Washington does not relent

How would America have developed if after his 2nd term, Washington decides not to step down and agrees to run for a 3rd term and on top of that decides that he would give his support to his son after he finally decides he no longer wants to be President? Would such a scenario been practical or even probable? In fact what if the generals had not relented when Washington ordered the farmers riots of 1987 put down? could we have had a military coup in this country?
 
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Washington didn't have a son. He had a stepson, but I don't think the stepson was ever involved in politics. As for popular reaction, note the huge newspaper clamor about John Quincy Adams' being involved in diplomacy - they wouldn't have tolerated John Park Custis getting anywhere near the Presidency.

And what are these "farmers' riots" you're talking about - Shay's Rebellion of 1787, where Washington wasn't involved at all? (It was handled completely by Massachusetts.)
 
Military officers in the revolutionary and early republic period tended to be aristocratic, or at least generally unsympathetic to populism.

The only real military dissent, besides Arnold, was the Newburgh conspiracy, but that was in 1783.
 
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