[ SECRET POST #6411 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6411 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why it would nullify a Reagan presidency?

[(Anonymous)]

Because the entire political history of the United States would be totally different. The changes as a result of Hitler not taking power in 1933 and the US not being involved in a land war against a German fascist regime from 1941 to 1945 would be massive and would disrupt the entire timeline of history in the US, such that the context in which Ronald Reagan existed would be completely unrecognizably different.

Just for the most obvious surface-level example, Reagan won the presidency by beating Jimmy Carter; Carter won the presidency by taking advantage of anger at Richard Nixon and Watergate; Nixon became a presidential contender by serving as Dwight Eisenhower's vice president; Eisenhower became president as a result of being Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. So if there's no World War 2, what does that mean for Nixon's political career? What does that mean for the political climate of the US during the 1970s? What does that mean for Reagan?

And that's only the most surface-level element, there would be millions and billions of changes. Think of the massive disruptions of WWII on life on the home front and how big an impact the war and the immediate post-war transition had on American society. Think of how many individual Americans' lives were changed by serving in the war, or living through it. Think how different the whole pattern of international politics would be. It's a butterfly effect - you make one change, and then a whole host of other changes happen as a result of that which might be totally unpredictable.

It doesn't mean that conservatism would necessarily go away. But it *does* mean that Reagan and Reaganism would go away. Maybe the outcome would even be worse than Reagan! But it wouldn't be Reagan, not as he existed in our time-line.