The World 1928 & Beyond (Provisional Title, More To Come When I am Not Sleepy)

[TheRejectionist]

31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Cordell Hull​

 

[TheRejectionist]

But at least let's fucking start!

 

[TheRejectionist]

The idea would be basically what if from 1928 there were at least one republic administration ? I think it would change a lot. WW2 would still happen probably.

 

[WolfBear]

How does Hull win in 1928?

 

[TheRejectionist]

How does Hull win in 1928?

To be frank, I have no bloody idea...yet. I just know what was the original 1928 Democratic Party nominee never had a chance because he was a Catholic. And unfortunatly I am not too well versed into American Political History beyond a few things.

 

[WolfBear]

To be frank, I have no bloody idea...yet. I just know what was the original 1928 Democratic Party nominee never had a chance because he was a Catholic. And unfortunatly I am not too well versed into American Political History beyond a few things.

Have Hughes win in 1916 and then have the 1920s be a Democratic decade.

 

[TheRejectionist]

@WolfBear yeah but we might not get the Nazis or the Economic Depressione then. It would so fucking huge.

I hate to use the term, but I think this Is gonna be a Alien Space Bat sort of thing.

 

[Circle of Willis]

Interested in seeing how this develops. Assuming events prior have developed more or less the same as IRL, 1928 is a tough year for the Democrats - Al Smith being a Catholic was more like the cherry on top of his crap sundae rather than the main reason he got blown out. The Republicans had a booming economy behind them and Herbert Hoover (if indeed he is still the 1928 candidate and not someone else) was still very well-regarded at the time, both domestically and internationally, as both the Secretary of Commerce & a great humanitarian (he directed relief efforts to send millions of tons of food to Europe during & after WW1).

I don't think it's totally impossible for a Democrat to defeat a Republican in '28, but it would be a pretty steep uphill climb. Comparable to Goldwater running against a surviving JFK in 1964, perhaps. Besides having the GOP nominate someone other than Hoover, I would agree with @WolfBear that such a victory could be most easily achieved by changing the president(s) before Hull to someone other than the generally uncontroversial Calvin Coolidge. Maybe Warren Harding (whose administration was rocked by multiple scandals, among which Teapot Dome sent his Interior Secretary Albert Fall to prison) not dying of a heart attack in 1923 and winning re-election in 1924, if you really need a post-WW1 divergence?

 

[Agent23]

The idea would be basically what if from 1928 there were at least one republic administration ? I think it would change a lot. WW2 would still happen probably.

FDR's policies made the great depression worse

A faster recovery might stabilize the international situation and remove some of the wind from Hitler's sales and undermine his Shrinking Markets hypothesis.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Hughes seems interesting. How would the endwar of the Great War be with him?