Starting in 1912, the Progressive Movement suffered huge setbacks.
With Woodrow Wilson, one of the foremost Progressives in the Democratic Party denied the party's nomination in 1912, and Theodore Roosevelt declining to run for President on a Progressive ticket, but remaining a popular political organizer, the Progressives were left with no one to turn to but relatively conservative William Taft.
Looking back, the period of 1910-1912 is considered the start of the American Socialist movement that became a persistent streak in American politics, and it remains to this day.
"There is a great giant growing up in this country that will someday take over the affairs of this nation. He is a little giant now but he is growing fast. The name of this little giant is socialism." - Emil Seidel, Socialist VP Candidate in 1912
This idea popped into my head as a subject that interested me and that I felt I could do a little differently. The major setback to my other timeline (which I swear I'll finish if I have to keep writing until I'm 40) was it's incredible detail and major changes in the world's events. Not so major world events change here, not as drastically and not as right away, anyway, and while it will be detailed, it won't be as verbose as my other one.
I hope to do the topic at least some justice though, and hope that it interests me for more than a few chapters, but we'll see how it goes when I'm putting together the first entry to it.
Stay tuned.
