So let's say instead of the Republican Party becoming the other dominant Party in American Governance it instead is a Socialist Party. Let's also make some Republicans like Abraham Lincoln prominent Socialist in this timeline.
A little guideline for this Socialist Party, there are a couple of different wings (you got full on socialist, proto-social democrats, syndicalists like Ideologies, a prominent Christian Socialist wing, and some radical authoritarian socialist types and an election reform wing seeking to abolish the electoral college) the platform at large argues for socialist principles, like wealth redistribution, land redistribution, fights for far stronger unions and equal rights for immigrants, woman, etc. They are very pro-civil rights and the rest of the package which socialist parties fight for.
Some guidelines, the Civil War still happens and the Union still wins. Also, you can't abolish democracy and keep the 2 party system intact. The Democrat party still remains and general American election style stays. How does this Socialist Party alter both the democratic party and American politics at large and what effects would we see in the 20th and 21st century and beyond.
A little guideline for this Socialist Party, there are a couple of different wings (you got full on socialist, proto-social democrats, syndicalists like Ideologies, a prominent Christian Socialist wing, and some radical authoritarian socialist types and an election reform wing seeking to abolish the electoral college) the platform at large argues for socialist principles, like wealth redistribution, land redistribution, fights for far stronger unions and equal rights for immigrants, woman, etc. They are very pro-civil rights and the rest of the package which socialist parties fight for.
Some guidelines, the Civil War still happens and the Union still wins. Also, you can't abolish democracy and keep the 2 party system intact. The Democrat party still remains and general American election style stays. How does this Socialist Party alter both the democratic party and American politics at large and what effects would we see in the 20th and 21st century and beyond.