Some of you guys may have seen my Second American Republic infoboxes, if not I'll explain the lore.
The Civil War goes worse for the North, and in 1864, a peace Democrat defeats Lincoln for re-election. Ultimately, the North radicalises, Lincoln wins a second non-consecutive term, and a new...
DLC delenda est
Clinton fails to mount his comeback and Paul Tsongas wins the Democratic nomination in 1992.
Tsongas, an economically conservative technocrat, without Clinton's charm fails to achieve much enthusiasm, but the polling average heading into the election shows a very close race...
I tried to go for resemblance, and thinking that Chalamet looked like a young Trotsky and DiCaprio wasn't a bad look for Lenin (and has supposedly said he'd like the idea of doing a Lenin biopic in the past) got me started. I originally had Cate Blanchett for Krupskaya, but realised that...
November 22, 1963 – a day that would go down in American history. President John E. Hoover, becomes the first American president to be impeached and removed from office for high crimes and misdeameanours, a congressional supermajority convinced that during his long spell as the nation’s top cop...
Anthony Eden claims in his memoirs, that in 1942, FDR had discussed with him the idea of an independent Greater Wallonia comprising of Wallonian Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg and 'a part of Northern France' (for that matter, Eden also claims FDR discussed the idea of balkanising Germany...
Nixon's resignation, the caretaker presidencies of Bankhead and Randolph, the election of Hoover, recession, the Marxist-Lincolnists were a long way from the heady days of the Robeson administration. The factional establishment were torn between reform and keeping the course. Taking up the...
The Churchill presidency would begin strongly, in part because Churchill was rather uninterested in domestic politics and was largely happy to continue the policies of his predecessor Lewis, especially given Lewis' moderating influence on the Laborites, indeed he would win re-election rather...
John L. Lewis was a popular two-term president. Indeed, by having won two terms, Lewis had legitimised the Laborites, so why not run for another? While it hadn't been done before, Lincoln aside, Lewis didn't care much for convention. But the Laborites were a fractious coalition, Eugene Debs, a...
Part 2 of my list of Presidents from the above
Note that President Wallace died on October 25 1924, leading to Speaker Gifford Pinchot serving as president during this lame duck period. Pinchot will still run for re-election as a congressman, and would be re-seated in Congress upon the...
A spoiler 1960 election from my Second American Republic story
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The 1960 election would be the first seriously contested presidential election since the Marxist-Lincolnist faction entrenched its control of the Republican Party after President REDACTED rose to the presidency in REDACTED. The...
A continuation of my others above
I had made an infobox earlier for President Washington's first election but cbf doing every election but here is a list of presidents.
While President Garfield was able to be re-elected in 1888, the ongoing consequences of the Panic of 1887 and the Garfield...
President Garfield entered office as a popular president and would embark upon a number of anti-corruption reforms, a necessity given the Second American Republic was a one-party state, while also seeking for the greater inclusion of African-Americans and Women in the civil service. President...
A series of unlikely victories for the Confederacy in the early stages of the Civil War led to warweariness and the stunning defeat of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 election to copperhead Alexander Long. Long would sue for peace, recognising the independence of the Confederacy.
However, the...