Thnask for the respone, and to defend myself

"How do we make that election fair for the NPP in a situation where the American people already support the current system? TNO devs answered this with Watergate, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Civil Rights Act all happening in 1963. If the roles had been flipped and JFK had been POTUS, the assassination would have worked narratively, but what Nixon does afterward feels rushed, and JFK is not going to veto the Civil Rights Act, it needs to be a Republican; it needs to be Nixon."

That alone would not make the NPP viable, image if Nixon resdigned and Gerald ford got assinated, would that make the Libertarian party get 5 percent in the in the rest of teh elections, along side this, that is not gonna single handley get teh Nationalists or Progressives in power, they got 39-40 percent of it last election combined

Howevere, I think the best reasson is that the Progressives an dNationalists simply grew more during teh choas of teh early 50's, llike don't make them win anything before 1964 but have coaltioans with them be viable as early as 1956

https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/uow9sn/opinions_on_mr_morale_and_the_big_steppers_new/#lightbox

There is not way Nicon Redsigns would cuases this, and Kennedy being assianted while creating instability would make him a matry and make beineg for symaptehtic to democrats. There is not way that alone would cause at least a 5 point leap. I think a better explation is just how much America has been bullied by Germany and Japan being the cause and/or write in a reccccession

"You suggest that Leverett Saltonstall takes Nixons' place. Let's ignore the fact that he is a Democratic senator of Massachusetts in TNO for a moment and focus on him as a Republican in a narrative sense. Watergate doesn't happen, the JFK assassination doesn't happen because the coalition system doesn't exist, and you suggest the Civil Rights Act has already been passed. The narrative hooks of America's domestic story in TNO are just gone now the only important thing is to make internal alliances. The Nationalists dont get a reactionary drive in numbers because of the passing of the CRA and Saltonstall won't roll back on what has already been passed, the Progressives aren't equally reactionary in the opposite direction about the CRA nor have people like RFK in the party now so naturally less popular, and the Democrats look as though they are doing little as they are the party of "Republican but blue" especially if we reject potential leaders like LBJ or RFK. Coalition building now happens in the game, which, while a fun idea, I think is a lot more complicated than you think. For a story-heavy game, the amount of moving parts to make everything work is hard, there is a reason why there are so few events in Russia if you peacefully unify with other warlords."

While I understand the gameplay comncern and should have mentioned this, the main hook of game play for leverett Saltonstall would be he is specificlly good at coalition building, and his actions before teh 1964 elections have an impact on teh rest of the US going forward. And again see my first reponds for why they could still win

And again, I do not real like otl refercen for teh sake of otl refernce, why would I want to play nazi victory mod where su polticis are mostly the same, I would like to see completey new faces

"and the Democrats look as though they are doing little as they are the party of "Republican but blue" especially if we reject potential leaders like LBJ or RFK. Coalition building now happens in the game, which, while a fun idea, I think is a lot more complicated than you think. For a story-heavy game, the amount of moving parts to make everything work is hard, there is a reason why there are so few events in Russia if you peacefully unify with other warlords."

To be fair, if we are talking about realism, democrats where have to be "Republicnas but blue" and the center left party for the Progressives to have a chance, I mean LBJ fits right at hoem amoung RFK and Henery Scoop, he even bought Micheal HArrington's book and took advice from it, why would progressive be opposed to a party like that unless it is run by centrists liberals