Presidents of the United States (U.S. Presidents Throughout the Centuries)

(W.I.P.)
Based off of this thread from alternatehistory.com.
== 46. Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (Democratic) 2021-2029 ==
Same as OTL. 
== 47. Josh Hawley/Kimberly Guilfoyle (Republican) 2029-2033 ==
Josh Hawley was elected after eight years of Democratic control of the Presidency against a Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, with President Joe Biden narrowly fending off an attempt by former President Trump to ascend to the Presidency in 2024. Hawley's presidency would see the Republican Party successfully repeal ACA, would pull the US out of the W.T.O. and W.H.O., and would see the passing of a federal law banning abortion (with caveats being forced on Republicans for the exceptions of rape, incest, or threats to the life of the mother). These divisive policies would see a blue wave in the 2030 Midterms. However, Hawley's last two years in office would see the US fail to repel a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. In spite of a total U.S. and Coalition (Australia, U.K., Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan) victory in the Spratly Islands, the US and Global public would still see it as a loss for the US. Hawley's approval ratings would tank in consequence.
== 48. Jon Ossoff/Michelle Wu (Democratic) 2033-2041 ==
Despite a disastrous Hawley presidency, many Democrats were pessimistic for 2032 after a history of hearbreaking loses. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Senator who narrowly won re-election in 2026 against a red wave, joined with Massachusetts Governor Michelle Wu to propel the Dems to a landslide victory. With comfortable Senate and House majorities, they got to work implementing liberal policies.
The filibuster was drastically curtailed, and while a massive court packing plan failed a more moderate version of universal health care similar to Germany and a 12 week abortion guarantee passed. The minimum wage was increased to $15 after decades of waiting and the death of Justice Clarence Thomas (and later Samuel Alito) allowed the President to shift the court to a 5-4 liberal lean. The GOP faced large amounts of internal division, meaning the Democrats while losing some seats held both houses. An aggressive carbon reduction plan (which mandated Net Zero by 2044) was implemented, although some measures were unpopular. Marijuana was also legalized, although at that point most states had.
The President was re-elected by a larger margin (similar to 1988 vs 2032's 2008), and was able to implement a liberal dream voting rights act. Massive investments in urban renewal and green tech reduced homelessness to record lows. But by far the biggest accomplishment was tax reform.
President Ossoff had done the usual 1-2% increases in his first term, but his new plan was revolutionary. Taking advantage of the massive wealth gap, the President was able to cut taxes on people making under a million dollars while taxing billionaires up to 50%. This left the Democrats with a strong legacy going into 2040.
== 49. Ron DeSantis/Madison Cawthorn (Republican) 2041-2043 ==
Desperate both houses being controlled by the Democratic Party at the time somehow Former Governor, Ron DeSantis of Florida along with Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina managed to win the 2040 Presidential Election. DeSantis would attempt to undo much of former President, Jon Ossoff’s reforms and legislation but he would be stopped by Congress who would later impeach him 2 years later in 2043 being succeeded by his Vice-President, Madison Cawthorn who now faced a supermajority from the Democratic controlled Congress.
== 50. Madison Cawthorn/Lauren Boebert (Republican) 2043-2045 ==
Cawthorn's term in the White House was, to no one's surprised, short-lived, as he was constantly clashing with the Democratic supermajority that now made up Congress, causing major, and mutual, disapproval between the two. It didn't help that the person Cawthorn picked to be his new vice president, Colorado representative Lauren Boebert, was a very controversial figure and well-known for her extreme conservative views. Together, the two tried in vain to make progress for the Republicans, including vetoing bills that were created by the Democratic controlled houses. However, this only caused them to get even more disapproval by the public, who just gave more of their sympathy to the Democrats instead.
They tried to make one last stand in the 2044 election, with Cawthorn and Boebert valiantly running for re-election despite all odds against them, somehow believing that they could still make a last second turn-around. As expected, they failed miserably, and, after leaving office, Cawthorn would be considered by historians to be one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, ranking among the likes of Trump, Buchanan, and Johnson. Cawthorn's disastrous presidency, and the amount of apathy it gave the Republican Party as a result, would also cement what many Republicans had been fearing since Trump's initial loss in 2020 - the Republican Party was falling apart, probably for good.
== 51. Barron Trump/Shahana Hanif (Democratic) 2045-2049 ==
A famous name propelled Barron Trump to the White House, however on the opposite party to his dad. Running as a moderate Democrat from the state of Florida, balanced out with a progressive Congresswoman and former City Council person from Brooklyn, Barron Trump defeated Madison Cawthorn in a landslide, becoming the first person born in the 21st Century to become President, in addition to one of the youngest presidents ever, and having the first Muslim Vice President. Trump set about with some progressive policies, passing a federal law allowing felons who served their terms to vote and imposing a 20% VAT to pay for a pilot "Family Income Assistance Program" which would create a negative income tax for households with working parents.
Trump balanced out his progressive agenda at home with an aggressive foreign policy, championing military alliances with the United Kingdom of England and Wales, European Federation, and Australia, and sending US troops as peacekeepers in the Renaissance Dam War, brokering a peace in favor of the Ethiopians which would also see the US fund efforts to bring fresh water to the Egyptians. His administration would see President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Stav Shaffir travel to Tehran to visit Ayatollah Hassan Khomeini over the disintegration of Saudi Arabia, marking the first time an Israeli and Iranian leader would meet. Trump would also create The Atlantic Free Trade Area, including the US, UKEW, Canada, Republic of Mexico, Republic of Australia, and Republic of New Zealand, lowering trade barriers and making movement between these countries somewhat easier. He would also preside over the US successfully bidding for the 2056 World Cup and would announce the Zeus Program of putting a rover on Jupiter's moon, Europa by 2060 in addition to setting up a permanent US colony on Mars.
In 2048, due to his wife recently giving birth, Trump declined to run for a second term, at least for the time being, stating that his priority was raising a family.
== 52. Shahana Hanif/Aftab Pureval (Democratic) 2049-2053 ==
With Barron out of the race for re-election in the 2048 election, Vice President Shanana Hanif was eager to take up the seat for the Democratic nomination in his place, citing throughout the entirety of her campaign how she would continue carrying out Trump's policies. Needless to say, she was able to safely secure the Democratic nomination, and chose Senator Aftab Pureval - former mayor of Cincinnati and representative from Ohio’s 1st district, and successor of Sherrod Brown in the 2036 Ohio senate election - to be her running mate. The Republican Party, which seemed to be dying a slow, excruciating death after the disastrous presidencies of Hawley, DeSantis and Cawthorn, tried to fight back with the nomination of Florida Governor Matt Gaetz and former New York Senator candidate Elise Stefanik, two far-right Donald Trump supporters who detested Barron's progressive policies and thought of him as a "traitor" to his father's presidency. However, with the massive amounts of apathy and lack of support that the Republican Party had at the time, Gaetz and Stefanik didn't seem to stand a chance.
It should also be noted that due to the disastrous state of the Republican Party at that moment, many other third parties in the U.S. took advantage of this situation to gather more popularity for themselves - the Libertarian Party, which was already the 3rd largest party in the U.S. by registration, now became the 2nd largest party in the U.S., and many Republican politicians, fearing the complete disintegration of the party soon, fled to other conservative-based parties in an attempt to "salvage" their reputations, such as the Constitution Party and the American Independent Party, leaving few Republicans behind in the real Republican Party. The Republicans, once one of the two largest political parties in the U.S., was now practically demoted to a third party, with many other parties, both progressive and conservative, rising fast to take it's place.
Hanif and Pureval won the 2048 election in a healthy margin over Gaetz/Stefanik and the Libertarian ticket of Justin Amash/Arvin Vohra, who managed to (only) win the state of New Hampshire after the party's increase in popularity, making that election the first presidential election in decades to have a three-way vote. As president, Hanif, true to her word, continued the progressive policies that Barron installed and advocated strongly for maintaining peace and balance within the changing Middle East. She also tried to improve the newfound Atlantic Free Trade Area, trying to use it to strengthen their peace with other countries through trade connections - it worked out decently well as the U.S. was able to strengthen it's connections with Australia, New Zealand, and the UKEW. But perhaps the biggest success of Hanif’s presidency was the ratification of the 28th amendment in 2050, which just barely made it pass Congress and decreed that the minimum age requirement to run for president or Vice President would be lowered from 35 years to 30. Pureval also rode on the success of being the first Indian-American and Tibetan-American vice president, using it to advocate for stronger cultural rights throughout the U.S.
== 53. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/X Æ A-Xii Musk (Socialist) 2053-2061 ==
The Democratic Party went into the 2052 elections stronger than ever before, with all polls predicting them to win from the start. Perhaps because of this, the Democratic primaries were some of the most competitive, with the left-wing of the party, headed by former Secretary of Labor under President Ossoff and long-time Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenging President Shahana Hanif for the nomination. Despite many pollers expecting Hanif to easily defeat Ocasio-Cortez in securing the nomination for re-election, an unexpected twist occurred in March of 2052, when Hanif suffered a brief medical episode, triggered by lupus, an autoimmune disorder which she’d been previously diagnosed with as a teen and made public during her time in office, prompting Pureval to briefly serve as acting president for the time being while she recovered. While Hanif made a complete recovery, she decided that she would not run for re-election, as she wanted to focus on her “self-journey” to try and cure her lupus (U.S. medicine has drastically improved by the 2050s, including a groundbreaking experimental cure for lupus developed in 2051).
Hanif’s drop out of the 2052 election came as a complete shock to everyone, who’d been obviously anticipating her to win re-election in a landslide. However, with her out of the picture, the Democrats eventually had to turn to the runner up in the primaries, Ocasio-Cortez, as her replacement, even if she wasn’t the choice they’d been wanting. Her prior challenge to Hanif had left a mark the left-wing of the party, some pundits comparing her to her former mentor, the late Senator Bernie Sanders.
Senator Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign was famous for calling out President Hanif’s political and economic reform policies, claiming that the new political landscape required a deep reform of the political process too, and also called for more concrete actions in regard to climate change and ever-increasing income inequality. On the foreign policy front, President Hanif had opposed the People's Republic of China, which had become the foremost economic power in the world, especially in regards to their annexation of Outer Manchuria in the aftermath of the collapse of the Russian Federation, and their intervention in North Korea, all of which had occurred starting in 2050. Relations with the European Federation also worsened somewhat in the last few mo the before the election, as it began to pursue its own separate interests.
With Ocasio-Cortez as the apparent lead for the Democratic Party nomination, her campaign seemed to go off decently well until it abruptly hit a brick wall when Vice-President Aftab Pureval, disapproving of the situation, decided to launch his own candidacy in May of 2052. Despite being a rather last second candidate, Pureval earned a large number of endorsements from Democratic lawmakers who opposed Ocasio-Cortez’s candidacy, including President Shahana Hanif herself, driving a lot of support away from Senator Ocasio-Cortez and kicking her off the top spot for nomination as Pureval took that place instead. Infuriated at this turn of events, she announced her resignation from the Democrats and decided to continue her campaign for the presidency under the banner of the Socialists — once known as the DSA, the Socialists were perhaps the one organization capable of mounting an effective national campaign, after all, they had decades of organizing experience, and the allegiance of several major unions and activist organizations. Her new campaign accused the Democrats of having lost the radical reformist spirit of the Ossoff presidency, and of wanting to establish a corporate one-party state over the USA. "I will not become legitimize a choice, a crowning, which has already been made."
Senator Ocasio-Cortez' campaign became immensely popular, specifically among the youth of the country. Her announcement of youth activist icon X Æ A-Xii Musk as her running mate helped her gain an edge against the other party candidates, while all while pundits shook their heads and decried the "return of populism" (Musk would also be the youngest person on a presidential ticket at only 32 years old). While Vice-President Aftab Pureval assured his donors that he represented continuity and stability, Senator Ocasio-Cortez promised radical political and economic reform unlike that of the Hanif presidency.
The 2052 election wound up becoming one of the most tense and competitive ones since the 2016 election, and would redraw the political landscape of the nation. While Vice-President Pureval held a considerable polling lead at the start, the turning point came when former President Jon Ossoff endorsed Senator Ocasio-Cortez. Most of the states with large minorites, such as the southwestern states with Hispanics, or the southern states with African Americans, voted for Senator Ocasio-Cortez and the Socialists, and were decisive in turning the scales in their favor. Thus, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the 53th President of the United States. Other candidates in the election included the Libertarian Party ticket of Keenan Dunham and Caleb Q. Dyer and the Constitution Party ticket of Josh Mandel (who’d fled the Republican Party while it was falling apart in the 2040s) and Ben Haverford (fictional person), neither of which stood a chance as Dunham/Dyer only won the state of New Hampshire (now nicknamed “The Libertarian State” after voting for two Libertarian candidates in a row) and Mandel/Haverford only won the states of Missouri and West Virginia - even the once faithful red Texas, which now held one of the biggest Hispanic popularities in the U.S., voted for Ocasio-Cortez/Musk.
President Ocasio-Cortez' first term was eventful, ratifying not one, but TWO more major amendments into the U.S. constitution within her first two years of being in office - the 29th Amendment, ratified in July of 2053, saw the abolition of the electoral college, meaning the President of the United States would be elected through popular vote in all future elections, with a run-off required in case no candidate reached 50% of the vote. It also allowed the removal of a sitting President to occur through a simple 2/3rds majority vote of the legislative.
As if the growth spurt of third parties in the last few years wasn’t large enough, the 29th Amendment caused the U.S. political system to burst with varieties of different political parties and ideologies, something which became most evident during the 2054 midterms, which saw the most politically diverse makeup of congress in decades, as a number of Libertarians, Greens, Constitutions, Reforms (from the Reform Party), and even Justices (from the Justice Party) gained political representation in Congress. Democrats still held a majority of the seats though, with Socialists in a distant second. With the Socialists so far behind, they required a coalition with the Democrats to continue their ambitious reform programme. During the second half of her first term, President Ocasio-Cortez focused on economic reform, and the 30th Amendment was passed in January of 2055, just days before her 2nd full year of being in office. This enshrined in the constitution the right of all the people to profit of the labour of mass automation, as well as the right to education, healthcare, and housing.
In foreign policy, President Ocasio-Cortez was criticized for being too soft. As the interests of the United States and the European Federation diverged, she pulled back all troops from the old continent. She lifted the hundred year embargo off Cuba, and reapproached the People's Republic of China. She also faced a complicated an changing international political landscape, with the former Russian Federation having devolved into warring states and all that implies in regards to nuclear security, the mass distruptions caused through the world by climate change, and the rise of dangerous ideologies such as ecofascism and transhumanism. Despite this, President Ocasio-Cortez managed to squeeze out a re-election victory in the 2056 election, defeating the Libertarian ticket of Erik Johnson (son of former governor and 2016 Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson)/Arvin Vohra and the Constitution ticket of Lance Gooden/John E. James.
President Ocasio-Cortez’s second term was almost as eventful as her first, overseeing the ratification of the 31st Amendment to the Constitution in November of 2057. This amendment, otherwise known as the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment, repealed the natural born citizen requirement for people to run as U.S. president, and allowed naturalized U.S. citizens to run for president. This amendment opened many new doors for people who could run for president of the United States. In January of 2059, Ocasio-Cortez also signed off on a bill approved by Congress, that stated that the legal right to women's abortion should be upheld within the U.S. constitution. The bill served as extremely controversial to the more conservative members of Senate, but despite this, the SCOTUS upheld the bill's constitutionality anyways, thus serving as a low blow for the conservatives. Not only did the passing of this bill make AOC become more disliked by the conservatives in Senate, but her foreign policy, just like her last term, was still seen as weak and ineffective, not seeing much, if any at all, improvement. Her weak foreign policy as well as signing of the abortion bill sparked massive overall controversy that nearly overshadowed her 31st amendment victory.
== 54. Chinuah P. Achebe/Kena T. Ales-Bowen (Justice) 2061-2066 ==
Ocasio-Cortez and Musk were relatively popular domestically and both ran again on the Socialist ticket. However, 2050 had marked the start of yet another era of foreign policy. Developments for which seeds had been sown in the early 2020s came home to roost, but other developments started in the 2030s or 2040s only added to them. Among those was climate change which, after a renewables boom in the 2020s and another short boom during the Ossoff Presidency, wasn't really tackled yet. Development of true AI had not taken off despite the late-2030s boom as AIs could indeed perform many, even complicated, tasks and replaced significant numbers of jobs in the labour market, but even by the 2050s no successful "Artificial Likeness" (i.e. an AI which not only replicates the intelligence level of a human, but includes the emotional element) had been developed, and although many AI routinely passed the Turing test, Neo-Turing or Seiwald Tests still posed a significant challenge. And in the 2040s, life sciences in the form of genetic enhancements and 3D printed as well as lab-grown no-rejection transplants became viable and, soon after, affordable. This soon extended not only to inner organs like kidney, liver and heart, but also to replacement limbs.
During the Ocasio-Cortez presidency, genetic modification technologies not only enabled life sciences to cure prepositions for many diseases (though it was not yet possible to completely prevent diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson as spontaneous development is still possible) and mRNA technology, for the first time widely used in 2020-23 to vaccinate against COVID-19, made cures for most known diseases possible. Genetic Modification Technology enabled humanity to create "designer babies" who could be chosen for traits like hair colour, skin colour etc. (not character traits, though), but this was by far not the most controversial part of GMT. It may have been until 2054, but in this year, Kantés company Mansa Musa Modification (MMM) Inc., named after the incredibly wealthy Songhai Emperor and headquartered in Madrid, celebrated a breakthrough which made it possible to genetically modify humans to be more resistant to heat or drought, lless prone to dehydration or starvation.
GMT was also the field which the first trillionaires made their massive fortunes on, among them the (in 2054) just 29-year-old Sekou Kanté. Sekou Kanté, when he was 15 years old, was hailed as one of the hottest football (soccer) prospects ever to have lived and moved to Real Madrid - until he suffered a severe accident involving a self-driving car and a self-driving bus in Madrid, losing both legs. Kanté and his parents, with the help of former players turned investors(chief among them a group around Kylian Mbappé and Youssoufa Moukoko), helped develop fully functional no-rejection limbs sufficient for even professional sports. A hero of all disabled, Kanté did return to a football pitch for Real Madrid when he was 20. When Sekou Kanté retired from football with 29, he was already a trillionaire, mostly from his investments and shares in MMM, Inc.
Several Supreme Court rulings also ruled in favour of genetic modification. Richards v. Mississippi (2050) ruled that "health improving genetic modification" is the right of every American and Wang v. K (2051) strengthened the rights of those modified to exhibit a certain physical trait, especially regarding antidiscrimination, soon to be followed by Siano v. Federal Health Deciding Commission (2054) which made "health improving GMT" eligible for Federal Health payments (but explicitly ruled out "cosmetic" GMT and GMT "not proven useful"). However, Faulkner v. Apple, Inc. (2057), signalling a turn in genetic modification jurisprudence, strengthens the rights of the genetically non-modified, forbidding workplace discrimination and non-employment purely on the base of genetic information and Palmer v. Minnesota (2059) strikes down a law of Minnesota which made genetic screening and, if detected, modification mandatory in the case of a "predisposition to debilitating heart, liver, bowel or kidney disease".
By the mid-2050s, parts of the world became truly uninhabitable and some people and nations thought of radical solutions. These included transhumanism, i.e. an idea and later ideology which includes - in its more radical forms - mandatory enhancement of humans (less radical forms of Transhumanism just advocated enhancement) to adapt them to increasing climate change, but also ecofascism, i.e. an ultra-nationalist and ultra-luddite nonadaptationist approach which wanted to tackle climate change itself, i.e. greenhouse gas emissions, by all means possible (explicitly including authoritarian and totalitarian measures). The third approach revolved around old-school nationalism sometimes bordering on neofascism.
Anyway, China had exploited the fact that the Russian Federation collapsed into a succession crisis after the death of Sergey Shoygu in 2049, which China exploited in 2050, taking the Far East (i.e. Outer Manchuria) and installing puppet regimes of Sakha and Siberia. In the same year, pro-democratic protests in North Korea against Kim Kyong-ho "required" an "intervention", and thanks to the at most 1990s tech level of most of the North Korean army, the twenty-fourth province was quickly taken.
Rapprochement under Ocasio-Cortez sorta worked until in 2056, the openly Transhumanist "New Mao" Zhen Xieren became Paramount Leader of China. Many observers had expected it after he had been made Paramount Leader of the Xinjiang section of the Communist Party of China in 2041 under Chen Quanguo (Paramount Leader of China 2027-2044) and was not even under dispute, let alone put out of office, under "reformist" Paramount Leader Zhang Su (2044-2056). AOC continued to try rapprochement, but the 2058 midterms and even more the 2060 election showed that she was viewed as far too soft on foreign policy. The European Federation with Reinier van Lanschot as Prime Minister had taken a harsher anti-Chinese and anti-Transhumanist stance, which even led to relations with the US worsening.
Voters continued to swing back to right-wing parties, and the most right-wing party was the Justice Party. Being "right-wing" here mostly means taking a firm stance against radical forms of transhumanism, especially against mandatory genetic modification, and for the rights of unmodified people. GMT for curing or preventing diseases was accepted by all but the most radical elements of the Justice and Constitution parties. Economically, both these parties are fiscally conservative and free market liberal to libertarian, the Constitution Party being somewhat more Libertarian. Despite AOC and X Æ A-Xii Musk making it into the runoff, it was the Justice Party ticket of Chinuah Achebe (J-GA)/Kena T. Ales-Bowen (J-WA) - the latter the first trans person on a winning ticket - who won the election runoff decisively.
Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan (2061) and Shristi A. Singh (2064) died during the Achebe Presidency, which also meant the Supreme Court - from having been turned rather left-wing under the Ossoff Presidency (when Clarence Thomas died in 2034 and Samuel Alito in 2040) - became right-wing once again in the 2060s - and important rulings continued! Parejo v. Arizona upheld an Arizonan state law banning "any genetic modification or use of GMT not evidently useful for the modified person's health or the health of at least one of his offspring", leading to several more states enacting similar laws. Subsequently, Keita v. World Athletics and USOC confirmed Faulkner v. Apple, Inc. and upheld the right to ban those athletes genetically modified to enhance dispositions useful in professional sports from participation in the Olympics.
In the invasions of Russia and the intervention in North Korea, the effects weren't that visible, but as China intervened in the Pakistani Civil War on the side of the government (2062), the world saw soldiers in combat who, though not being stronger or more intelligent than usual (some might have been stronger than they seemed), used less food and needed less water or who could resist higher wet bulb temperatures than normal unmodified humans. The world also saw wounds healing faster and some suspected that immune systems had been enhanced to fight disease. Radical transhumanism, fully enacted in a dictatorship, was at work.
India on the other hand was officially still democratic, but in reality, it was an autocratic to authoritarian Hindutva nationalist to fascist dictatorship. Elements of ecofascism existed, for example a near-complete ban on not fully biodegradable plastics and of course a ban of all genetic modification (secretly, elites did have their genomes modified to eliminate predispositions for the worst diseases) and on most mRNA vaccines, but it was mostly conventional jingoist nationalism. The (umpteenth) Myanmari Civil War was a stage of proxy warfare from 2058 onwards, but it should get worse and worse.
Conflicts in Africa had remained a constant throughout the 21st century, but now there were actual Sino- and Indospheres in Africa (as well as a Russosphere and a "Eurosphere), but the Russosphere was taken over by China with the collapse of the Russian Federation. And in 2059, another civil war started in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda, the East African Union State (EAUS) including South Sudan, and Nigeria had notably become (eco-/neo-)fascist and radically antitranshumanist. Rebels in Katanga rose up against labour exploitation, and the pro-Chinese DRC government cracked down on these as it, de jure still communist, was supposed to be the first non-exploitative government on Congolese soil. In response, "communist" (read: technocratic transhumanist) rebels were supported in Uganda. A "military coup" toppled the Kagamist government in Rwanda.
In Asia, with the help of Thailand as an ally, Chinese forces landed troops on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, starting a proper Sino-Indian War. On March 12, 2063, Chinese forces breached the isolation of North Sentinel Island. Indian forces invaded Pakistan and Arunachal Pradesh the day after. Warfare in Central Africa, India and Pakistan killed several hundreds of thousands. But soon after, shortly after the 2063 FIFA World Cup held in Turkey and Azerbaijan (the 2038 World Cup was moved to 2039 due to a COVID-type epidemic which in the end remained limited to Southeast Asia), a novel disease broke out. After an incubation time of 14 to 28 days, in which you are already infectious, it begins with COVID-like/flu-like symptoms, regressing after several days. In almost 40 % of cases, though, after five to ten days of almost no symptoms, haemorrhagic fever and in no less than 24 % of symptomatic cases death follows.
The Sino-Indian war mostly stops at status quo ante, but during the pandemic (officially called BVID-63, though mostly known as Tayra Fever or Mexican Haemorrhagic Fever) it becomes apparent that the fatality rates for genetically non-modified and genetically modified people are significantly different: 73% of those genetically modified (among those, 92% of those specifically modified to have a more competent immune system) died after developing haemorrhagic symptoms (which occur in 40-50 % of detected cases) while "only" 41% of those genetically unmodified died after haemorrhagic symptoms occurred. Those who were subject to GM treatments more often suffered a cytokine storm. Even purely cosmetic genetic modification did have a negative effect, whereas mRNA or other vaccinations, despite being commonly suspected by anti-vaxxers, had no significant influence. Young children below 11 years of age suffered only a 14% fatality rate, otherwise, age had not too much of an influence, preexisting conditions only insofar as they affected the immune system (for example those with autoimmune diseases).
The Mexican Haemorrhagic Fever pandemic, over the approximately two years (June 2063 to August 2065) of its most lethal phase (lethality decreased somewhat) killed approx. 3,5-4% of the world population, most of them in the Americas, Europe and Asia, making it the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu and 200 times as lethal as COVID-19. By 2065, most states of the world were weakened, many crippled, and several close to collapse. The latter group of course included Mexico, but also the People's Republic of China and several nations of South and Southeast Asia.
The European Federation had turned radically antitranshumanist - not fascist or ecofascist, but it had turned into a rather illiberal democracy and banned genetic modification altogether, as well as the European Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe banning the Transhuman Union, but also the Socialist Party of Europe on the grounds that they "advocated policies endangering the constitution and security of European citizens". MMM, Inc. as well as Sekou Kanté himself had to file for bankruptcy in October 2063, followed by several more GMT companies. The GMT and life sciences bubble completely burst, dragging the world economy deeper than it ever was, even deeper than during the Great Depression. Unemployment rates - normally at 18-22 % due to automation - soared to 34-42 % in the US as of October 2065! This is also the reason why a vaccine was only developed after two years.
While banning genetic modification succeeded in much of Latin America - and the Mexican government even fell to radical neofascists who started a campaign of "genetic cleansing" not infrequently turning into "augmentocide", nothing too dissimilar happened in Colombia - and of course in most of non-Chinese Asia - the Natural Humanity and Species Preservation Act 2064 was struck down as unconstitutional in a surprise ruling in Matelloni v. United States, though the ruling explicitly upheld state-level bans on genetic modification. Immediately though, a constitutional amendment was proposed to that effect and enacted on October 22, 2065, with even some Socialists voting for it in both houses. Chinuah Achebe and Kena T. Ales-Bowen were reelected in the first fifty- (or fifty-two?) state landslide in US history and with a massive 72,4 % of the vote going to the Justice Party, having provided stable and reasonable leadership in the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Zhen Xieren's China - despite having no part in the outbreak of the pandemic (many conspiracy theorists, fundamentalist religious movements independent of their base religion, and the most radical anti-transhumanists do suspect so though) - became an international pariah together with Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (both powers in their own right, albeit regional ones) and any other nation with an openly pro-transhumanist government. Massive sanctions were enacted by especially the EF and most Latin American nations, soon followed by the US.
China was closer to civil war than most people suspected as uprisings and insurrections broke out all over the nation even during the height of the pandemic in August 2064, and while the first series of uprisings was crushed, international sanctions and the freely falling economy propelled a second, even bigger wave of uprisings and rebellion in China. By the Arusha Bombing, China was commonly seen as in civil war - and India, despite all woes, occupied not only Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, but also Tibet in May 2066.
With the vaccination campaign against Mexican Haemorrhagic Fever going well in 2065-66 and at least conventional pharmaceutical companies (like a certain BioNTech, which had never delved into genetic modification or augmentation) recieving investment and funding again, Chinuah Achebe and Kena T Ales-Bowen attended the G12 summit (an expanded G7) in Arusha, East Africa with most of their cabinet. On July 29, 2066, a powerful bomb (or several of them) destroyed the conference hotel in Arusha and killed most participants of the G12 summit, including all involved heads of government, namely Achebe, Ales-Bowen, Paul Loeper and Vasile Fieraru as Chief and Deputy Chief Minister of the EF, Mukul Dristi as President of India, Mário Borges de Ávila as President of Brazil, Mzwakhe Mhlaba as the President of South Africa, Theodore Hill as Prime Minister of Canada, Kishimoto Ichiyo as Prime Minister of Japan, Park Tae-Je as Prime Minister of South Korea, Lâm Phước Sơn as General Secretary of the CP of Vietnam, and Akinyi Atiende as President of the East African Union State, together with most of their cabinets. Zhen Xieren and the entire Chinese delegation had been notably excluded from this summit.
Of course, most people suspected transhumanists - or even China directly - behind the bombing and many demanded an invasion of China. 
== 55. Aaron Fardin/Kyle Wilkinson (Libertarian) 2066-2073 ==
With the death of President Achebe and Vice President, the United States and much of the world were pulled into a crisis. the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aaron Fardin (b. 2006) and elected Kyle Wilkinson (b. 2019), senator from Oregon, would immediately become the President and Vice President as in the Presidential Succession Line. They would also become the first Libertarian Party member to become president. With several leaders of the world dead in the bombing, the world was furious over who were the culprits. Many saw the Chinese government is involved in the bombing. In the US, many were angered, with Congress considering declaring war on China. The Chinese government denied this bombing, however, evidence was discovered that the Chinese government was aware of the plans and didn't act upon them. Eventually, Hardin, while not a fan of going to war with China, was forced to agree with congress and so Just two weeks following the bombings, the United States declare war on China. Several other countries, mainly the ones whose leaders were killed in the bombing. A coalition was launched with the countries now at war with China and would invade the coastline of China. The rebellions in China would also see a large amount of aid being sent from the coalition, with money, weapons, and food. The conflict would last for around a year, during which heavy fighting along the coastline would see millions of Chinese and Coalition forces killed. Several cities in China, already pretty damaged by the rebellions would be pretty much bombed out. By the end of the year, Rebel forces captured Beijing and Coalition forces captured Nanjing. This effectively caused the CCP to collapse and the government surrendering. The New Federation of China is founded as an attempt at a Liberal Democracy like how Sun Yat-Sen envisioned a century and a half ago.
Although the war in China ended, an estimated 7 million people died in the conflict. Thousands, if not a million Americans were killed in the conflict, surpassing the civil war as the deadliest war in American history. The country would be scared by this conflict. President Fardin after the war ordered an immediate withdrawal of all American personal not wanting to see an occupation, especially considering how the US dealt with occupations in the past century. Support for transhumanism in the US would also rise with many Veterans in need of transplants as well as genetic modification being used in it.
Domestic Policy-wise, with the end of the war, the country had to face a large veteran population, as well as the economy in shambles thanks to the conflic, which would also see the rise of unemployment and a homeless crisis. Fardin wanted to take a hands-off approach to deal with it as well as having the government not involved in the housing market believing it is what causes the homeless crisis. This was meant with a mixed reaction with some praising the decision and others hating it. The issue of Transhumanism continues to be a controversial issue among Americans however following the war with China, most Americans would hold a more positive view of it than before it. Another issue would arise being over AI and them holding the same rights as Humans. This remain an issue in the government even after Fardin left office.
The colonization of Mars and the Moon (Luna) would also see the rise in many nations across the world, with the US being one. Colonies would be established across the Moon and Mars, with the US establishing Armstrong, New Plymouth and Madison establish on the Moon and New Jamestown, Jefferson, and Viking on Mars. Thousands of people from Earth would migrate to these colonies in hopes of more high-paying jobs. By the end of Fardin's presidency, the population of the Martian colonies would be 5,600 and 7,000 in the Lunar colonies. 
With the Mexican Haemorrhagic Fever pandemic ending, the country would be changed how it treats its medical system. New reforms are created in order to help prevent further outbreaks of new diseases. Foreign policy-wise, relations with Europe greatly improve thanks to the Chinese War (I'm going, to be honest, I don't know what to call the conflict). Although the European view on Transhumanism did relax a bit, they remain for the most part Anti-Transhumanist. In China, the new government and the US made plans for cooperation between the two nations and the US helped to aid them in the reconstruction of their land. 
By the end of his first term, Fardin remain a divisive figure in American politics and due to the 22nd Amendment, he was unable to run for a second term.
== 56. Steven Armstrong/Samuel Rodrigues (Libertarian/PATRIOTs) 2073-2077 ==
The 2072 Election was by every definition of the word ‘unconventional’. With President Fardin out of the running, the Libertarian Race became an open running, with whoever would emerge the Victor seen as likely to also gain the Presidency against their likely opponents in the Justice Party. While numerous contenders entered, Senator Steven Armstrong of Colorado would easily emerge the victor despite accusations of corruption in relation to mechanical augmentation companies, he had a vested interest in. 
While the Justice primaries went without incident, nominating Associate Justice Uiara Dina Strange without contest, in an unusual move, numerous parties, most left leaning, fearing an ‘almost certain’ runoff between the individually stronger Justice and Libertarian nominees, would form a ‘fusion coalition’ with shared primaries for both the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Barron Trump, having launched a return to politics two years previous, winning the Florida Governorship in a landslide, would coast through the nomination process with ease on a far more progressive platform than days past.
Joe Biden IV, Great Grandson of President Joe Biden, a Veteran of the Chinese War and Pro-Transhumanist Activist would manage to secure a far less overwhelming victory to become the running mate to the Son of the man his Great Grandfather beat. Running on the relatively minor ‘Peace’ banner- a largely isolationist party with only limited national representation on the East Coast, he’d manage to narrowly beat out numerous contenders including Senator McGill (Democratic-NM) and Governors Bartlet (Socialist-WY) and King (United Farmers-SD).
While the general election competition between former President Trump (Democratic/Fusion Coalition-FL), Senator Armstrong (Libertarian-CO) and former Associate Justice Strange (Justice-PR) was seemingly set to still be a tight race to enter into the Runoffs despite the formation of the Fusion Coalition, Senator Armstrong would jolt ahead in the final days of the campaign after an attempt on his life during a Official Capacity Visit to Pakistan. Mortally injured in the attack, Armstrong, already a vocal proponent of augmentation as an alternate to genetic manipulation would soon become a major showcase an experimental augmentation which, if successful, would save his life. Emerging from the hospital room on the day before the election, when asked if he had anyone to thank after his close brush with death, he simply replied; “NANOMACHINES, SON!”
Senator Armstrong would take the early lead over President Trump and Justice Strange in the polls, Trump and the former Justice ending up in a race for second place . Armstrong would secure 23.2% of the vote, with Trump and Strange garnering 21.3% and 21.2% of the Vote respectively. It would be a former President and a Senator facing off for the Presidency. Armstrong‘s campaign team would model a large part of their campaign after the father of Trump, including the long retired slogan of “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” as well as taking an isolationist stance despite the Libertarian Party initiating the Invasion of China. Trump, outside of the politically favourable arena in Florida, would stumble. Senator Steven Armstrong would be elected 56th President of the United States with 51.3% of the Vote.
Inaugurated to great fanfare, President Armstrong would be faced with a multitude of issues on the International Stage, but most prominent of all would be the rising tensions between the European Federation and the United States over the issue of transhumanism. Armstrong, having already run relatively pro-transhumanist campaign despite recent events, would grow to be a more and more fierce advocate of transhumanism over his term. Despite his isolationist rhetoric, after an attack on the American Consulate in Shanghai in late 2073, he’d announce a “limited military operation” to “terminate the Terrorist threat in China”, mainly focusing on the New People’s Liberation Army, a Neo-Maoist group. Hoping to quickly end the conflict, the President would introduce the Maximum Capacity policy, requiring anyone upon enlistment to receive combat-capable modifications- effectively turning the American Military into one of the first to have a considerable cyborg contingent- only seen in a limited capacity in previous conflicts. The MCP would be challenged from multiple sides of the political spectrum, however, the issue would not be raised in the Supreme Court for over a year until Biden v. United States saw it ruled as unconstitutional. Despite this, the practice remained in effect through discrimination towards non-augmented soldiers in terms of promotions.
This was one of the key points which led to the Manifesto of Humankind that would be published by the European People’s Council of the Unmodified, a scathing condemnation of the United States Government. It would mark a major turning point as soon after, as at an international rights conference in the One Universe International Center, a bomb would go off, killing a number of major Transhumanist activists, amongst several hundred civilians and Four Members of the Supreme Court. While decried by many anti-Transhumanists as continuing a cycle of the violence which started back in 2066, it would spark a major crisis after an investigation by the US Government found the EPCU responsible for the attacks. Handed an ultimatum by president Armstrong, the Europeans rejected the results of the investigation, with President Laura Frederikson declaring that “If the cost is war- so be it!”. Within a month, the Atlantic War had begun.
While initially expected to be a long conflict, Cyborg forces would prove highly effective in countering the European Forces. ‘Spain would be taken from the anti-Transhumanist forces within three months, southern France within Six, Brussels within a year’ a general reminisced. Yet, President Armstrong would continue advancing a wartime agenda, forming the ‘PATRIOTs’ coalition with other Pro-War parties going into the midterms. Most notably, the Socialist Party would enter into the coalition, and becoming a major piece of the War Industries Nationalization Act, which despite being introduced by the sole representative of the minor Floridian Communist Party, would be buoyed by a surprise endorsement of President Armstrong, who called the act ‘a tragic necessity’ for the sake of the war effort.
it would take until after the midterms, where the President’s Coalition secured a surprisingly strong victory, but the WIN Act would be passed into law- bringing all war related industries under government control. While challenged in court, the ‘necessity of the times’ would be raised consistently it’s defenses, with it consistently being upheld, including by the Supreme Court. By 2076, over 60% of Europe would be in American hands, however while President Armstrong declined to seek a second term in the midst of the war, simply saying “It’s in the hands of the American People, now”. After an… eventful Presidency, it’s the second time a Libertarian President has declined to seek the Presidency again… but the future of Europe hangs in the Balance, as Cyber Warfare is given a new definition, and the world looks a whole lot different.
== 57. William A. Jol/Maria Arreola Rodriguez (Socialist/Fusion Coalition) 2077-2085 ==
The 2076 election looked to be another landslide for the Libertarians. Some progressives held out hope for voter-fatigue to set in and carry one of their own to the White House but that was not the case in most early polling. Even the Socialist Party had jumped onto President Armstrong's PATRIOTs coalition. It came as quite a surprise when President Armstrong declined to seek a second term in office as his approval ratings were quite high due to the war, despite pleas from members of his own party. Anyways, it began to seem that no matter who the PATRIOTs coalition nominated now would win the upcoming election in an apparent landslide.
All was not well in Armstrong's presidency however when the country dipped into a recession in September. Coinciding with the recession news came to light that both President Armstrong and Vice President Rodrigues, the Libertarian/PATRIOTS coalition presidential nominee, had plotted the assassination of President of Pakistan Farooq Salam by paying off Muslim terrorists to attack the air base he was at right before his arrival. It was also revealed that the bombing of the One Universe International Center was a false-flag attack committed by the United States government under orders by President Armstrong in order to incentivize a war with the radically anti-transhumanist European Federation. The bombing had also allowed President Armstrong to stack the Supreme Court with his lackeys since four Associate Justices were present and killed in the bombing. After all this was revealed to the public Armstrong delivered a speech hoping to improve his approval ratings, which had dropped below 20%, where he refused to apologize for "protecting American values against all of its opponents". 
The last straw was the release of a cellphone recording of Armstrong admitting to having connections to an illegal private military security company that utilized cyborg soldiers with known ties to international terrorists and criminals. He later stated in the same recording that he did not care for right and wrong or the facts, just as long as people believed their spin on the story. Once Armstrong had even blatantly called for a Second American Revolution and compared himself to a widely known radical pro-transhumanist terrorist group in a conversation with his VP. Armstrong had to go before a grand jury in October just before the election as it seemed all of the many scandals might just put him behind bars after he left office. It seemed the recession had not only tanked his own approval ratings but his Vice President's and the whole PATRIOTs coalition. The PATRIOTs coalition broke apart as many squabbling factions abandoned Armstrong and Rodrigues.
Enter Congressman Will Jol. Born in southwestern Ontario, Canada on August 12, 2004 to a Portuguese mother and a half-Dutch father, Jol spent much of Joe Biden's presidency in high school, university, and law school, later choosing to move to the Bronx in New York City to join a famous law firm as a personal injury lawyer, after passing the bar exam of course in 2029. Jol first chose to enter politics in 2034 as a Democrat when he ran for and was elected to the AOC's old seat in the House of Representatives (he successfully primaried the man who replaced her in 2023, after her election to the Senate, similar to her own 2018 victory) at 30 years old after five years as a big shot New York City lawyer who fought a lot of high profile cases despite his little experience and was known for his vast knowledge and understanding of the law and United States Constitution, despite being a Canadian citizen. Jol was a strong supporter of President Jon Ossoff's reforms and worked with several Presidents over his years in the House as House Majority Whip (2037–2041), House Majority Leader (2043–2053), and Speaker of the House (2053–2061). Jol was elected Chair of the House Progressive Caucus in 2036 and had a significant role in the Impeachment of President Ron DeSantis in 2043. Jol was wary of supporting President Barron Trump, a moderate Demorat despite his late-father being a Republican, due to his not so fond memories of his father's presidency. Jol was however good friends with Trump's running mate, a Congresswoman from Brooklyn named Shahana Hanif and supported her in her own bid for the presidency in 2048 and was a strong proponent of the 28th Amendment lowering the minimum age to run for President from 35 to 30, though he was disappointed that the age to run for the House and Senate remained at 25 and 30 respectively.
After Hanif dropped out of the race for the 2052 Democratic nomination, due complications with lupus, Jol was greatly disappointed. Long-time New York Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had hired Jol to work as her campaign manager, political strategist, and senior advisor as she knew of Jol's efficient work and progressive reputation in the House over the last fifteen years in her old seat. Jol publicly expressed his disapproval of Vice President Aftab Pureval announcing his own candidacy for President at the last second when it had originally looked likely that he would sit out of the race and let AOC take the mantle. Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was all but guaranteed the Democratic nomination before Pureval's entrance into the race. When President Hanif endorsed Pureval, her own Vice President, Jol was disappointed again but he could understand the political maneuvering behind the scenes that most likely coerced her endorsement. When Senator Ocasio-Cortez lost the Democrats' nomination to Pureval Jol was understandably outraged, perhaps even more so than Ocasio-Cortez herself. He had viewed her as a model for himself as a progressive Democratic Socialist (more of a social Democrat) and hoped to see her finally reach the presidency after all these years.
When AOC chose to continue her campaign under the Socialist Party label Jol was all too ready to leave the Democratic Party with her and become one of her first high profile endorsements, which proved to cause tension between himself and the White House. The DSA, the precursor of the Socialist Party, had endorsed Jol for nearly two decades so the decision only seemed logical. Jol had to admit he was surprised upon hearing that AOC had chosen 32 year old youth activist icon X Æ A-Xii Musk as her running mate, he had remembered reading about his birth back in 2020 and had followed his career in the news over the years as the son of the richest man on earth. Jol even convinced former President Ossoff to endorse Ocasio-Cortez for President over the Vice President.
All of Jol's hard work would pay off when, in November of 2052, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would finally win the presidency in the upset of the century. She became the first third-party President elected since 1848. Jol had been rooting for her for years, even holding out hope that she would attempt to primary Biden back in 2024. Jol of course was re-elected almost unopposed in his congressional district, but running solely on the Socialist ticket. He had been offered his pick of any cabinet position in her administration but turned it down and chose to stick on in the House as Speaker of a Democratic-Socialist majority coalition. Jol had been very supportive of the 29th 30th, and 31st Amendments of the Constitution, passed in January 2055 and November 2057 respectively. In fact, Jol was the one who first introduced the 31st Amendment, which allowed non-natural born citizens to run for President, to the House floor in 2057. In 2060 the Socialist Party turned to Vice President Musk as their presumptive nominee. After winning the nomination Musk offered the VP-slot to Jol, who was at first honored to be considered but ultimately turned him down believing that a possible loss could halt his career in its tracks. 
After the 2060 election of Chinuah P. Achebe to the presidency transhumanism became the biggest topic of debate worldwide. Jol himself was a moderate on the issue, supportive of an individual's choice to receive cybernetic enhancements or not while being against mandatory enhancements and outright banning them. Jol likened the issue to abortion by calling himself "pro-choice". When BVID-63 broke out in 2063 Jol was one of the first to call for a stimulus package to be passed by Congress, though he was restrained as House Minority Leader. Jol declined to run for the Socialist Party nomination in both 2064 and 2068 due to the mass popularity of Presidents Achebe and Fardin. Jol was also quite supportive of the colonization (and even the terraforming) of the Moon and Mars. Jol supported former President and Florida Governor Barron Trump in the 2072 election under the Fusion Coalition due to his much more progressive platform than 28 years prior.
Jol finally announced his first run for President in 2076, hoping to face President Armstrong but ended up facing his Vice President instead. Jol won the primaries of the Fusion Coalition winning the general election in a landslide against Vice President Rodrigues. Despite being 72 years old Jol looked (and felt for that matter) a lot younger thanks to longevity treatments to halt or at least slow the effects of aging on the human body developed back in 2065.
The first act of the Jol administration was to end the Atlantic War as peacefully as possible by meeting with Laura Frederikson, the President of the European Federation. Jol was elected on an anti-war ticket so he chose to stick with his promise of pulling out of the war. As a Canadian citizen Jol became the first non-natural born citizen to be elected to the presidency. Jol's running mate was long-time Senate Majority Leader Maria Arreola Rodriguez of California, a native of Mexico born in November 2028, who was famously known by her initials MAR and was seen as a the next-AOC. It was the first full ticket of non-natural born citizens in a presidential election in history. Jol quickly started work implementing his Socialist agenda. Despite being called a "Socialist" by his right-wing opponents the word had lost its once negative connotations, originally from the Red Scare and the Cold War. 
President Jol pledged to end the War on Poverty by implementing universal housing, a federal jobs guarantee, and raising the universal basic income to $5,000 per month. Jol decreased the annual military budget considerably to a historic low, advocated for AI rights to be passed hopefully in the near future, established democratically-elected oversight councils for municipal police department, passed the 32nd Amendment which implemented ranked choice voting with instant-runoffs for all executive and legislative elections, increased the size of the House of Representatives to 870 single-member districts while implementing mixed-member proportional representation, increased the size of the national Senate to 448 seats while implementing full proportional representation meaning seats were reflective of the popular vote, promised to hold national referendums on all (or at least most) acts of legislation introduced in either house of Congress throughout his entire presidency to follow through on his promise of direct democracy, increased the Supreme Court to 16 Justices, established public works programs and worker councils at all places of employment with 10 or more workers across the country, established a Prime Minister-like role of First Secretary (chair of the cabinet and concurrent House Representative), and oversaw the total unionization of essentially all businesses operated on American soil. Some of Jol's more radical ideas like capping personal fortunes, limiting yearly incomes, capping individual inheritances, reorganizing the 56 states into larger Commonwealths, outright abolishing the Senate, establishing a no-confidence vote and snap recall elections for the President and members of Congress, and changing the name of the House of Representatives to the House of Commons and Congress to Parliament (he hoped to form the US into a parliamentary republic government system) were to be hopefully saved for sometime in the future when another like-minded individual is elected President.
Jol became one of the most popular Presidents ever as his approval ratings consistently remained above 70 and even 80%. After being re-elected with 75% of the vote in 2080 Jol would end his very successful and popular presidency on January 20, 2085, being term-limited from seeking a third-term. America entered the 2084 election as a much more progressive and left-wing country than it was eight years ago and was a much more democratic society, ranking first on the Human Development Index.
Jol's presidency also had a significant impact on the international community as Socialist and other progressive parties began popping up all over the world. The (moderately transhumanist) Socialist Party was swept into power over in the United Kingdom on a wave of anti-war and pro-peace rhetoric. Jol had also established the Departments of Peace, Nuclear Affairs, Industry, Information, and Environmental Protection to further help the American people. The Progressive Alliance (merger of the NDP and the Green Party), under the leadership of long-time MP Mitchell Partington-Cook (first elected as a member of the NDP and coincidentally had gone to high school with President Jol) had also won a significant majority in the 2078 Canadian federal election, with confidence and supply from the Socialist and Communist Parties. The UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, and India had all left-wing governments by the time President Jol left office in 2085. Needless to say progressivism had taken the world by storm and the future of America (and perhaps the world) would be decided in the 2084 presidential election.
== 58. Barron Trump/Margaret Burke~Vacant (Democratic/Fusion Coalition) 2085-2087 ==
Barron Trump’s second presidency will not be remembered for its achievements. When Barron Trump was elected to the office after his third run, inaugurated exactly 40 years after his first victory, and America was a changed nation. For two years in office, he’d rule uneventfully- the economy was good, the nation was at peace, and the people prospered. But then, he fell sick. Vice President Margaret Burke, viewed as radical in her fierce advocacy against Transhumanism and her firm pacifism, both which delivered her a close finish to Barron Trump, and her wedging in on the ticket as a unity candidate. Widely expected to take over with the President dying, she was propelled into the spotlight.
So on May 1st, 2087, after Burke was unexpectedly assassinated while the President went into a coma, the Nation was left without a certain successor. Libertarian Speaker of the House, Daniel Morris, would be next in line, however the opposition in the House had agreed on Morris only as a functionary (as the role continued to evolve to becoming, with the divided nature of the House at times) and not as the designated successor. Complicating the matter was the fact that the President Pro Tempore, Senator and Former President, Jon Ossoff, was both pushing 100 and also suffering from ill health at the time, prompting him to turn down the seat as president. Some people initially claimed that Ossoff would've been ineligible for the role regardless, due to the 22nd amendment limiting a president's terms in office. However, a loophole was discovered within the amendment as it only prevented presidents from rerunning in elections, not serving multiple terms. Despite this discovery, Ossoff turned down the presidency anyways, citing his age and health as the main reason for doing so. 
With the President unable to name a successor and the Speaker being far from the choice of the majority, it was only to grow more complicated when Secretary of State exposed a supposed plot by the speaker to wage a nuclear war upon taking office, and accused him of being an accomplice of former President Armstrong. In a dramatic display, on live Television the Speaker would be arrested by the Capitol Police as the Secretary of State declared that “the days of Armstrong are over, they will never return. The Libertarian Party is a threat to peace, puppets of a tyrant. I am thankful for this body in laying their trust in me”.
Two Days Later, President Trump was declared dead. The New Speaker declined to assume the office. The Secretary of State would become the 59th President of the United States. Barron Trump passed into the history books as a crisis seemingly came to an end.
== 59. Czesław "Shesh" Babiak/Dharani Goonatilake (Independent, later Libertarian) 2087-2093 ==
 
For how crazy the beginning of Babiak's and Goonatilake's turn was, their one and a half terms as POTUS and VPOTUS respectively were rather uneventful. Babiak was the first Eastern European and the first cybernetically enhanced President, while Dharani Goonatilake was the first Buddhist candidate to have run successfully (though she saw herself as an Unitarian Universalist more than a Buddhist). Both of them were from the Libertarian Party. 
Babiak and Goonatilake's presidency came shortly after VP Burke was assassinated on May 1, 2087 - at that point in time, the assassin was unknown - and Barron Trump fell into a coma and died just two days later on May 3rd. President Pro Tempore Jon Ossoff had declined his spot in the line of succession for reasons of ill health and old age. It was rumored that he declined specifically due to an unknown lung disease which weakened him visibly by the day - some suspected an aftereffect of Mexican Haemorrhagic Fever and/or COVID-19). 
The next person in line was Secretary of State Hippolyte Yi from the Fusion Party. However, before Hippolyte Yi even had the chance to have her swearing in ceremony, police forces supported by elements of the military stormed Congress and arrested all Democratic and some Fusion members of the line of succession - most notably Yi and Secretary of the Treasury Nevaeh Altidore - in response to the outrageous accusations regarding Daniel Morris. People were frightened of a military coup, but the military wanted to ensure Czesław "Shesh" Babiak, the independent Secretary of Peace and Disarmament and well-known cybernetically enhanced man (in addition to being genetically enhanced) became President.
Because of pro-Amstrong and some pro-Patriot comments by Shesh Babiak (even in the 2080s, few Americans could accurately pronounce his first name Czesław and they gave him a nickname) and his enthusiastic support for the cause of the cybernetically and the genetically enhanced, and because of his support for the war against the radical anti-transhumanists of Europe, Babiak was a very controversial figure. He liked most of Jol's actions and supported them, some of them adamantly, but Babiak would have wanted the war against the EF to continue. Also, Babiak was never a fan of Barron Trump or Margaret Burke. In general, the Libertarian line was to portray the Democrats and Fusion Party as "too soft" on reactionaries of all stripes.
The war against the European Federation had ended in withdrawal ordered by Jol as even in the 2080s, it was difficult to win the peace. Yes, all European nations were and still are democratic, but after the breakup of the European Federation in internal conflict, not only his home country of Poland, but most of Eastern Europe, but also Austria and France had reelected antitranshumanist governments. France had even become an outright eco-authoritarian luddite nation.
Jol, Arreola Rodriguez, Burke and last but not least Hippolyte Yi abused the Libertarian's percieved hawkishness. Jol and Arreola Rodriguez in their term only had a few Libertarian proposals blocked and Fusion senators regularly filibustered against any libertarian proposals, but the rift got worse with every day of the Trump/Burke presidency. Finally, Hippolyte Yi, who was next in line, had Daniel Morris arrested on suspicion of "treason". His immunity had been revoked by the Democratic-Socialist-Fusion supermajority, and so prosecution could begin. In the turbulent months, the summer of 2087, FBI and SWAT teams searched the White House, the Capitol, the Supreme Court, many Congresspeople's offices, top-secret documents were seized, one such seizure was declared illegal in Attorney General v. FBI by the Supreme Court etc.
Trump and Burke tried everything in their power to make Shesh Babiak ineligible or prove him guilty of treason. Even a constitutional amendment to restore the natural-born citizen clause and one to make anybody "not fully biologically human" ineligible was brought before Congress and the States. But nothing was successful, and soon after Babiak's inauguration, the constitutional crisis and executive intervention had alienated even most of the Socialist and some of the Democratic and Fusion Party bases. It was widely believed, not just among Libertarians, that the accusation that Daniel Morris wanted to start nuclear war was bogus and many even believed that Hippolyte Yi was actively spreading conspiracy theories against Morris and the Libertarian Party.
As President, however, Babiak proved far less hawkish than many feared. Domestically, via the 33rd Amendment, the rules of Presidential Succession were clarified as were the rules for eligibility - for example explicitly outlining that everyone is eligible who is at least 25% biologically human (by processing/brain capacity in exaFLOPs). In addition to the rather complicated impeachment process, the possibility of a motion of no confidence against the President and Vice President were introduced, should Congress with a 70% majority. The 34th amendment explicitly clarifies under which circumstances immunity protects a member of cabinet or a Congressperson, basically limiting immunity to acts in office, and it also clarifies that no member of cabinet, Speaker or Congressperson can be arrested while in office, except when they are caught during committing a felony.
The trial of Hippolyte Yi for perjury, contempt of court, slander and other offences was among the dominant domestic issues, together with many federal and state laws abolishing remaining discriminatory legislation against the genetically or cybernetically enhanced. After several years of trials and appeals, Yi was sentenced to thirteen years in detention, having been found guilty on most charges. Daniel Morris, on the other hand, was released from detention, but did not reenter politics, retreating to be a private citizen.
On foreign policy, Babiak had countries who discriminated against genetically or cybernetically enhanced people sanctioned, to little effect though. France did return to liberal democracy after the election of Kha Mbappé as President and it rejoined the United Nations of Europe in 2090. However, the early 2090s saw a return of religiousness worldwide, both in the form of traditional religions like Catholicism, Lutheranism and Islam and in the form of Unitarian universalism, as well as in the form of totally new religious movements. Popular and far less hawkish than feared by some in the Fusion Party, Babiak joined the Libertarian Party and was reelected in 2089. 
Eastern Europe was another region where discrimination against the enhanced was frequent, and the only war which Babiak's US supported was a war by the United Nations of Europe, a nation very similar to the US but more parliamentary and recognising the age-old constitutionall monarchies of nations like the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, in support of a liberal uprising in Poland and Hungary. Both nations had rejoined the UNE in 2093. With this success and transhumanism recognised in most parts of the world except for authoritarian neo-Hindutva India and its Nigerian sphere of influence, Babiak declined to run for the 2093 presidency, but his VP Dharani Goonatilake did run for the Libertarian party. The fields for the Democratic, Socialist, Justice, Christian and Fusion parties were wide open...
== 60. Victoria Hart/Martin Yang (Democratic) 2093-2097 ==
The Fusion Coalition had broken up in early 2092 over internal pressures as a major big tent party, leading to the Socialists, Justice, and Democrats fielding their own presidential candidates in the upcoming election. 
Victoria Hart was elected by a country which wanted to see a "return to normalcy and stability" after the chaos of the past few years with the Democrats, which by this time were a "big-tent centrist" political party, being a party which used the return to stability imagery that Hart, a veteran Senator and stateswoman who had served with great distinction would develop. While her victory came as quite a surprise at first considering the other competing leftist parties but in retrospect it made sense. America over the last several decades had undergone massive changes never before seen. Hart certainly kept true to her campaign promise of overseeing a "return to normalcy and stability" in the United States. It was just what America needed to project strength in such a chaotic post-Atlantic War and post-European Federation world. Hart became the first Democrat to be elected President since Shahana Hanif won in 2048, without the Fusion Coalition. 
However, while Hart's presidency would be one marked by relative stability and prosperity with how Hart would govern the United States as a unifying moderate, her presidency would prove to be only a one-term one as health issues, combined with the fact that Hart was already 70 years old, would force her to refuse to run for a second term, especially after a near fatal health scare when she suffered a major heart attack on May 3rd, 2094 that left her briefly hospitalized. 
== 61. William A. Jol Jr./Infinity Jackson (Socialist) 2097-2105 ==
With President Hart refusing to run for re-election to a second term at 70 years old, the field was once again wide open for candidacies. Congressman Will Jol Jr., son of former President William Jol, would immediately jump into the race for the Socialist Party nomination after some urging by his 90-year-old father. 
Will Jol Jr., born in 2029 (was 67 years old in 2096 but looked around his mid-thirties due to de-aging techniques further developed after the 2060s), was elected to the House of Representatives in 2086 during President Barron Trump's second administration. Previously he had been a famous environmental lawyer and political activist. Dominating most early polling, Jol swept the Socialist presidential primaries easily winning the nomination. Jol would pick environmental activist turned Governor of California (elected with over 90% of the vote under the Fusion Coalition ticket in 2090 before its collapse) Infinity Jackson as his running mate. Jol Jr. would carry the party to victory in the general election with 57% of the vote, easily avoiding a runoff against the Democratic nominee Vice President Martin Yang, Liberation nominee former Vice President Dharani Goonatilake (running for the second time), and the Justice and Christian Party nominees.
Sworn into office as the 61st President of the United States on January 20, 2097, exactly twenty years after his father took the oath of office in 2077, Jol Jr. quickly began work implementing his socialist agenda on the country. The very first act passed by the new Socialist-controlled Congress was the Wealth Redistribution Act of 2097, something proposed by the radical wing of the Socialist Party for years. The act capped personal fortunes, limited yearly incomes, and capped individual inheritances. The act would adjust accordingly to inflation and would give the federal government the ability to seize the assets of the wealthiest individuals, redistributing it to the rest of Americans. 
The federal government would use the leftovers of the newly seized assets following the redistribution to pay off its massive debt (a massive feat which it remarkably accomplished by the end of Jol's presidency) and pay for social welfare programs, as well as industrialization and modernization. The seized assets were also used to fund international projects including the denuclearization and dismantling of nuclear weapons, increase efforts to combat climate change around the world, provide humanitarian aid to struggling nations, help the US to pull its own weight in international organizations and treaties, and help with the terraforming of the Moon and Mars, the latter of which was very popular among Lunarians and Martians alike. It would easily be the most well known and popular piece of legislation passed by Congress in Jol's first term.
Easily re-elected in 2100 with over 65% of the popular vote President Jol would call for an Article V Second Constitutional Convention of the states with over three quarters of the states under Socialist control to call for a whole slate of new amendments:
* The 35th Amendment, nicknamed the Direct Democracy Amendment, would lower the voting age to 16 (15 if employed), implement mandatory voting for all elections, allow virtual voting for all elections, establish an early voting period of six months, gives the right to vote to resident aliens, permanent resident non-citizens who have lived in the United States for more than two years, US expatriates and soldiers on US bases and embassies in other countries, made all elections holidays, established a system for recall elections for both houses of Congress, permanently abolished all forms of the filibuster, removed the veto power from the President, and provided hyper-intelligent artificial intelligence that successfully passed the Turing test and have been scientifically proven to be sentient and conscious the right to vote in all elections (easily one of the most controversial of the additions to the amendment). Also binding national referendums would be required to be held on any and all acts and pieces of legislation introduced in the Legislative branch in the future.
* The 36th Amendment would turn the United States into a unitary state parliamentary federal semi-presidential representative democratic republic by abolishing the Senate and House of Representatives and replacing then with a 2,200 seat unicameral representative legislature called the House of Commons, and reducing the executive power of the presidency and transferring certain duties and responsibilities to the First Secretary (also moved to the top of the presidential line of succession as the chair of the cabinet upon the abolishment of the Speaker and President pro tempore). The role of First Secretary instead of being a member of Congress nominated by the President with the confirmation of the Senate became the new elected leader of the House of Commons (like an American Prime Minister), which had a combination of multi-member districts, ranked choice voting, and mixed-member proportional representation. Term limits of five two-year terms would also be established for members of the House of Commons (maximum of 10 years in office for both the House and Supreme Court, including state legislatures and courts). The minimum age requirement for the House of Commons was set at 21 years old and 30 years old for the Supreme Court and position of First Secretary (the minimum age requirement for the presidency and vice presidency were lowered to 30 years old during Shahana Hanif's presidency).
Special elections for the House of Commons would be held in November of that year, the newly elected House would take office on January 3, 2102 and serve until January 3, 2103 after the next midterm elections. Incumbent U.S. First Secretary Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (a very distant descendant of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt), a former UN Ambassador and Secretary of State before being confirmed as President Jol's First Secretary in January 2097 by the Senate, became the very first elected First Secretary of the U.S. House of Commons in November 2101. The Amendment also applies to the states and requires them to abolish their own State Senate and House of Representatives, replacing them with an unicameral House of Commons for the state level. The Socialists would win a huge supermajority in the House of Commons with over 1,750 seats, keeping their majority in 2102, giving President Jol full reign to pass whatever he wished for the final three years of his presidency. The Socialists also sweeped statewide races too for governor and state legislatures.
There were other amendments proposed and passed at the convention as well. The 37th Amendment repealed the 2nd Amendment and inscribed gun control into the Constitution. The 38th through 43rd Amendments, nicknamed the "Second Bill of Rights", inscribed the right to employment, right to decent housing, right to education, right to adequate medical care, freedom from unfair competition and monopolies, and social security into the Constitution. Landlords were abolished with this as well as private schools as funds from the Wealth Redistribution Act were used to provide more funding to public schools (including day care, primary, secondary, and post-secondary).
In a completely separate move President Jol would abolish the NSA, FBI, and CIA through executive order just prior to leaving the presidency in January 2105. Of note President Jol would prepare for a dramatic change to the U.S. law enforcement. Jol began a process of dismantling and disbanding police departments across the country as he sought to finally "Abolish the Police" and bring the U.S. into a post-law enforcement country. 
Of course there were organizations that were established to replace the police like community run public safety services for dealing with a wide range of crimes and problems including domestic violence, mental health crisis response, property crime, harassment, responding to violence, sex trafficking, sex work, serial assault, and traffic stops (and transportation crime). The Prison Industrial Complex was completely dismantled as Jol also sought to "Abolish Prisons" through the establishment of Transformative Justice Centers that sole focus was rehabilitation rather than punishment in communities all over the U.S. Jol had successfully and radically changed the United States justice system for the better. Jol also withdrew most of American soldiers from US bases in other countries where their presence was not required. The U.S. Supreme Court was expanded again to 18 seats as it became almost entirely dominated by liberal, progressives, social democrats, and socialists with a 15-3 leftist majority on the court.
After the Second Constitutional Convention of 2101 the United States would enter a new era of progressivism as it would undergo radical changes in only a few months. The new House of Commons would meet at the Baltimore Convention Center while the Capitol Building underwent massive renovations to make room for the much larger legislative branch. Congress would also be renamed to Parliament. The rest of Jol's second term went surprisingly smoothly and was uneventful save for the massive public infrastructure programs made to modernize the United States into the 22nd Century. America would enter the 2104 presidential election with uncertainty of whether the next President elected would continue the Jols' legacy or take the country down a much different path.
== 62. Roland Dukakis-Somerson/Barron Trump III (Socialist) 2105-2113 ==
With the successes of Will Jol Jr. and the Socialists in the last term, many felt that the party was on it's way to success, and indeed it was. The massive success of Jol Jr.'s Presidency definitely helped his chosen successor, Roland Dukakis-Somerson, the great-great-great-great-grandchild of Michael Dukakis, the 1988 presidential candidate from long ago. Dukakis-Somerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Michael Dukakis IV and Maria Somerson (hence the combination of his name) and was a decently well-off child, his parents both being successful lawyers in the field of A.I. Rights.
As he grew up, Roland found himself fascinated by his family's political legacy (his great-great-grandfather and uncle were both Governors of Massachusetts in the 2030s and 2070s respectively, as well as being a direct descendant of Michael Dukakis, as stated before) and began to dabble in politics himself. Though initially a (Barron) Trump-supporting Democrat, his politics shifted leftward during his college years, where he officially began to campaign for the Socialist gubernatorial faction, lead by Peter Warren, the great-grandson of Elizabeth Warren, and eventually became his campaign assistant at just 27 years old.
Peter than became an advisor to Will Jol Jr. during his presidency, and he put him in contact with the (fairly young at the time) friend and ally Roland Dukakis-Somerson, who Jol Jr. took a shining to. Indeed, Roland was quickly advancing faster through politics than normal, but nonetheless was found to be a talented statesman and orator, someone who could charm and captivate, with many drawing comparisons to those like AOC and RFK before him. Roland would ascend to the Socialist leadership in the convention of 2104, handpicked by Will Jol Jr. and well-liked by the general populace, he chose Barron Trump's grandson, Barron Trump III., former Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City (who was 79 at the time, but appeared to be in his early 30s) to become one of the youngest candidates for President in a while (at just 34 years old, though he looked like he was in his 20s).
Easily winning the election with a remarkable 70% of the Popular Vote (which was helped by Jol Jr.'s campaigning alongside D.G. and Trump III), Dukakis-Gomerson worked on his pride and joy, The Union Renewal Act. The URA, as it became known, would enshrine the rights of unions, enforce pro-labour legislation and force businesses larger than 2 stores (while also heavily encouraging small business owners with grants and tax breaks) to allow their workers to unionize. The Act passed in a slim vote, and the passing was cheered by Radical members and blue-collar workers alike (though industrial jobs had been dying due to automation, they still heavily appreciated government support), who proclaimed the President to be "Eugene Debs reborn" after the Act. He also appointed another presidential descendant, John F. Kennedy V, the great-great-great-grandson of JFK, to First Secretary. The vote was substantial, and the First Secretary was well regarded as competent and loyal ally to Dukakis-Somerson's Administration.
Next, came the Amending of the 13th Amendment, in which the line from Section 1, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." would be replaced with "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, including as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This would mean that involuntary servitude as a punishment to crime (and the formerly horrific prison rates and convictions in America) would no longer exist, at least legally speaking. The Amending was a challenge, but, in the end, they got the votes they needed, and Dukakis-Somerson became a hero in the eyes of convicts, especially convicts of color, who for far too long had been abused with this slight wording in the Amendment meant to make their ancestors free. Though the few private prisons left decried the act as 'pro-crime', most had accepted and even welcomed the Amending change in the Constitution.
Finally, Dukakis-Somerson would expand the aid needed to the Moon and Martian terraforming missions, proclaiming that "terraforming the stars is our generations dream, just as the Moon Landing long ago, we here shall declare that it must be done, not because it is easy, but, in the words of former President Kennedy, but because it is hard." With that, Dukakis-Somerson's first term ended, and his second one begun.
Elected in his second term with 72% of the Popular Vote (beating out his own record), Dukakis-Somerson's second term was semi-eventful, with a stopped assassination attempt by an Atlantic Wars veteran, who had blamed the US and the Socialists for the war, his second term was generally quieter than his first, passing more pro-union and working class acts, as well as increasing the UBI program to $2000, Dukakis-Somerson's term ended in 2113, as he stepped aside for the new President to take charge.
== 63. Carolina Robertson/Ahmad Farooq (Socialist) 2113-2114 ==
A very far descendant of Duck Dynasty (popular early 21st-century reality TV show) patriarch Phil Robertson, she has deviated from the beliefs of her ancestors by taking a comparatively leftist stance in line with the monopoly that progressivism has on the United States by the 22nd century. Literally her surname's the only reason why she got herself elected into the White House; if it weren't her that was on the Socialist ticket, then most certainly the Libertarian nominee, the Indonesian-American Governor of Florida Jonathan Widjaja, would've most likely won instead. Her vice presidential pick was Ahmad Farooq, a Pakistani-American professor of Post-Modernist Islamic Theology at the University of Chicago, who was most famous for publishing his treatise The Old Ways Must Die, which outlines his firm stance on Islam, the turbulent history of Islam over the last fifteen centuries, and why Islam must abandon its old Sunni-Shia divide and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, along with many other radical views which literally make secular Muslims look like fundamentalists.
Robertson’s First Secretary pick who was also verified, confirmed, and voted on by the House of Commons on January 3, 2113 was the Azerbaijani-American MP for the Riding of Chicago, Hunter Kasumov, who was also the city’s mayor for 10 years before his current 5 years of service in the capital, as well as a former tight end for the Chicago Bears, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Fighting Illini, and William Fremd High School. Under the Robertson administration, many changes were made that wen’t even further in a radical direction than those of the two preceding administrations, including some of the most drastic tax rates imposed on billionaires via the Tevzadze Amendment to the Wealth Redistribution Act, the forced closures of many nonrenewable energy plants for the sake of eventually transforming the country entirely to be dependent on renewable energy only, the demolition of numerous churches to be reused as public schools, and the automatic granting of anyone who has resided in the country for over 1 year full citizenship, whether legally or illegally.
Internationally, Robertson invented billions of dollars into the economy of Timor (which was not only a member of ASEAN at this point but also by now a merger between formerly Indonesian West Timor and formerly Portuguese East Timor), becoming the small Southeast Asian country’s closest ally and trading partner. Sadly, her radical changes were pissed off a certain terrorist group called the Return To Normalcy Movement (RTNM), which was a right-wing paramilitary organization that detested the new Socialist America and wished for what was once the greatest country on the planet to embrace traditional Judeo-Christian values. On June 20, 2114, Robertson, Farooq, Kasumov, Georgian-American MP for the Riding of Adirondack (northern New York) Drew Tevzadze who helped pass the aforementioned amendment, Armenian-American Socialist Party Chairman Jake Shahoian, and many other leading figures in the Socialist Party were murdered by an RTNM detonation while attending the annual American Socialist Party Board Meeting in Akron, Ohio. Robertson will go down in history as someone who rushed her plans for the nation too quickly and took the literal meaning of socialism to the limit.
== 64. William Jol IV/Jonathan Widjaja (Socialist/Libertarian) 2114-2121 ==
The bombing of the annual American Socialist Party Board Meeting by the RTNM was undisputedly a terrorist attack which targeted the highest ranks of the Socialist Party of the United States. With the deaths of President Carolina Robertson, Vice President Ahmad Farooq, and First Secretary Hunter Kasumov the top leadership of the Socialists and America as a whole had been decapitated. Immediately after the detonation the Secret Service rushed to implement Continuity Of Government (COG) by locating the Secretary of State and the rest of the cabinet. Robertson's choice for Secretary of State was William Jol IV, the 35-year-old grandson of former President Will Jol Jr. and great-grandson of former President William Jol. Many speculated that it was due to Jol Sr. and Jol Jr.'s reputations that he even got the job in the first place. After all, someone had to carry on the Jol family name and Robertson had already won on her merits and her last name, though many believed it to be the latter. And so on that fateful day Secretary Jol would be sworn into office as the 64th President of the United States and quickly got to work.
Jol soon started with his first course of action. Through Executive Order, which was approved by the House of Commons as set in the new rules of the 2101 Constitution Convention, President Jol demanded that all paramilitary groups, organizations, and militias are to be disbanded and dismantled. In a landmark Supreme Court case, RTNM V. Jol, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the President deciding that the very existence of paramilitary groups is unconstitutional according to the 37th Amendment of the Constitution, first ratified by the states and the old Congress in 2101, which repealed the 2nd Amendment and outlawed the ownership, purchasing, and selling of all types of guns and automatic weaponry. Of note the 37th Amendment was only proposed at the 2101 Constitutional Convention after a horrific shooting outside the Capitol Building in D.C. left one Socialist Congressman dead and several passerbyers injured.
After the RTNM and all other paramilitary organizations were disbanded and dismantled permanently Jol would get to work looking for a Vice President. He sought advice from his grandfather (aged 85) and great-grandfather (aged 110), both former Presidents themselves. They suggested that in the wake of such a devastating attack and such disunity caused by the recent political and social changes that he should look to pick a Vice President from across party lines. Jol looked over many choices but ultimately turned to Jonathan Widjaja, the Libertarian Governor of Florida who was the Liberation nominee for President in the 2112 presidential election. The 2112 election was quite close and though he was running for re-election in Florida Widjaja accepted Jol's offer, being quickly confirmed by the House of Commons in August 2114 after confirmation hearings had been held all throughout July.
With the position of First Secretary now vacant the House of Commons convened to hold a vote for a new First Secretary. The Socialists still had a majority in Parliament though over the years their supermajority had slipped away due to voter fatigue. They held a very slim majority of 1,200 members while the Libertarians made up the rest of the opposition as the Democrats had been left to the history books, being disbanded due to disunity, and the Justice Party had collapsed in a similar fashion. The Libertarian Party had become very left-wing and anti-government over the years as the right had been practically decimated and reduced to very small pockets in the country. The Socialists in the House elected MP Magdalena Ojeda (representing the riding of Appalachia in Parliament), a descendant of former Democratic West Virginia Senator and two-time Governor in the 2040s and 2050s Richard Ojeda, as First Secretary. Ojeda was the second female and LGBTG+ MP to become First Secretary (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the first female LGBTQ+ member to hold the position herself in the late-2090s and early 22nd century).
The next item on Jol's agenda would be space travel. With America's surplus of wealth Jol wished to direct more funding towards terraforming projects on the moon (now named Luna), Mars, and hopefully Venus. Plans for manned missions to Europa, Titan, and Venus were written up and planned to begin in the early 2120s. Plans for Humanity's expansion into the cosmos were made as designs for further colonies throughout the solar system were also written up. The colonies on Luna and Mars were originally run by governors determined by their respective governments on Earth. Since Jol Jr.'s presidency and the beginning of terraforming (set to be finished in 20-40 years time) there had been a growing sovereignty movement in the colonies. Elon Musk, the father of future Socialist Vice President X Æ A-Xii Musk, founder of Tesla, Neuralink, and of course, SpaceX, originally intended for extraterrestrial colonies (preferably self-sufficient ones, at least) to be ruled by direct democracy, fully independent from earthly nations. President Jol the third (referred to as Jol3) went before the United Nations General Assembly advocating for the Lunarian and Martian colonies to be granted sovereignty from their respective governments and instead rely upon the UN for financial support, aide, and other supplies. The General Assembly passed the motion by a narrow margin and it was upheld by the Security Council in a surprising move. Jol had used his foreign relations expertise and his personal relationship with foreign leaders from his time as Secretary of State to convince their UN delegates on the Security Council to pass the resolution. Also Jol's father Secretary-General William Jol III also helped quite a lot.
The 2114 midterm elections gave the Socialists an even larger majority thanks to the sympathy votes from the recent attack at the Socialist Party Board Meeting. Despite increasing their members in the House of Commons the Libertarians ended up getting their man, recently-elected Denver MP Cliff Hartley of Colorado, a rising star in the Libertarian Party, elected to the position of First Secretary. This was another stunning move of bipartisanship on the role of the Socialists. The House of Commons, made up almost entirely of Socialists and Libertarians, began voting as a cohesive near-unanimous block as their interests had aligned due to the progress of their stances. It became commonplace for the House of Commons vote unanimously for key pieces of legislation proposed by President Jol. One of the biggest acts of legislation passed by the House of Commons in Jol's first term would be the Congressional Apportionment Act of 2115, which specified a limit of 50,000 residents per riding represented in Parliament. This act would immediately increase the size of the House of Commons to 11,175 members. Special elections would be held in June 2115 where the Socialists had narrowly kept their majority with 5,600 seats with the Libertarians making up the rest. With the new trends the entire House of Commons was now under joint Socialist-Libertarian control.
The Libertarians and Socialists had become united into a near-unstoppable political force in the United States, so much so that in the presidential election of 2116 Vice President Wijaja agreed to stick on the ticket with President Jol in his bid for re-election. The two formed a Socialist-Libertarian unity ticket and won the election in the biggest landslide in history, winning an enormous majority of the popular vote (93.4% with an astonishing 100% turnout since the implementation of mandatory voting in 2101) with hundreds of millions of votes as well as a commanding majority of the vote in every state. In fact, there was not a single state in which the Jol/Widjaja ticket did not exceed 75% of the vote. This was the largest landslide in American history, even exceeding George Washington's historic win in the 1788–1799 election since that election was decided by each states' slate of electors and was not decided by the popular vote, which was not recorded until 1824. This election had ended the Seventh Party System, beginning the new Eighth Party System in American politics. This new Socialist-Libertarian coalition was the strongest force in American politics that no had ever seen before. Due to the extraordinary 2116 election being practically been a one-man race, with Jol and Widjaja winning almost unopposed, some thought the United States was no longer a democracy but that was no where near the truth. Jol's approval ratings consistently remained above 80%, being 88% upon first taking office in 2114 and hit a high of 98% after announcing his bid for re-election jointly with Widjaja in a stunning show of unity in 2116. By the end of Jol's presidency the entire Supreme Court, which was once again expanded to 20 Justices, came under the complete control of pro-small government progressives, liberals, and socialists, with the conservatives (even moderates) being completely wiped out from the Judicial branch.
Jol's second term was not as exciting as his first, though that did not significantly alter his approval ratings, and Jol spent much of his final years in office grooming Widjaja as his successor and is preparing him to run for President in 2120 under the new coalition ticket, presumably with a Socialist as his Vice President. With his successor essentially set in stone and polling quite well with no immediate competition Widjaja looked to be a shoo-in for the next election. Needless to say America had once again undergone dramatic political changes and the future of the United States would once again be determined at the ballot box.
== 65. Bismark Schmidt/William York (National Socialist Party of America) 2121-2129 ==
In many regards many thought that the 2121 election would be a hard win for the Socialist, so it would be surprising to everyone that it would turn out to be one of the most controversial in US history. It all started when a set of emails reveled widespread corruption within the Unions and their connection to the Socialist party. However, it would be revealed that the corruption went much further and into almost every singly governmental and business station in the country and abroad. From the reality that the government took the anti-paramilitary action to take put in one the largest security spyware and observation programs in the Earth as almost every citizen of the US was being observed. In this regard instead of the NSA, CIA, or FBI a complete control by corporate and civilians over communication infrastructure was supported by the government to attack any "reactionary or anti-government agents". Other major scandals include using the funds taken from the many Wealth Redistribution Acts to line their own pockets or even worse had actively lied about the money received or taken as many of the actual funds did not exist as many wealthy people simply left the US or wasted their money useless things to avoid taxation.
That's before the reality that several of the amendments and acts did not work as intended. The right to work and The Union Renewal Act had created massive bloat across the working sector which lead to corruption as many simply hired people for the benefits while taking advantage of them by forcing many to conform to the unions demands as they would practically fill the jobs/unions with their own minions. The abolition of the 2nd Amendment only lead to the trade of guns to go underground and in many regards lead to un-needed violent confrontations as at this point most gun owners were deep in the country or just used public or private ranges. The community run public safety services also tended to end up as corrupt if not more corrupt then the regular police as many would simply do what was "right for the community" which in many cases lead to corruption and attacks on political opponents.
While not all of these can be traced to the Socialist the reality that a similar ideological and political thought has dominated the US meant that there has been very little in terms of punishing their peers especially as most were willing to look the other way in a show of support. As the investigation showed this was not from the top down but from the button up as the Democratic political machine has survived and assimilated all other political parties to the point that the change to socialist parties made no real changes in the political outlook as the same political families have dominated the greater political, cultural, and ideological make up of the nation. This would mean that while many of the lower politicians were arrested the main party leaders were not arrested. Of course this did very little as they found themselves now divided and dealing with a massive lose.
Its not surprising that after several decades of progressive/center-left to left political/cultural control has left very little opponents as the only ones that were against them were fringe movements. Its not surprising that when the election time cam about that the Socialist would choose William Trump/Robert Musk due to their familial connection to the Trump family as part of the Socialist Party, while the opposing groups would rise from practically nothing. Former Widjaja would not run do to fear that nominating him would appear as nepotism. 
This is why the biggest opponent to the socialist would be Bismark Schmidt, or as she was better known as online, "Kar85". A rather famous Idol, VA, V-tuber, influencer and overall a major entertainer to millions of people, she would join mostly on account of her rather pro-gun, pro-business views and greater push for trans-humanism liberties. She would create and lead by the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), which was named as a direct insult to the Socialists and progressives. It also helps that the term National Socialist has lost a lot of its edge due to the years since the Nazis existed or even any major right wing nation for that matter. Although outside of the name and aesthetic it had no real relation to any Neo-Nazi or far-right party or their ideals. 
All of this would lead to one of the biggest fights in electoral history as people would use every insult, tactic, and outright rioting between the different voters. In the end the NSPA would manage to win the election with a 51% yes vote with her running mate William York. With the mass corruption scandal and failure of actions would lead to a massive change in the House of Commons as for the first time several new parties would rise. Notably one Titus Hardy, from the newly created Christian Socialist Party, would be chosen for having lead one of the biggest Dock Workers Unions in America and for being a redneck and a major practicing Catholic and for taking many of the former socialists and creating the Christian Socialist, a socialist party with a more of a Christian edge to them.
Bismark's first term would be an important one as she would have to deal with the massive corruption scandals, and recession that hit the country because of such scandals. To everyone's relief she would not be the second coming of Hitler or Trump as while her party did push for the aesthetic of the original NSDAP for her party she would try to keep most of the socialist ideas in place while changing them. The Wealth Redistribution Act and Union Renewal Act would all be re-formed with Unions no longer being outright mandatory for businesses and greater degree of wealth being allowed to rich individuals with less taxation. More controversially would be the 44th Amendment which removed the right of employment from the Second Bill of Rights as many of the jobs were not actually contributing to the economy and tended to be abused for corrupt purposes. While such measures would lead many to call this the second coming of Reagan the changes were not as extreme and still allowed the government to increase taxation as needed. This would help the economy as bloated and inefficient businesses would fail and their assets sold and many billionaires would move into the US greatly stimulating the economy.
The next election would go much better for Bismark and the NSPD who people begin to trust to a much greater degree. Notably she would receive over 69% of the vote in large part due to her support across the influencers and the idol community which in many regards has massive influence and support from millions of people, in many cases more than several politicians. The other major things she would deal with were the Kim Song v. The Supreme Court, The LGBT Nation v. The Supreme Court, the Furry League v. The Supreme Court, and William Penn v. New York, with all cases having to deal with the rights of people and the ability to change their genetics.
The LGBT Nation v. The Supreme Court and the Furry League v. The Supreme Court were about how both wished to changed their genetic code to pass their changes to their children. In the end it was agreed to allow the parents to change their child's genetics as long as said genetic changes did not directly or indirectly hurt the child or his descendants. William Penn v. New York and Kim Song v. The Supreme Court would deal with the reality of a new species without human like thought. For Kim Song his creation of new Silicone AI were vastly different than human kind especially in how they thought and so the question of what rights they should have and what they should be allowed to due were asked. In the end it was decided that they would have the same rights of other humans but that they should also be allowed to state their own laws as most do not even have normal human like morals or even human like life.
William Penn would deal with the rise of another bread of artificial life the Stepfords/Thirds. Created from robotic and organic flesh, the Stepfords, were one of the most used android out there. However all this would come into question as the reality that many of them held some kind of sapience. All this would lead to many to remove them from what many thought were abusive or oppressive situations which would lead to Penn to lose his "wife" to the local authorities. In the end after multiple tests on the Stepfords it was agreed that while they held similar sapience/sentience to humans, they also had massive differences to regular humanity and most did not mind their treatment and many did not even feel pain the same way people did.
The major changes would be the 46th Amendment which reinstated the right to bear arms, although with greater government oversight. This would lead to the rise of terrorism and rioting as several groups especially the hardcore Socialist were angry and willing to act in a violent way.This would lead to the Federal Enforcement Act which created a new law enforcement as the Police was re-created although with a greater degree of government oversight and anti-police brutality laws, along with the creation of the NIB(National Investigation Bureau) to deal with domestic threats.
All in all Bismark would leave the presidency having saved the economy and having changed the major political zeitgeist that has existed for decades. Hardy would agree to leave around the same time to look back towards his Union days admitting that the Secretary position was not really for him. The question of what happens now is on everyone's mind as the nations culture continues to change as the old forces of the right rise along with many others from anarchist to even stranger groups.
The biggest changes globally were the Corporate Wars across the former Russia, Africa, and the surrounding region as the main corporations Neucom and General Resources would finally go to war. To the surprise of everyone as the war was going a pilot only known as NEMO would manage to defeat the corporate forces and the European Peace Keeping force. All of this would end with a confrontation with a trans-humanist group Ouroboros and the revelation that NEMO was really a combat AI. After that NEMO would be welcomed in by the people for defeating the corporate forces and the European Peace Keeping forces and allowing for the reunification of Russia. In the end NEMO would be the world's first AI President of the newly recreated Russian Empire. In Africa, the opposite happened where the corporations were able to become actual governments in their own right with the biggest change happening after a major fight over the Congolese Space Elevator which ended with the dissolution of the Central African Republic, and the East African Republic after extremely extensive fighting between them allowing corporate entities like Evergreen Family, Global Armaments, and many others, which many have proclaimed Pax Economica.
== 66. Jaek Aebram/Mikhail Armstrong (Democratic) 2129-2133 ==
It was a shock when the once dead Democratic Party came back like a bat out of hell when the Socialist corruption allegations came out, but to political analysts, it was inevitable. Decades of party fatigue, combined with the corruption allegations made voters tired of the Socialist Party, which had become steadily less socialist throughout the decades. Meanwhile, the Democrats slowly built up their reputation as the liberal opposition to the Socialists, winning gubernatorial elections, senate seats, and almost a Presidency. Now, however, all the hard work had paid off.
Non-binary Jewish-American politician Jaek Aebram was the first of their kind in the Democratic Party, and the first enby politician to win a major political office, Mikhail Armstrong, their VP, was also the first Russo-American in the White House. Aebram promised a return to strong markets and pledged to defend the Socialist programs that already existed, but would scale back certain elements of the last few administrations.
Though still very liberal in terms of politics, Aebram was perhaps the most conservative President in decades. From social policies to economics, markets came back into force in the United States once more. Aebram was initially unpopular to many, seeing as the Socialist Party was still a huge force, however, much to their satisfaction, Americans mostly accepted the new President, and welcomed many of the reforms. With Aebram's rather uneventful presidency, many Americans awaited what would be coming next, whether it was the Socialists rising back up like a phoenix, the Democrats remaining in charge, or someone else sweeping into office.
== 67. Linda Harper/William Parker (National Socialist Party of America) 2133-2138 ==
The US would have to enter the new decade with several problems. The biggest was the rise of Pax Economica and its growth into South America and near complete control of the major space infrastructure. This would give them a major edge in space transportation and near complete monopoly in orbital manufacturing and infrastructure. Not helping was the rise of Pax Economicas own rising economic influence which was coming into conflict with the US itself, along with their increasing use of memetic warfare. Many people were terrified and there was a growing fear of greater violence and a failing of American influence abroad. Its due to this that the major players for the election would be the NSPA and the coalition of Christian-Democrats.
In many regards the population would look to the same party that changed the country last time as the NSPA won again with a 61% yes vote in the presidential election, with their current pick Linda Harper/William Parker. Another major influencer, idol, and entertainer, Linda Harper had decided to follow Bismark Schmidt's own example and decided to improve and defend the the nation in large part due to the support of her followers. The other change would be the change of the First Secretary into the First Counsel, mostly as a way to avoid the connection to the Socialist and to have a more neutral name. The new First Counsel would be Tiberius Hardy, cousin of Titus Hardy, who joined the Democratic Party to represent them.
For starters the rise of the Pax Economica into the New World would lead her to create the Oceanic Compact which would in effect act in a similar way to the old European Union although with greater integration between members with an agreed upon set of laws that would be set across the member nations along with the free movement of people and a single currency. Unlike the old EU, the OC would be much closer integrated with only the current member states to be included to avoid overstretching the organization. As for who these members were, they were the US, Japan, Korea, and Britain who due to close relationship would remain close together with similar goals.
While this was going on, the US would experience a major reaction as the new generation came of age into a world that was seeing the US lose its influence and now have to fight a rising power to keep control over the situation. Notably a rise of nationalism/inter-nationalism and romanticism for the 1950s/1980s, the anime booms, cyberpunk, and the idol industry. Or in more comprehensible terms the people wanted a romantic ideal/aesthetic based on the American and Japanese 1950s and 1980s and their values to be represented by entertainers and entertainment across the Oceanic Compact and hopefully the rest of the world. Overall a lot of 1950s/1980s cloths and songs were made with a large amount of flair based on anime and manga while a push for "traditional gender roles", religion, and idols based on the 2100s centuries ideas on those old ideals across the US and the OC by the use of memes.
The other is the continued use of other lifeforms as the first of what people call "uplifts" start to appear with Elephants and Squid being some of the first due to being used in the livestock business. This new forms of life are officially also considered citizens with their own rights but considering how squids do things like cannibalism while elephants actively push their males out at certain points several of these groups do not have the same morality as humans and people have to deal with that.
Across the world one of the biggest changes would be the continued rise of Pax Economica, which was now being lead by Morgan Industries and its CEO Nwabudike Morgan, who had managed to get the nations of Brazil, Ecuador, Canada, and Sir Lanka to agree to join the greater Pax Economica and allowing the corporations full control over a majority of the worlds space elevators and to even have a way to attack the US. This would allow give make them a major economic player on Earth and in space. The other would be the increasing use of memetic warfare to increase influence as they begin to show themselves as the next superpower in that would bring prosperity to the Global South and those hurt by the European and American Hegemony and as the true bringers of Progressive ideals, bringing back the Globalist ideal but significantly more heavily armed and more willing to use force to bring the world under their control.
The new Russian Empire continued to rise and was able to finally defeat the Ukrainian and Polish forces allowing them full control over the Black Sea and allowing them to spread their influence into the Balkans. Due to this the Russian Empire would begin to lock towards the US and the OC as possible allies to combat the rise of Pax Economica. In space, the American colonies were increasingly looking away from the US as many of the colonies still upheld the socialist values and saw the Reaction and the OC as giving up on those ideals. A greater push for neutrality and economic and cultural independence happen across the American colonies.
In 2138, after suffering serious injuries from a major Socialist terrorist attack, President Harper decided to officially resign from office shortly afterwards to recuperate, leaving the presidency under Wiliam Parker instead.
== 68. William Parker/Keyhan Dehghan (Libertarian) 2138-2145 ==
In the aftermath of the Socialist terroristr attack that left President Harper to retire, the United States' hard times seemed to quickly pass, with President Parker's policies leading to economic growth amongst all social stratas in the US. The good times, however, didn't exactly lead to the NSPA's electoral upset in 2140.
The Libertarians had, slowly but surely, been crawling back to some form of relevancy on the political stage, and, for the first time in a long time, the Popular Vote was tied. Suddenly, the Libs and the NPSA, seeing as they were tied for first, decided to strike a deal, the President would be Parker (of course), but in exchange, the VP would have to be Keyhan Dehghan, the first Persian-American in the White House (With Soo-Young Kim being the first Korean-American First Consul, both of whom are Libertarians, are promised by the NSPA).
The Presidency, despite the minor chaos of the election, rode the wave of the good times, 50s/80s nostalgia at an all time high, with Parker becoming almost a Reagan-esque parallel. The uneventful Presidency would be rated as an upper-tier, but forgetful time, which, compared to the chaotic downfall of the Socialists, was a welcome change.
== 69. Mickey Flynn/Tripp Palin IV (National Socialist Party of America) 2145-2153 ==
General Mickey Flynn, descendant of disgraced former General Michael Flynn, entered the political scene back in 2120 when he endorsed social media influencer Kar85 Schmidt's newly founded National Socialist Party and her campaign for President, which finally ended the Socialists' 24 year hold on the presidency. Flynn would be selected as Schmidt's Secretary of Veterans Affairs for her first term before promoting Flynn as Secretary of Defense in 2125 after she won an easy re-election over the Christian Socialist Party and the remnants of the Socialist and Libertarian parties. 
After the NSPA lost the 2128 presidential election, Flynn started protesting Jake Aebram's presidency and administration and holding huge rallies making him a staple among NSPA supporters. In 2132 the NSPA was swept back into office with popular support. After the election President Linda Harper appointed Flynn as the new Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Flynn would serve dutifully throughout Harper's administration until her assassination attempt by a radical socialist and her subsequent resignation. Flynn would convince the new President, William Parker, to nominate him as the new Secretary of State.
Flynn would get his wish and in 2144 he would rise through the polls and win the NSPA presidential nomination, picking his good friend Tripp Palin IV, descendant of 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, Alaskan Governor, and former Congresswoman Sarah Palin and Alaskan Senator in the 2040s and 2050s Bristol Palin, as his running mate. The ticket would win a very drawn out victory as recounts that would determine the results of the election dragged on into December. 
Eventually the Supreme Court stepped in, for the first time since the 2000 election. Since the 2120s the Supreme Court had undergone a significant shift to the right. the court ruled that the recounts stop immediately and that the original results which showed a very narrow victory for the Flynn/Palin ticket with 50.000001% of the popular vote, just barely avoiding a runoff with the Libertarian nominee Vice President Keyhan Dehghan, who carried 25% of the vote (the Christian Socialist nominee won 12%, the Democrats won 10%, and the dying Socialist Party failed to even qualify for ballot access in many states). Flynn immediately got to work as the results of his election were certified in January. The House of Commons had a very narrow NSPA majority in the chamber and Flynn endorsed Georgian MP Maggie Taylor Greene, descendant of former Georgia Congresswoman in the 2020s Marjorie Taylor Greene, for the role of First Councel. Greene won the position on the first ballot. 
Flynn campaigned on mass political and electoral reform, specifically calling for the reinstitution of the former U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and the electoral college. In order to go through with his grand plans he would need large enough majorities in the House of Commons and the state Houses of Commons to call for a Constitutional Convention. In order to prevent people from drawing comparisons between himself and the Socialists Flynn explained on many social media sites the need for reform and to go back to the old ways before socialism perverted the thoughts and minds of Americans from all over the country. 
However, no matter how popular the calls for reform were becoming that could not change the fact that the NSPA had only just barely won the presidency and held a very shaky hold on Parliament. Recall elections were held in former Socialist and Libertarian stronghold states for leftist or left-leaning MPs, replacing them with NSPA or Christian Socialist ones, in 2145 and 2146. The midterm elections were a bloodbath for the other political parties in the House of Commons and downballot on the state level. The NSPA won huge majorities on the federal and state level. Some even wondered if President Flynn had been using the FBI, CIA, DHS, and NSA (reinstituted by Kar85 Schmidt in the 2120s) to turn the results in the NSPA's favour though the simple answer was that the popularity of the other parties were simply waning and the NSPA was on the rise. 
The huge NSPA majorities were still not enough as Flynn began increasing his tactics. More recall elections were held throughout the 2140s, further pushing the House of Commons in the NSPA's direction. Then came the scandals, the blackmailing, the deaths. Dozens of Libertarian and Christian Socialist Party members, and former Socialists, were discovered to have been engaged in insider trading and even having connections to human trafficking. The claims were never substantiated by law enforcement since all the accused died in a mysterious plane crash. The wreckage was seized and disposed of by the federal government. 
When Flynn announced his campaign for re-election few wanted to challenge him for the office but some had the courage (or stupidity depending on who you ask) to throw their hat into the ring. The first was Nathan Shaw, a stereotypical Christian Socialist MP from Michigan, who was untainted by the recent scandals rocking the boat in the party. Katelyn Lucero, a Democratic politician and former MP from Texas who had just recently been recalled from her seat in the House of Commons, entered the race as well. The Libertarian Party had few serious contenders for the presidential nomination and after falling into fourth place in the House of Commons some even wondered why nominate a presidential candidate anyway. The race for the Libertarian nomination was still quite close as the first ballot at the LNC ended with no victor. After ballots started hitting triple digits the LNC called it quits and chose to field several presidential candidates, mainly composing of various favourite sons who held very little to no name recognition or charisma, let alone enough resources for a national campaign. With the Libertarians cripple the Christian Socialists hoped to pull off a win while the Democrats hoped to increase their popular vote total. 
A week before the election MP Nate Shaw died. Some say his plane just ran out of fuel. Others that there was a bomb planted on board. Conspiracy theories abound about the cause of Shaw's death but one thing is for certain, hours after Shaw left his campaign rally in Hawaii on his private jet where he explicitly called out President Flynn on his authoritarianism he would never see land again. With Shaw out of the picture and the Libertarians having no chance at the upcoming election the Democrats saw their poll numbers rise and with it an actual chance at the White House. Keisha Copeland, Shaw's running mate and replacement as the Christian Socialist nominee, as well as descendant of famous televangelist Kenneth Copeland, died of a mysterious illness shortly after Shaw's death. The CSNC met to nominate a new presidential candidate and decided upon Nicholas Parks, Shaw's sole opponent in the primaries, as the new nominee. Parks was assassinated by an unknown sniper on election day causing many voters to stay home and risk paying the fines for not voting. Lucero was at just over 44% of the popular vote in the hours following election day. Flynn was ahead with 46% while various other candidates compromised the other 10%. Recounts of course were held, though after Lucero was assassinated via a car bomb after a post-election campaign stop in Arizona it was decided that her votes be counted for her running mate Nicholas Wilson, a standard white establishment Democrat. In the runoff election Flynn won himself a narrow re-election over Wilson with just 51% of the vote. 
After Flynn's very controversial victory and months of nationwide protests and rioting the re-inauguration would be held with the strictest security. However, that would not stop a bomb being detonated at the Capitol Building while Flynn was taking the Oath of Office. The bombing would take a large portion of Parliament, triggering special elections to be held months later in April. Flynn would survive, as would most of his cabinet, and would call on Parliament to pass a new bill giving the presidency absolute executive authority and a blank check to do what he will in response to the recent attack. Of course the special elections gave the NSPA a supermajority in the House of Commons and most state legislatures had fallen under control of the NSPA after last year's elections. 
A new Constitutional Convention would be held in July 2149 to draw up a new Constitution for the United States. This new Constitution granted near-unprecedented powers to the President and stripped away the power of the House of Commons. To boot the House of Commons was abolished and the House of Representatives and Senate were re-established (along with state Houses and Senates). Parliament was changed back to Congress and the First Councel position was outright abolished. The new Gun Rights Amendment banned all gun laws, reinstituting the right to bear arms in the Constitution. Term limits were also done away with as well as age limits. Ranked choice voting was removed from all US elections and the electoral college was reintroduced, though now with a system more similar to the old Maine and Nebraska rule for determining the winner of the state's electoral votes. 50% of the electoral votes would go towards the winner of the popular vote while the rest would be decided on a state-by-state basis. This move would practically ensure NSPA domination over elections due to the party's relative popularity. The nostalgia for the pre-Socialist period was going strong so there was a lot of growing support for these so-called "reforms". The rest of Flynn's presidency was dedicated to crushing protests and national unrest from the leftist crowd. Flynn's presidency would take America in a new strong and bold direction as a majority of the states would ratify the new Constitution in January 2150, making it the new law of the land. 
And then...the sh*t hit the fan. 
The states of California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Arizona, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut would all secede from the United States. The seceded western states formed the Democratic American Republic (aka the DAR) while the northeastern states formed the new Democratic States of America (aka the DSA). Both new countries went unrecognized by the United Nations and faced little international support as they were widely seen as illegitimate successors to the United States government under President Mickey Flynn. The new countries were made up of previous Socialist stronghold or "safe" states, a fact which Flynn made sure to let tbr country know in his address to the nation. 
With his new "emergency powers" Flynn would suspend Congress indefinitely and cancel the 2152 presidential election. Flynn would continue to fight the Second American Civil War until the end of his presidency came in November 2153 when a radical Socialist snuck up on the grounds of the White House and assassinated the President, leaving Vice President Tripp Palin IV to clean up the mess as the new President. Many Americans feared for the future of the nation until they saw some semblance of hope for peace as they witnessed the joint-DAR/DSA forces march into Washington, D.C., declare their new union as the Democratic Union of America (aka the DUA), and announce their President as the new legimate President of the United States. With the newest development of the Civil War hostilities have yet to come to an end though with the new DUA President having defacto control of DC the outcome of the war is still uncertain. Time will tell how the next four or eight years will go under the new President.
== 70. Tripp Palin IV/Rin Ortiz (National Socialist Party of America) 2153-2157 ==
The Second American Civil War was not going well for both sides. This was not the 1860s anymore and when the secession happened the DAR/DSA would find themselves suffering major economic downturns along with the US. Mexico would outright collapse as their economy could not deal with the massive economic disruption. While people did find out the attempts by former president Mickey Flynn to take over which lead to the attempted assassination of Tripp Palin which forced him to flee, this would only lead to several "Autonomous States" to pop off as several military commanders would take over their local region setting up warlord states. Overall the US was not doing well.
This would see the rise of one Rin Ortiz, born from Japanese and Hispanic parents born in Texas. Unlike the previous members of the NSPA Rin Ortiz already had political influence being a major supporter of what many people called Stepfordvilles, places where there was a large minority of Step-fords/Thirds and where the retro-50s aesthetic really shone. Situated across most of middle America they had a major influence in the region and so were able to unify the region under a shared culture to restore the United States as a united nation. Due to being the one stable region Rin Ortiz would win the local election of what they people saw as the real US government and so she would lead the national forces.
Of course she understood that united the US would be difficult if not near impossible and so she decided to do carry out her own plan. For starters she would allow Tripp and his loyalists to flee and seek refuge in her territory but would force him to make her the new vice president, although in reality she was the one making the decisions as Tripp was seen as too much of Mickey's lackey. With this she was able to fully get the support of the states west of Mississippi as here most of the people still supported the central government.
With this she would make major headway south into Mexico as she allied with several of the anti-government forces and establish control over most of northern Mexico, while in the international stage she managed to get the full support of the Oceanic Compact which recognized her state as the American government. With this American forces would make a major push into California/Arizona while Hawaii was occupied by Japan/Korea. All of these pushes plus the lack of major pushes by the DSA would lead to major actions by the Pax Economica members of Canada and Brazil who wished for the change in US government. Of course this would lead to other groups to intervene as the Russians would send their own support to the US further leading to panic across Pax Economica members which would lead them to fully support the DSA and DAR as the true successors of the US and to send their own supplies to support them.
The loss of Arizona and California to US forces would lead to Pax Economica forces to directly intervene as they would occupy places like Louisiana, Florida, and parts of the Deep South in an attempt to set up their own New Africa out of the African American parts of the Deep South, and to support the DSA and DAR. All of this would lead to the the DSA and DAR to lose support from the American population who saw them as puppets and allies of Americans enemies as they US would experience its first invasion since the Chinese-American war decades ago. This would also bring in the rest of the American Warlords back to line and into the US government as their failures to keep Pax Economica forces out of the country has made them panic and angry at what was happening.
As for Tripp, he would eventually be killed in February 2157, in an attempt to take out Ortiz by DSA assassins. This left Rin Ortiz as the new president, as she had made herself Secretary of State. In many regards she had won the culture war as the American people supported her from the trans-humanist factions who were willing to fight to the normal American man and woman who were fighting against Americas enemies. With more support coming from the OC and other anti-Pax Economica factions she looked to removed Americas enemies from the nation.
Across the world Pax Economica forces had managed to win out across Africa and South America as they had to gain control over said continents. None the less an Anti-Pax Economica block was forming as apart from the OC, Russia had managed to gain near control over the Eastern Europe again along with most of the Mediterranean nations as they were afraid of the growing power and influence of the corporate states. With the American Civil War taking in most of their attention a full alliance against them is forming.
Western Europe was growing as France started to grow its economy again as they managed to take over the economy of the Iberian and German states who had balkanized from the economic depression the American Civil War had brought. Now they are looking to become the new economic power and take the mantle away from the African corporate sates.
Many of Americas Space colonies would receive a major boost in population as a large number of Californian refugees left the US and would settle in space where the Socialist had full control of the situation and supported the DAR/DSA.
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