What if Teddy Roosevelt won in 1912?

[skar]

-No revival of the KKK and less tense race relations
- A more interventionist states in the economy
- A less strong central government
- The Russian revolution is avoided
- European colonialism endures
It is literally Teddy's meme being liked by all 4 sectors of the political spectrum.

[ShnoogleMan]

The funny thing is that if it was Roosevelt vs Wilson today, both Democrats and Republicans would probably vote for Roosevelt.

[SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand]

Can we all just together celebrate our hatred of the disgusting man that was Woodrow Wilson?

[mountainman]

Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

[ranger]

Every timeline is better than
Damnit Wilson

[arnavkonda]

ww1 would not be called ww1, but the great war

[cielopachirisu]

No destructive Communist revolutions, shorter WW1, no Nazis, probably no atom bomb, no Israeli-Arab military conflict, and an overall stable Middle East?

Possibly even no Sykes-Picot and we could see an Israel peacefully coexisting with Arabs as was originally planned?

Teddy, man, come back!

[reecev]

I like the saying “world war one is the climax of all history”

[sauron]

Man, this sure is an interesting timeline. Almost as interesting as...

*WHAT IF JAPAN BECAME CATHOLIC IN THE 16TH CENTURY?*

[SuperStrikerUS]

This is literally the best thing that could have ever happened in the 20th Century. Wilson getting into power is truly a tragedy.

[robertpolityka]

Theodore Roosevelt might have lived to be in his 70s. He wouldn't have taken extensive trips to Africa or South America.

He might have been elected to a 4th term, 5th term, etc.

[AragornRespecter]

Chuck Norris prays to Theodore Roosevelt in exchange for a portion of his power

[kaiserwilhelm]

So, you're saying that Teddy's world is best world?

[ironraccoon]

Holy shit Teddy Roosevelt was incredible.

[madmotorcyclist]

Considering Woodrow Wilson was responsible for the Clan's revival, the US would have been so much better off.

[jamesthomas]

Roosevelt should have run for a second term in 1908, and not allowed Taft to become president. then his chance to run for a 3rd term in 1912 probably would have been successful.

[garesonc]

Wilson was horrible...graduated income tax(still violates the 14th amendment imho), Federal Reserve and signatory to the Treaty of Versailles(which violated his own 14 Points). Few Presidents did as much damage as he to his own country...maybe no one else did.

[michaelsilver]

My granddad is named Woodrow, named for the president due to a nice thing Wilson did regarding Native service in the military. He's told the story a few times and I never have the heart to tell him what an absolute cancer Wilson was on the country in a bunch of different ways

[jamesbarca]

What about the Federal Reserve Act/income tax? Would Teddy Roosevelt have blocked it (which wouldn't have been hard, since it doesn't seem to have been legally ratified)? That was a huge legacy of Wilson, giving control of our money supply to the central bankers, without which things would have turned out much differently.

[arch]

Woodrow Wilson is the worst president ever. Everything bad in the 20th century is linked to Wilson's anglophilia and the US entering WWI. I like this timeline because it shows that the US could still have intervened in the war and it still wouldn't've been as bad as ours and because Theodore, he hated the name Teddy, Roosevelt is one of the best Americans. He should've been president longer.
Japan would still have attacked China, but they wouldn't have attacked the West. Because Nazi Germany was doing a great job at taking out France and the Netherlands, Japan thought they could roll over their Asian colonies. With them still powerful, Japan would've focused on China.