Timeline Ideas Mega Thread

[MATTROSE94]

An alternate universe in which:

2000: Bush defeats Gore
2004: Bush defeats Kerry
2008: Clinton defeats McCain (Obama loses Iowa Caucus, is reelected to the Senate in 2010 and 2016)
2012: Clinton defeats Romney
2016: Trump defeats Clinton's VP Evan Bayh

And then start the timeline with:

2020: Trump vs. Obama


If that's not a new progressive era for America, then I don't know what is. A left-wing NUT timeline for sure, but if we're going to be an echo chamber here, we might as well commit to it.

There is no way that Donald Trump runs as a Republican in 2016 if Hillary Clinton was elected in 2008.

[MATTROSE94]

For me, I would say that a timeline where Richard Nixon wins in 1960, but is assassinated in 1963 would be interesting. In that timeline, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr would easily win in 1964, but struggle with the Vietnam War, which would result in a John F. Kennedy comeback in 1968. I also assume that Republicans would pass the civil rights laws and that both parties would have somewhat different coalitions today.

[MATTROSE94]

A timeline in which instead of the Cold War being between the US and the Soviet Union, it is actually between the US and Nazi Germany would be interesting as well. The main points of divergence in this scenario would involve Nazi Germany defeating Britain in 1940 and the Soviet Union in 1941 and not declaring war on the US after Pearl Harbor. I assume that Nazi Germany would have ultimately collapsed by 1985 in such a scenario.

[MATTROSE94]

• Robert Taft presidency (1953 - 1961)

• Richard Nixon presidency (1961 - 1963) followed by a Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. presidency (1963 - 1969)

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• Second term for W. H. Taft
• Mitt Romney presidency (2013 - 2021)
• Franklin Roosevelt doesn't run for a third term
• The 22nd amendment is never ratified and Eisenhower wins a third term

I know this is an old post, but could this timeline be created? I would love reading it. I assume Henry Cabot Lodge Jr’s time as President would be very similar to Lyndon Johnson and that he would certainly have beaten whoever the Democrats nominated in 1964 with the 485 Authoritarian NUT map and over 60% of the popular vote. I also think think Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would have been hawkish in Vietnam and that the youth movement would be his downfall even more than with Lyndon Johnson IRL.