Jerry Brown is elected president in 1980.
Notably, his candidate for vice president, Senator Edward Brooke, is not just a Republican, he is also African-American. The nation is inspired by this impressive new wave of history...
...and within several days of the election, a coalition of Turner Diaries-reading white supremacist top thugs call for a big gathering at a compound in Virginia, and attendees are asked to bring as many of their firearms as possible.
They swear up and down that they cannot stand by and let "a poster boy for miscegenation and urban so-called culture" be so close to the White House. The plan was for ten thousand soldiers of glory to storm the District of Columbia on inauguration day, capture and execute the elected national leaders "and their cabal of race traitors and communist scumbags and pederasts and homosexuals," and raze the city to the ground. Then of course Racial Holy War would have its head start, they could nuke NYC and LA, bla bla etc.
Through the end of December, waiting in vain for more soldiers for white glory to arrive at the compound for training, the coalition leaders defiantly claim that they could pull it off "with a mere couple thousand or so."
On inauguration day, several hundred of the most desperate self-deluded incompetently led f___-ups somehow miss the swearing-in ceremony and attempt to storm the presidential motorcade en route to the White House.
The decision to mount the attack from "several key points of infiltration" translates into the groups of uncoordinated thugs being tripped out of the box by armed-to-the-teeth psyched-up Secret Service agents, chased back into their "enhanced cover" starting points, trapped like filthy rats, and massacred.
Not a single bullet or shot or flaming arrow gets past the motorcade protective armor, and as the limos speed away, the surprised leaders and entourage barely get a glimpse of their would-be judges and executioners.
As dozens of the terrorists scramble in utter shock and terror for any way out, the secret service shooters track and kill anyone wearing camouflage or swastika armbands.
One of the very few civilian fatalities is an elderly black veteran in a three-piece suit. The gentleman, armed with his fastidiously maintained service Colt 1911 pistol, manages to kill --with head-shots-- seven or eight terrorists before the decapitated flying head of one of the racist thugs strikes the veteran on the back of his head, triggering a severe and ultimately fatal stroke. (The man is hailed as a hero, and his descendants will want for nothing.)
As a matter of prudence, the Brown administration declares a state of emergency...