What would a 1952 Douglas MacArthur presidency look like? Aside from the grandiose Caesarist style of presidential leadership (the opposite of Eisenhower's "hidden hand"), what is likely to be the substantive content of his foreign and domestic policies?
He would inherit the now unpopular...
With a POD anytime after January 1967 (after Reagan's ascension to the California Governorship), how do we get an LBJ vs Ronald Reagan election in 1968 and how would such a contest play out? And what would the succeeding administration look like? The New Deal coalition is fracturing in the...
Like the current POTUS? (Who mind you was pro-choice and pro-gay marriage, and who was the opposite of a decorated four star general and Vietnam war hero.). My guess is that Powell encounters some friction in the primaries but ultimately manages to sail through to the nomination, once GOP...
I would agree that this kind of bargain with the pro-lifers is likely. But I don’t think the intraparty “revolt” if one is to take place will be social conservative in nature as much as it would be a Tea Party/proto-Trump populist movement in reaction to a combination of GOP free trade orthodoxy...
A most interesting scenario but this thread merely asks what happens if Colin Powell is president instead of GWB, preferably without a catastrophic 'Designated Survivor' type national decapitation scenario.
There might very well be a conservative revolt less in the form of a third party but more in the style of a Tea Party movement from the grassroots but I could only see such a thing erupting towards the end of his presidency, when the analogue of the financial crash takes place, the banks are...
What if Colin Powell was president in place of George W. Bush? There are roughly two scenarios that I can envision.
First, he becomes a great or perhaps an above average president: a latter-day Eisenhower who presides over a decade of peace abroad and prosperity at home.
Under this scenario...
Yes, what exactly does 'OP' mean by 'neoconservatives'? Does OP mean the people in the above description (i.e. Weekly Standard) or just economic free market 'neoliberals' (i.e. Hayek-Heritage Foundation, etc.) ? Please make clear, OP. Thanks.
The US would still have been deregulated. The economic trends leading to it had already begun in the 70s, the policy had already been adopted by Carter in trucking, airlines, telecommunications I believe and a few other industries. Without the Reagan coalition, you might not have had the...
One does not have to be a liberal or a Democratic partisan to recognize that the years 2001-2009 were of years of strategic blunders and wasted opportunities in American foreign and domestic policy.
A president came into office at the beginning of that decade promising nation-building at home...
Inspired by recent events in the region. With a POD anytime after the 2013 Australian election, get Paul Keating to make an improbable Churchillian [or Mahatirian] comeback as leader of the ALP and chart a brief outline scenario as to how things would go under his leadership and potential second...
Have Jack Lang stick around longer as Premier of NSW and maybe even gain a wider following throughout the Commonwealth. The 'Lang-isation' of the Labor party and movement pushes conservative and business interests into the arms of the New Guard movement, who mount a coup sometime in the mid-30s...
I give you my abandoned Napoleon II TL, which was about as ephemeral as the Eaglet himself. :( ;)
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/tl-idea-flight-of-the-eaglet.153737/page-2#post-4161305
Good ideas all around. So yes the 'Mao' suit is really just the post-revolutionary attire of China on both the nationalist and communist sides. How about a scenario where Chiang wins the Civil War and in the 1940s and 50s see a period of strengthened economic, political and to some degree...
What would it take for the 'Nehru/Mao/Blofeld' jacket to replace the suit and tie as the dominant formal men's wear suit in the modern world? I'm thinking less 'Red China takes over the world' and more of a general fashion/aesthetic shift in the West and throughout the globe. Probably sometime...