1920 U.S. Presidential Election

[Donerail]

Except tomorrow is apparently now today.

You're unironically using a Red Scare placard to make a point? Hahahahaha!

I'm very disappointed Cathcon hasn't put Overton as a ballot option.

[Donerail]

Except tomorrow is apparently now today.

It's apparent that you hate the improved worsened conditions of working class everyone.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Early Depression. Yay.

Quite the opposite. The depression will be delayed and mitigated (if not prevented) with increased regulation and government oversight of the markets.

That's not what Debs was about. The guy was a socialist, not a New Deal liberal.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

If you want to use this map...

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

If you want to use this map...

You and I both know who controls the map making here.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Now, now, Snowstalker, we all know that Cathcon is the supreme ruler of Atlamerica here.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Anybody still have doubts about effectiveness of my strategy? Two Populist presidents, now a Socialist.

Yes, you didn't get the Populists elected and you got Theodore Roosevelt elected over Robert LaFollette.  As for the "strategy," its shameful and deserves to be condemned regardless of its success or failure.  OTOH, maybe we should sabotage Socialist/progressive third-party primaries

[LastVoter]

Anybody still have doubts about effectiveness of my strategy? Two Populist presidents, now a Socialist.

Yes, you didn't get the Populists elected and you got Theodore Roosevelt elected over Robert LaFollette.  As for the "strategy," its shameful and deserves to be condemned regardless of its success or failure.  OTOH, maybe we should sabotage Socialist/progressive third-party primaries

That's why we passed progressive legislation

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The 1920 United States Presidential Election
In probably the greatest left-wing victory seen in the country since the days of Thomas Jefferson's >70% popular vote victory in 1804, Eugene Debs, on a Socialist platform, was elected President of the United States of America with the first popular vote majority since Samuel Tilden in 1876. As far as anyone knew, a new day had coem in America.

Mr. Eugene V. Debs (Socialist-Indiana)/Mr. Seymour Stedman (Socialist-Illinois) 396 electoral votes, 52.5% of the popular vote
Senator Thomas R. Marshall (Democrat-Indiana)/Governor Alfred E. Smith (Democrat-New York)103 electoral votes, 26.2% of the popular vote
Major General Leonard Wood (Republican-New Hampshire)/Governor John Calvin Coolidge (Republican-Massachusetts) 32 electoral votes, 21.3% of the popular vote

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

I love how that statement implies that Thomas Jefferson was a leftist.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I love how that statement implies that Thomas Jefferson was a leftist.

As opposed to John Adams? Hell yeah. The largely recognized alignment of the time had been that the Federalists represented the land-owners, military, and moneyed interests, the "conservatives". Meanwhile, the Democratic-Republicans represented the lower classes, immigrants, and so on. Yes, the landed gentry did swing to the Democratic Republicans a few years later, but the alignment that was recognized at the time was that the Federalists were conservative and the Republicans the liberals.

[Antonio the Sixth]

While it's difficult to position Jefferson on a left-right spectrum, the Federalists were unambiguously right-wing.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

In 1800, a Connecticut woman who supported the Federalists (though voter would be a bit strong of a word) told a Republican friend of hers to hide her Bible in case Jefferson won (and following that, banned the Bible). "They'd never check your house for it! You're a Republican!" I hope that properly demonstrates how things were back then.