Bull Moose Progressives Today

What would the Bull Moose Progressive Party be like today? Far left, both morally and economically? Personally, I think they would be moderately left in both counts. If the initial spirit of the party (or perhaps Roosevelt's) was kept, it would be Judeo-Christian but in a way that supports womens' rights and the environment. So, maybe no abortions.

I suspect it would be basically like OTL Democrats with respect to economic and social policy, but possibly stronger on the environment and more nationalistic and military-minded in foreign affairs.

Then what would the Democrats be like?

Strategos' Risk said:

Then what would the Democrats be like?

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Like OTL "Reagan Democrats" and "Dixiecrats."

I can see the Bull Moose Progressive Party turning into an American Labour Party. Imagine a larger Green Party running against the moderate right Democratic Party with the Republicans being a third party that has been hijacked by the Christian Right.

Xen said:

I can see the Bull Moose Progressive Party turning into an American Labour Party. Imagine a larger Green Party running against the moderate right Democratic Party with the Republicans being a third party that has been hijacked by the Christian Right.

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More likely that the Christian Right will hijack the Democratic Party in our first-past-the-post system.

FDR would, of course, be a Bull Moose!

in that ATL I could see the bull moose party being a labor party that isn't concerned on taking a liberal stance on social issues. We see it pushign for civil rights but no affirmative action/proabortionism. That sector of the electorate moves to the republican party in thaT ATL. the christian right AND the social democratic/socially liberal left both being marginalized.

The Bull Moose Party seemed (to me) to be more collectivist in terms of economics (or, given how the monopolies had gov't aid in same cases--tariffs, preferential policies, etc, "true-capitalist"), but more conservative in regards to social issues. I don't think TR ever denounced traditional morals as oppressive, for example. The Party was also much more nationalistic; TR wanted to intervene in WWI in 1915.

Hmmm...

Dem Traits: Pro-union, opposition to "crony capitalism"
GOP Traits: Religious undertones, more militaristic foreign policy.

I'm going to assume that TR's legacy leaves a major influence on the Progressives, so they'll never be completely secular and never far-left. He really was an anti-Socialist, after all, though he believed in "socialistic" policies. So, the Progressives won't become as left as the OTL La Follete incarnation in 1924.

The Democrats weren't really right, maybe moderately so. Wilson thought that social engineering through the gov't was un-American. I don't think they'll be completely south-focused, just because of his presidency, will they?

I'd think the Republicans would stay as the WASP-business-establishmentarianist party.