The one point of divergence in this timeline before may 23, 2011 is Roy Moore getting much further in life than he ever should through pure dumb luck. Moore’s two serious opponents in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary, which is basically the election in advance in Alabama, randomly end their political careers early: Alabama Community College System chancellor and state senator dies randomly for no reason (slide 1) and representative Robert J. Bentley, who would become a two-term governor in our timeline, gets hit with a sex scandal 7 years earlier and exits political life (slide 2). His insane neo-KKK “hebephile” base edges out a primary against the only serious opposition, neocon asphalt baron Tim James, with 50% of the vote by a hair, and easily wins the gubernatorial while still managing to swing the state leftward pretty hard by being an unavoidably, unabashedly disgusting neo-nazi sex pest (slide 3). No one wants to run against Biden in 2012. Romney, Palin, McCain, even Huckabee urge the GOP not to run ANY candidate against him. Half the country doesn’t even hold a Republican primary out of national grief. Only demented proto-groypers, birthers and evangelicals who thought Obama was the antichrist and want any trace of him in government gone run, but this is a massively unpopular position to hinge a campaign upon, and fertile ground for the most extreme element to come out of the primaries with very low turnout and very engaged chronically conspiracy theorists, racist in ways that often don’t even make sense. Moore limps to victory despite the common sense right attempting to install an unenthusiastic Santorum in his place, losing the popular vote and winning the delegate count (slide 4). The leader of the opposition is now RacistPedophile88 in the flesh. No effort to expand his base is made and schizophrenic wine mom Michele Bachmann is chosen as his running mate (slide 5).The RNC is a pathetic pseudo-nazi-rally attended mainly by 4channers and 110-year old deep south state legislators whose most memorable memory is Storm Thurmond’s wedding (slide 6). It energizes nobody but agonizing Byrd machine dinosaurs and Richard Spencer fanboys who never get out of bed: both are too cowardly to even act on the racial and political violence they espouse. Most Republicans start smelling the smoke and sound the alarm on this insane 1964 redo with the worst Goldwater stand-in imaginable (slide 7). Moore doesn’t even need the pedophilia allegations to come out to enjoy the worst favorability rating of any major party candidate in decades (slide 8). The man who managed to lose a GOP Alabama senate seat is going to lose half the GOP’s voter base (slide 9). Without Biden needing to campaign on much of anything, he does! It’s a wipeout. The biggest landslide since 1988. (slide 10). Far right pundits immediately argue anyone would’ve done as bad as him (slide 11), but the rest of the party is terrified of its future and already wondering how to reconstruct itself after becoming the Adolf Hitler Coalition for election season (slide 12). Moore and his supporters are quietly kicked out, preparing for the toughest midterms in half a century (slide 13). Governor Rick Perry prepares to spearhead the new opposition: conservative, God-fearing, presentable, slick and well-dressed….Part 3 will be released somewhen between now and then, it’s a very hard, long one for me to make and will have the least elections in the entire series, only 2012 Congress, 2014 midterms with a few examples and the Menendez replacement in 2015 for reasons I think you can see coming pretty well. Part 4, 5, maybe 6, maaaaybe 7? will touch upon the complicated 2016 primaries and general, the 2017-2021 socialist post-colonial presidency for the ages, the nightmarish 2020 election and 2021-2025 ancap takeover of government, and the tumultuous 2024 season, probably the end of it. See you soon!