r/AlternateHistory • u/Cyber_Ghost_1997 • 1d ago
Post 2000s 2012 United States Presidential Election (Pax Sanguinis Universe)
The 2012 United States presidential election took place on Tuesday, November 8, 2012. Voters turned out to elect the President and the Vice President of the United States.
The GOP ticket of Saul Conklin, former Senator of Arizona, and Phillip Graves, former United States Marine Corps officer turned Senator of Missouri, defeated the Democratic ticket of Floyd Charles, former Senator of Illinois and Calgar Sirin, former governor of New York.
Conklin and Graves both ran on a platform of aggressive military and economic reforms. Conklin advocated for an economic model based on the tenets of Right Wing Accelerationism, believing that Capitalism could be used to enact radical sociopolitical change if done right.
He also advocated for military reform, more specifically a push to limit military intervention in foreign wars.
Conklin also was a staunch opponent of the Patriot Act, believing it was a government inside job that collectively condemned innocent people on a whim and that the Founding Fathers would be outraged at the law. He therefore vowed to repeal it if he won office.
In addition, he also vowed to overturn Roe v. Wade, peddling a controversial narrative that the Patriot Act and Roe v. Wade had been somehow connected. During one campaign rally, he claimed, “They gave you the invented right to abortion! Now they intend to spy on you so that you can’t stop it!”
Conklin won the election in a landslide, helped in part by the conspiracy theory he helped to promote, which claimed that the Patriot Act was an “evolution” of Roe v. Wade intended to ensure attempts to restrict or abolish abortion would be met with “state sanctioned violence.”
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