TLIAM: An Inconvenient Millennium

This is just a thoroughgoing pleasure all the way through @TG. Hell of a nice ride. One wrinkle that could be thrown in with Riley: around that same time in OTL (during the one year of my life I had to spend in Alabama...) Riley, a thoroughgoing conservative, got in a massive fight with his own Republican state legislature because Riley decided that, say, Matthew 25 and a few similar bits of the Gospels were actually parts of that ol' inerrant Bible one should pay attention to and tried to raise taxes to provide a few key (food and medical IIRC) social services to the very poor. They were mopping up the exploding heads in the Alabama lege for months. More or less drove him out of politics there, the consequences of that. Could be a fun hat-tip in @RedTory's direction.

*Also I totally need to go read your Manning TL. I have questions (so many questions) for a TL of my own where I'd like to not neglect Canada in which Mulroney's glitzy '76 bid goes so far south he sticks to high-priced lawyering and the right lacks a champion in the Eighties so Joe Clark Red Tories it on up as the electoral seasons turn, building up tremendous pressure from the right especially the Western right which already then has no outstanding figure to which they can turn (chance of an earlier revolt then? How would it feed the institutional development of something like OTL's Reform? So many questions...)

But this, this is an awesome start. Don't suddenly go running back to Preston Manning before we get another update here :)

Also: Joe Lieberman. Not even once. A man who shanked one of the last decent (one of the very last liberal) Republicans, Lowell Weicker, and as I said in a different thread, you want the first Jewish American on a major US party ticket? I've got five words: Barbara Boxer or Russ Feingold. And that does not even blink in the direction of Paul Wellstone because don't even get me started on a Wellstone Lives scenario, one where Wellstone picks up Lieberman like Emperor Palpatine and chucks him down the reactor shaft would be especially good now that I think about it (as the Force ghost of Bernie Sanders tells Wellstone to trust his feelings) ...
 
Preach. (Speaking as a lifelong lefty Dem and reading your sig line, I want you guys back badly. We were natural allies on a number of issues.)

Indeed we were and still are.

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While I am optimistic, I don't think the GOP has much a of chance of moving to the left on any issues. Who knows? With a new generation, anything could happen.
 
This is just a thoroughgoing pleasure all the way through @TG. Hell of a nice ride. One wrinkle that could be thrown in with Riley: around that same time in OTL (during the one year of my life I had to spend in Alabama...) Riley, a thoroughgoing conservative, got in a massive fight with his own Republican state legislature because Riley decided that, say, Matthew 25 and a few similar bits of the Gospels were actually parts of that ol' inerrant Bible one should pay attention to and tried to raise taxes to provide a few key (food and medical IIRC) social services to the very poor. They were mopping up the exploding heads in the Alabama lege for months. More or less drove him out of politics there, the consequences of that. Could be a fun hat-tip in @RedTory's direction.

*Also I totally need to go read your Manning TL. I have questions (so many questions) for a TL of my own where I'd like to not neglect Canada in which Mulroney's glitzy '76 bid goes so far south he sticks to high-priced lawyering and the right lacks a champion in the Eighties so Joe Clark Red Tories it on up as the electoral seasons turn, building up tremendous pressure from the right especially the Western right which already then has no outstanding figure to which they can turn (chance of an earlier revolt then? How would it feed the institutional development of something like OTL's Reform? So many questions...)

But this, this is an awesome start. Don't suddenly go running back to Preston Manning before we get another update here :)

Also: Joe Lieberman. Not even once. A man who shanked one of the last decent (one of the very last liberal) Republicans, Lowell Weicker, and as I said in a different thread, you want the first Jewish American on a major US party ticket? I've got five words: Barbara Boxer or Russ Feingold. And that does not even blink in the direction of Paul Wellstone because don't even get me started on a Wellstone Lives scenario, one where Wellstone picks up Lieberman like Emperor Palpatine and chucks him down the reactor shaft would be especially good now that I think about it (as the Force ghost of Bernie Sanders tells Wellstone to trust his feelings) ...
Appreciate it! I knew about that bit of Riley's tenure as Governor, and I thought about maybe doing something along those lines, but it didn't really seem feasible given how limited his powers were as Acting President.

Hope you like the The Populist Problem whenever you get a chance to read it! I plan on continuing it at some point, though at the moment am still in a bit of a writer's block. If you want to bounce any ideas off of me/ask any Canada questions, feel free to message me if you'd like!
 
Appreciate it! I knew about that bit of Riley's tenure as Governor, and I thought about maybe doing something along those lines, but it didn't really seem feasible given how limited his powers were as Acting President.

Hope you like the The Populist Problem whenever you get a chance to read it! I plan on continuing it at some point, though at the moment am still in a bit of a writer's block. If you want to bounce any ideas off of me/ask any Canada questions, feel free to message me if you'd like!
You're very welcome. Understand about Riley, and I will take you up on that offer, I warn you :)
 
Also a fun fact: Riley is (if I'm not mistaken) the first Vice-President since Richard Mentor Johnson (the Indian-killing drunk Kentuckian with several black wives) who was denied an electoral college majority and had to be picked by the Senate.
 
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