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The first depicts an alternate history in which President [[William McKinley]] was not assassinated, and in the resulting political climate (which marginalized Progressive reformers due to [[Theodore Roosevelt]] never becoming president), socialism becomes much more popular in the United States (additionally, several important schisms that occurred in the socialist movement in our timeline did not occur in this one). After a much more brutal [[World War I]] (made more brutal, ironically, by the well-meaning attempts of internationalists like [[William Howard Taft]] to build stable international alliances), the American populace is radicalized and heavily divided, a powder keg ready to explode, until the Great Depression sparks a revolution in the United States.

* [[Last Stand]]: The Battle of Moscow.

* [[Nepotism]]: Sort of. Patton keeps his socialist views secret from his superiors and surrounds himself with sympathetic officers, presumably assuming that he can use a cadre of loyal officers to his advantage. When he receives orders to enforce the suspension of the Constitution, he leads a rebellion. This is unusual in that it's one of the rare occasions in which nepotism is presented as having led to a positive outcome, and also unusual in that the officers he surrounds himself with are ''not'' depicted as incompetent.

* [[President Evil]]: General MacArthur, full stop.

* [[The Purge]]: Stalin's Soviet Union and Foster's UASR both play it straight. In the latter case, it is treated historically as a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moment.

 

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