alternatehistory.com

Here's an amusing suggestion at the sides in Perot's court if he was able to be elected president, and somehow shape American politics afterwards:

The Perot presidency, and slew of protectionist candidates elected to Congress in '92 from either party, gradually transforms the country along the lines of his United We Stand America policies - including a reversal of Reagan's free trade, massive federal intervention into business, limited taxation, and essentially replacing the function of Congress with direct democracy by home computer of the American populace getting to judge proposals from the administration and select experts and industrialists. Gradually the USA becomes the USWA. Though organized parties do not truly exist as elected representatives have been completely stripped of salary and perks and elected officials in the executive share power in a very corporatist manner with select figures from the public and private sectors, several broad factions solidify following Perot's death:
- Protectionists: Keep the Perot course. A corporatist America designed to compete economically with rising economic giants like China and Japan.
- Nationalists: Buchanan's xenophobic, rabidly anti-internationalism of any kind, paleoconservatives
- Isolationists: Nader's anti-globalist greens and progressives
- Constitutionalists: Militia and conspiracy nutbars who want to further dismantle what vestiges of federal representative democracy are left and are hell-bent on keeping America safe from the UN NWO black helicopter conspiracy. Led by Linda Thompson, militia lawyer and self-appointed Adjutant General of the Unorganized Militias of the UWSA
- Populists: Jesse Ventura's moderate faction.

Does that sound about right? I suppose in this timeline Trump would be a Protectionist, albeit a loud one that's constantly vying against Ventura to lead the Populists, and flirting with all of the other sides.
Top