what's the worst post-FDR line-up of presidents possible?
But seriously.
Henry A. Wallace (D)(1945-1949)
-too soft on communism, radical leftist (for the US)
George Wallace (D)(1969-1977)
-racist, populist.
But seriously.
Ignoring butterflies (which are huge) and only going after candidates that were or wanted to be the candidate for their party, I'll go with:
Henry A. Wallace (D)(1945-1949)
-too soft on communism, radical leftist (for the US)
Robert Taft (R)(1949-1953)
-too old, too conservative, not likely to make the UN or NATO work at all
Harold Stassen (R)(1953-1957)
-too liberal, too early, tries to jump start desegregation and fails miserably
Adlai Stevenson (D)(1957-1961)
-too idealistic, too self-believing for the Cold War
Richard Nixon (R)(1961-1969)
-do I need to say anything?
George Wallace (D)(1969-1977)
-racist, populist.
...and there are too many butterflies there to continue.
Note that I'm saying nothing about the men, just that their views would have been bad for the time they would've been president.
Richard Nixon (R)(1961-1969)
-do I need to say anything?
He went to China. That stops me from hating him.Actually, he might be the best of the bunch. True, he was a complete illegitimate lovechild, but at least he was competent.
Good list, but I'd try to fit Barry Goldwater and Spiro Agnew in there somewhere. Oh, and I know who can succeed George Wallace: Pat Robertson.
Goldwater wasn't quite as bad as the left makes out.
1945 Henry Wallace (D)
1949 Joseph McCarthy (R)
1953 Strom Thurmond (D)
1961 Douglas MacArthur (R)
1963 Curtis LeMay (R)
1969 Eugene McCarthy (D)
1977 George Wallace (D/A)
1985 Jerry Brown (D)
1989 Pat Buchanan (R)
1997 Jessee Jackson (R)
2005 Mike Huckabee (R)
The line-up in "For All Time" was very bad. The POD is that FDR dies suddenly in late December 1941...
IIRC, there was Henry Wallace, followed by Robert Taft, Thomas Dewey, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr, Robert LaFollete, Clark Gable, Barry Goldwater, Joseph Foss, George McGovern, Jim Jones, and then a ten-year military government led by Alexander Haig. Haig is succeeded by Slade Gorton, who is then finally defeated by the Republican ticket of Russ Feingold and Pat Buchanan.
How does Strom Thurmond become president?
Why is Jesse Jackson a Republican? He's not!
Here's when their terms in office were in FaT (I may have messed up the dates for some of the later ones):
Henry Wallace (1941-1945)
Robert Taft (1945-1950) [Assassinated by Puerto Rican nationalists]
Thomas Dewey (1950-1953)
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr (1953-1962) [Assassinated by Charles Whitman]
Robert LaFollete (1962) [Dies in a bizzare confrontation with African-American rioters outside of the White House; race relations in FaT's America are nothing short of terrible]
Clark Gable (1962-1965)
Barry Goldwater (1965-1969)
Joseph Foss (1969-1973)
George McGovern (1973-1977)
Jim Jones (1977-1980) [Need I say more? He's the last elected President for a while; Alexander Haig heads a junta in Jones' absense]
Alexander Haig (1980-c. 1993)
Slade Gorton (c. 1993-2001)
Russ Feingold (2000-present)
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Given the dynamics of FaT, everything that can go wrong in the world goes wrong, not just in the USA. But the terrible Presidents of the USA are a major part of the timeline...