Alexander Stephens/Judah P. Benjamin 1868-1874
1867: Def. Robert E. Lee/Wade Hampton
States Rights Gist/Bill Compton 1874-1879 (Overthrown)
1873: Def. Wade Hampton/Fitzhugh Lee
Bill Compton/vacant 1879-1880
Bill Compton/Barnabas Collins 1880-1886
Lestat de Lioncourt/John C. Calhoun 1886-1892
Liam 'Angelus' Jones/Rhett Butler 1892-1904
Jasper Hale/Nathan Bedford Forrest 1904-1922
Jake Featherston/Vlad Dracula 1922-1978 (Killed)
Eric Brooks/John Winchester 1978-1980 (Dissolved)


Basic premise here is that the Confederacy's origin story is the same as how it was in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: namely the country as a whole was a front for slaveholding vampires to ensure they could continue to feed. Here, though, the South wins the Civil War and the CSA is established. The Confederacy is dominated behind the scenes by elite vampires, but the day-to-day governance is carried out by humans. However, the growth of softcore abolitionism born of realpolitik and a desire to forge closer ties with Britain leads to the rise of the Liberty Party that makes the vampires sweat. Ultimately, with an economic downturn and a populist shift of the Liberty Party, the vampires realize slavery's days are numbered if even the limited democracy remains.

Thus, the vampire vice president Bill Compton kills Gist, reveals vampires' existence and the Confederacy shifts to an even more oligarchic form of governance. A large chunk of the planter class is vampirized and the ones who aren't lose any say in the government. A lot of vampires from abroad come to the Confederacy to partake in the feast it provides, including such notable figures as the Scourge of Europe and Count Orlok. The common Confederate white man is only marginally better off than the enslave African-Americans and both are treated as little more than a food source by the vampire rulers of the CSA. The drawback is, of course, this means the masses are not too keen on the whole thing and when the US and Confederacy go to war it turns into a route for the latter. Uprisings in the CSA hamper the war effort and Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and half of Virginia are annexed by the US. Arkansas and Louisiana are formed into a US puppet state under the leadership of Huey Long.

The humiliation leaves the Confederacy's vampiric rulers lost and struggling to maintain control. Enter Jake Featherston. He is only a fledgling vampire, but he already has a bold vision: vampires could, with the right numbers, rule the world. And he knows how to get to that point. After taking of the CSA alongside the elder vampire known elsewhere as Count Dracula, Featherston forcibly makes half of the white population into vampires, more than tripling the number of vampires worldwide in the process. The physiological advantages vampires possess over humans and their ability to tap into dark forces allows Featherston to revitalize the Confederate armed forces and subsume Louisiana rapidly. The US, while concerned, is preoccupied by incursions by a race of fish-men into New England and thus Featherston is able to build up forces. In 1941, the CSA invades the lost territories with armies of thousands of vampires, bolstered by more mindless sorts of undead. Texas and the Upper South quickly fall and soon so does the Midwest, much of the Great Plains and the Southwest.

However, the US is able to halt the Confederate advance altogether by 1945, when several cities are destroyed with US nuclear weapons. While less destructive to vampires compared to normal humans and almost irrelevant to zombies, the CSA advance is halted before they can descend upon Philadelphia. However, at this point, Featherston has vampire agents embedded within the US spawn new bloodsuckers behind US lines, which weakens US defenses and allows the Confederacy to advance once again. Eventually the front lines stabilize, but by this point the CSA has subsumed most of the continent. Only the Northeastern United States, a narrow strip of the West Coast stretching from Santa Cruz to Seattle and Central America south of the Nicaragua Canal Zone remain outside of Confederate control. Partisan resistance remains strong enough that these holdouts persist. A decades-long conflict is the result, with fighting sporadically breaking out on all fronts and within the CSA as Featherston industrializes the feeding of vampires. Large swaths of North America are wiped clean by nuclear weapons and millions are drained completely by vampires in the occupied territories.

What ultimately beats the Confederacy, however, is the efforts of Eric Brooks. Brooks, a half-vampire of African descent, recruited a number of individuals possessing talent in slaying vampires, including John Winchester, the vampirized former US president Abraham Lincoln, the Slayer Nikki Wood, Jonathan Morris and William Van Helsing, to bring down Featherston for good. In the end, while over half of Brooks' forces are killed, Featherston and Dracula both are killed along with most of the CSA's government and the ensuing chaos sees the US overwhelm most of the remaining Confederate forces. Within two years, Brooks declares the end of the Confederate States of America and the South once again is under the Stars and Stripes and free from the bloodsoaked regime that had ruled for over a century.

 

[Nintendogamemaster]

In honor of Halloween:
A Confederacy of Bloodsuckers
Jefferson Davis/Alexander Stephens 1861-1868
Alexander Stephens/Judah P. Benjamin 1868-1874
1867: Def. Robert E. Lee/Wade Hampton
States Rights Gist/Bill Compton 1874-1879 (Overthrown)
1873: Def. Wade Hampton/Fitzhugh Lee
Bill Compton/vacant 1879-1880
Bill Compton/Barnabas Collins 1880-1886
Lestat de Lioncourt/John C. Calhoun 1886-1892
Liam 'Angelus' Jones/Rhett Butler 1892-1904
Jasper Hale/Nathan Bedford Forrest 1904-1922
Jake Featherston/Vlad Dracula 1922-1978 (Killed)
Eric Brooks/John Winchester 1978-1980 (Dissolved)


Basic premise here is that the Confederacy's origin story is the same as how it was in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: namely the country as a whole was a front for slaveholding vampires to ensure they could continue to feed. Here, though, the South wins the Civil War and the CSA is established. The Confederacy is dominated behind the scenes by elite vampires, but the day-to-day governance is carried out by humans. However, the growth of softcore abolitionism born of realpolitik and a desire to forge closer ties with Britain leads to the rise of the Liberty Party that makes the vampires sweat. Ultimately, with an economic downturn and a populist shift of the Liberty Party, the vampires realize slavery's days are numbered if even the limited democracy remains.

Thus, the vampire vice president Bill Compton kills Gist, reveals vampires' existence and the Confederacy shifts to an even more oligarchic form of governance. A large chunk of the planter class is vampirized and the ones who aren't lose any say in the government. A lot of vampires from abroad come to the Confederacy to partake in the feast it provides, including such notable figures as the Scourge of Europe and Count Orlok. The common Confederate white man is only marginally better off than the enslave African-Americans and both are treated as little more than a food source by the vampire rulers of the CSA. The drawback is, of course, this means the masses are not too keen on the whole thing and when the US and Confederacy go to war it turns into a route for the latter. Uprisings in the CSA hamper the war effort and Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and half of Virginia are annexed by the US. Arkansas and Louisiana are formed into a US puppet state under the leadership of Huey Long.

The humiliation leaves the Confederacy's vampiric rulers lost and struggling to maintain control. Enter Jake Featherston. He is only a fledgling vampire, but he already has a bold vision: vampires could, with the right numbers, rule the world. And he knows how to get to that point. After taking of the CSA alongside the elder vampire known elsewhere as Count Dracula, Featherston forcibly makes half of the white population into vampires, more than tripling the number of vampires worldwide in the process. The physiological advantages vampires possess over humans and their ability to tap into dark forces allows Featherston to revitalize the Confederate armed forces and subsume Louisiana rapidly. The US, while concerned, is preoccupied by incursions by a race of fish-men into New England and thus Featherston is able to build up forces. In 1941, the CSA invades the lost territories with armies of thousands of vampires, bolstered by more mindless sorts of undead. Texas and the Upper South quickly fall and soon so does the Midwest, much of the Great Plains and the Southwest.

However, the US is able to halt the Confederate advance altogether by 1945, when several cities are destroyed with US nuclear weapons. While less destructive to vampires compared to normal humans and almost irrelevant to zombies, the CSA advance is halted before they can descend upon Philadelphia. However, at this point, Featherston has vampire agents embedded within the US spawn new bloodsuckers behind US lines, which weakens US defenses and allows the Confederacy to advance once again. Eventually the front lines stabilize, but by this point the CSA has subsumed most of the continent. Only the Northeastern United States, a narrow strip of the West Coast stretching from Santa Cruz to Seattle and Central America south of the Nicaragua Canal Zone remain outside of Confederate control. Partisan resistance remains strong enough that these holdouts persist. A decades-long conflict is the result, with fighting sporadically breaking out on all fronts and within the CSA as Featherston industrializes the feeding of vampires. Large swaths of North America are wiped clean by nuclear weapons and millions are drained completely by vampires in the occupied territories.

What ultimately beats the Confederacy, however, is the efforts of Eric Brooks. Brooks, a half-vampire of African descent, recruited a number of individuals possessing talent in slaying vampires, including John Winchester, the vampirized former US president Abraham Lincoln, the Slayer Nikki Wood, Julius Belmont and William Van Helsing, to bring down Featherston for good. In the end, while over half of Brooks' forces are killed, Featherston and Dracula both are killed along with most of the CSA's government and the ensuing chaos sees the US overwhelm most of the remaining Confederate forces. Within two years, Brooks declares the end of the Confederate States of America and the South once again is under the Stars and Stripes and free from the bloodsoaked regime that had ruled for over a century.

I love this whole thing, but wasnt Julius Belmont born in the 1980? Would have used Jonathan Morris (grandson of Quincy Morris who was born in 1926, thus would be in his 50s during these events)

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

I love this whole thing, but wasnt Julius Belmont born in the 1980? Would have used Jonathan Morris (grandson of Quincy Morris who was born in 1926, thus would be in his 50s during these events)

This is what I get for not playing Castlevania. Changed it

 

[Frank Hart]

In honor of Halloween:
A Confederacy of Bloodsuckers
Jefferson Davis/Alexander Stephens 1861-1868
Alexander Stephens/Judah P. Benjamin 1868-1874
1867: Def. Robert E. Lee/Wade Hampton
States Rights Gist/Bill Compton 1874-1879 (Overthrown)
1873: Def. Wade Hampton/Fitzhugh Lee
Bill Compton/vacant 1879-1880
Bill Compton/Barnabas Collins 1880-1886
Lestat de Lioncourt/John C. Calhoun 1886-1892
Liam 'Angelus' Jones/Rhett Butler 1892-1904
Jasper Hale/Nathan Bedford Forrest 1904-1922
Jake Featherston/Vlad Dracula 1922-1978 (Killed)
Eric Brooks/John Winchester 1978-1980 (Dissolved)

Love it, but what cities were nuked in 1945?

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if North America becomes irradiated wasteland because of Featherston. For a downer ending, perhaps an all-out nuclear war from the 1940s onwards between a resistant United States and the Confederate States under Featherston wipes out both the USA and the CSA instead? No winners, only a lifeless continent that was once home to hundreds of millions.