Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi: was a minor backbench politician of the once powerful Indian National Congress. His brand of tolerant, inclusive Hinduism had very few adherents in the era of of muscular, assertive BJP Hindutva. He also fell out of favor in the Congress Party after he criticized the leadership for among other things, "eating meat and drinking alcohol". The INC expelled him in 2019. He spends most of his time these days meditating in his Ashram in Gujarat.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah: A wealthy and highly educated lawyer, independent MP, and a thorn in the side of the Pakistani political and religious establishment due to his constant advocacy for secularism. Religious figures have condemned him and there is a fear that he may be assassinated. He makes no secret of the fact that while he supports Pakistan as a state for India's Muslims ("look at Modi" he famously said), he also drinks, smokes, and rarely prays. While popular among educated, liberal Pakistanis, he is unlikely to go far in the overtly religious society of 2020 Pakistan.
John A. MacDonald: highly intelligent and educated, he nevertheless was kicked out of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2006 after repeatedly showing up drunk in Parliament. He had also rubbed the Reaganite Harper the wrong way by denouncing free trade and calling for large scale investment in infrastructure (he was especially fond of railways). To many, he seemed like a throwback to an earlier era, when Canadian Conservatives were protectionist and spent generously on infrastructure. He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 2017.
Mackenzie King: Originally a liberal, he was expelled from the LPC by Justin Trudeau after he stood up in Parliament and declared "Canada is a white man's country and it must remain a white man's country". He also denounced Trudeau apologizing for Native Residential Schools. He said "The Indian was an uncivilized savage when the Europeans came. Residential schools were an attempt teach them Christian values". People were shocked, since thousands of Natives were abused and killed in the school system. It was shocking that a Liberal in the 21st Century would say such things. Much as the case with John A. MacDonald, King seemed like a throwback to an earlier era, when Liberals were racist against Natives and opposed non white immigration.
King is currently a member of Maxime Bernier's far right wing, anti immigrant People's Party of Canada.
Note: in all these cases, I decided to give the people the original personalities and habits they had in our timeline. I realize of course, that this is unlikely had they lived in our era. Mackenzie King, for example, was a highly educated, extremely intelligent man with a social conscience. I highly doubt that he would utter the crude racist crap he did in the 1930s.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah: A wealthy and highly educated lawyer, independent MP, and a thorn in the side of the Pakistani political and religious establishment due to his constant advocacy for secularism. Religious figures have condemned him and there is a fear that he may be assassinated. He makes no secret of the fact that while he supports Pakistan as a state for India's Muslims ("look at Modi" he famously said), he also drinks, smokes, and rarely prays. While popular among educated, liberal Pakistanis, he is unlikely to go far in the overtly religious society of 2020 Pakistan.
John A. MacDonald: highly intelligent and educated, he nevertheless was kicked out of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2006 after repeatedly showing up drunk in Parliament. He had also rubbed the Reaganite Harper the wrong way by denouncing free trade and calling for large scale investment in infrastructure (he was especially fond of railways). To many, he seemed like a throwback to an earlier era, when Canadian Conservatives were protectionist and spent generously on infrastructure. He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 2017.
Mackenzie King: Originally a liberal, he was expelled from the LPC by Justin Trudeau after he stood up in Parliament and declared "Canada is a white man's country and it must remain a white man's country". He also denounced Trudeau apologizing for Native Residential Schools. He said "The Indian was an uncivilized savage when the Europeans came. Residential schools were an attempt teach them Christian values". People were shocked, since thousands of Natives were abused and killed in the school system. It was shocking that a Liberal in the 21st Century would say such things. Much as the case with John A. MacDonald, King seemed like a throwback to an earlier era, when Liberals were racist against Natives and opposed non white immigration.
King is currently a member of Maxime Bernier's far right wing, anti immigrant People's Party of Canada.
Note: in all these cases, I decided to give the people the original personalities and habits they had in our timeline. I realize of course, that this is unlikely had they lived in our era. Mackenzie King, for example, was a highly educated, extremely intelligent man with a social conscience. I highly doubt that he would utter the crude racist crap he did in the 1930s.
