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Herbert Hoover is assassinated by Argentinian anarchists in December 1928. The RNC rejects a Dawes nomination, while Lowden declines to be nominated. Coolidge therefore reluctantly accepts a third term, with VP Dawes replaced by Curtis. As a protectionist, Coolidge undoubtedly signs 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. If anything, Coolidge is far more inept than Hoover, refusing to sign off on the Hoover Moratorium (Hitler gets elected President of Germany in 1932 as a result), vetoing TERA, RFC, Glass-Steagall, federal home bank loans, and Emergency Relief and Construction in turn.
Roosevelt loses the 1928 NY state election to Ottinger, so in 1932, the Democrats nominate a reactionary, e.g. Senator James A. Reed or Governor William H. Murray after a prolonged convention deadlock. Although he wins against a discredited Curtis in November, he replaces Coolidge's 'do-nothing' with slashing spending and tax hikes, disastrously deflating the USD. There is virtually no New Deal, with any liberal/progressive measures passed by Congress either vetoed by Reed/Murray or struck down by the increasingly conservative Supreme Court.
With the Republicans taking back control of both chambers of Congress in 1934, the Farmer-Labor Party under Governor Floyd B. Olson of insurgent western progressives and the Social Justice Party under Senator Huey Long of liberals, trade unionists and socialists and 'people's front' communists are set up to challenge him from the left. Although Reed/Murray manage to narrowly survive a primary challenge due to a disunified opposition and federal patronage, the left-leaning vote ends up so split that the GOP prevails in a landslide in 1936.
The GOP, having engaged in a period of soul-searching since 1932, decide to nominate a progressive in 1936, Senator William E. Borah. Borah decides to appease the Right by naming a conservative as his running mate, Governor Charles A. Lindbergh of New Jersey. With a 1860/1912-style split in 1936, the ticket wins in a landslide. Borah dies a few years early during the lame-duck period, and after a failed attempt to nominate Senator Hiram W. Johnson for President, the GOP decides to settle with Lindbergh.
Olson dies after the election, leading to the now-leaderless Farmer-Laborites fusing together with the Longites to form a 'Populist Party'. With the left-leaning vote now split beyond repair, Lindbergh sails through his Presidency, with stable GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. Despite winning a minority of the popular vote in 1940, Long's Populist Party presidential candidacy, as well as the rudderless Democrats(now entirely shorn of its own left-wing) nominating yet another colourless conservative as their candidate, e.g. Governor Eugene Talmadge, Hearst and Raskob's preferred Democratic candidate in 1936, Lindbergh is re-elected as President, albeit by a much narrower Electoral College margin than Borah's.
Roosevelt loses the 1928 NY state election to Ottinger, so in 1932, the Democrats nominate a reactionary, e.g. Senator James A. Reed or Governor William H. Murray after a prolonged convention deadlock. Although he wins against a discredited Curtis in November, he replaces Coolidge's 'do-nothing' with slashing spending and tax hikes, disastrously deflating the USD. There is virtually no New Deal, with any liberal/progressive measures passed by Congress either vetoed by Reed/Murray or struck down by the increasingly conservative Supreme Court.
With the Republicans taking back control of both chambers of Congress in 1934, the Farmer-Labor Party under Governor Floyd B. Olson of insurgent western progressives and the Social Justice Party under Senator Huey Long of liberals, trade unionists and socialists and 'people's front' communists are set up to challenge him from the left. Although Reed/Murray manage to narrowly survive a primary challenge due to a disunified opposition and federal patronage, the left-leaning vote ends up so split that the GOP prevails in a landslide in 1936.
The GOP, having engaged in a period of soul-searching since 1932, decide to nominate a progressive in 1936, Senator William E. Borah. Borah decides to appease the Right by naming a conservative as his running mate, Governor Charles A. Lindbergh of New Jersey. With a 1860/1912-style split in 1936, the ticket wins in a landslide. Borah dies a few years early during the lame-duck period, and after a failed attempt to nominate Senator Hiram W. Johnson for President, the GOP decides to settle with Lindbergh.
Olson dies after the election, leading to the now-leaderless Farmer-Laborites fusing together with the Longites to form a 'Populist Party'. With the left-leaning vote now split beyond repair, Lindbergh sails through his Presidency, with stable GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. Despite winning a minority of the popular vote in 1940, Long's Populist Party presidential candidacy, as well as the rudderless Democrats(now entirely shorn of its own left-wing) nominating yet another colourless conservative as their candidate, e.g. Governor Eugene Talmadge, Hearst and Raskob's preferred Democratic candidate in 1936, Lindbergh is re-elected as President, albeit by a much narrower Electoral College margin than Borah's.
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