What if Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party won the 2016 election? How would the Democrats and Republicans react to Johnson's victory? How would the media treat him? How would he handle COVID-19?
What If Gary Johnson won the 2016 election?
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Firstly, this is almost certainly current politics, and thus needs to be in Chat.
Secondly, I suspect people's initial reaction would be "WTF!? Check the votes again."
Secondly, I suspect people's initial reaction would be "WTF!? Check the votes again."
The only way Gary Johnson can win the 2016 presidential election is if he runs unopposed.
And even then it's a long shot
And even then it's a long shot
There is one way, that is to make the democratic party reject the new left and go for libertarianism instead, so by 2016 they can launch him as their candidate.
Really? I'm new here so I wouldn't know also what would his relationship with the media be like?
Probably chat.
But in broad terms, if a third party candidate won, Congress would do everything in their power to screw him over.
But in broad terms, if a third party candidate won, Congress would do everything in their power to screw him over.
This would require NeverTrump to rally around him and for Trump to implode. At that point, Johnson is de facto a Republican-aligned President.
You'd see certain progressives being very happy with him upholding DACA and descheduling marijuana (maybe other drugs too). He'd enrage a lot of security hawks by pardoning Snowden. He may try to fold DHS into the DOJ. GOP would generally line up with the Paul Ryan GOP on the economic front though and the Foreign Policy shift wouldn't be that dramatic.
TPP goes through.
Names mentioned during the campaign that Johnson and Weld liked for Cabinet gigs were Mitt Romney and Mike Leavitt. Johnson in 2020 liked Tulsi Gabbard. The economic adviser was Harvard's Director of Undergraduate Economics and the SCOTUS shortlist could be described as a Federalist Society list vetted by Libertarians. It'd be a pecular mix of some of the most progressive Democratic Party elements, very mainstream GOP, and the right-of-center think tank/academia space.
This is probably crossing the line into chat, bit given how the two most up for grabs political factions in 2016 seemed to be very progressive Bernie folks who didn't like Clinton and culturally moderate nevertrump conservatives, Johnson-Weld was actually a very fitting third party ticket for playing to both of those.
You'd see certain progressives being very happy with him upholding DACA and descheduling marijuana (maybe other drugs too). He'd enrage a lot of security hawks by pardoning Snowden. He may try to fold DHS into the DOJ. GOP would generally line up with the Paul Ryan GOP on the economic front though and the Foreign Policy shift wouldn't be that dramatic.
TPP goes through.
Names mentioned during the campaign that Johnson and Weld liked for Cabinet gigs were Mitt Romney and Mike Leavitt. Johnson in 2020 liked Tulsi Gabbard. The economic adviser was Harvard's Director of Undergraduate Economics and the SCOTUS shortlist could be described as a Federalist Society list vetted by Libertarians. It'd be a pecular mix of some of the most progressive Democratic Party elements, very mainstream GOP, and the right-of-center think tank/academia space.
This is probably crossing the line into chat, bit given how the two most up for grabs political factions in 2016 seemed to be very progressive Bernie folks who didn't like Clinton and culturally moderate nevertrump conservatives, Johnson-Weld was actually a very fitting third party ticket for playing to both of those.
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