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 An alternate history timeline located at AlternateHistory.com, written by the user Yes. As the name suggests, it focuses primarily around former US Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern.If you’ve heard of McGovern, it's likely because of his loss to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential campaign. The loss was one of the most staggering landslides in US electoral history, in which the only state he managed to win was Massachusettsnote Though he did also win the District of Columbia. This means that, such as it is remembered, McGovern's legacy is heavily debated. To his supporters, he was a noble but doomed idealist whose sincere and principled stances were thwarted by a flawed campaign, antipathy from his own party, and the cynical machinations of Nixon’s corrupt political machine as it actively sabotaged him at every opportunity. To his detractors, however, he was a dangerously naive and weak ideologue whose pandering and submission to America's enemies would have seriously weakened and even destroyed the United States. His crushing defeat is remembered as the point where the Democratic Party first clamped down on its activist wing so as to prevent a repeat of that disaster, the beginning of a long move to the political center that culminated in the Presidency of Bill Clinton in The '90s. In any case, in our world, whether you love him or loathe him, it’s pretty widely agreed that McGovern's loss was, for one reason or another, practically inevitable.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In the world of McGoverning, however, one Charles Colson has something to say about that.If you’ve heard of Colson, it's likely because, as a senior aide to Richard Nixon, he was knee-deep in all sorts of corrupt activities, including involvement in the Watergate break-in. What's perhaps less well known is that Colson had plenty of other ideas for sabotaging Nixon’s enemies, many of which were... less than rational. In our world, (relatively) saner heads were able to put the kibosh on his more out-there plans, but in this world Colson — thanks to a heady and potent combination of blind fanaticism, lack of sleep, James Bond delusions, and an addiction to caffeine and amphetamines — goes completely off the reservation and decides it would be a good idea to stuff a homemade firebomb into the mailbox of the left-leaning Brookings Institution and raid the files... on the same night as the Watergate break-in.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This, naturally, goes about as well as you'd expect. And so, Charles Colson's arrest at the burning remains of the Brookings Institution leads to a much more intense and much earlier focus on Richard Nixon's corruption, a very different 1972 election, and some serious changes for the life of George McGovern and the whole world...The timeline can be found here.
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 Action Politician: When Salvador Allende, the President of Chile, is targeted in his presidential palace by an assassin, he picks up an AK-47 and goes on the offensive. This is especially ironic because in actual history, he used the same gun to commit suicide after being deposed in a coup d'état in 1973.
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