Another term might have delayed everything another generation, but the left never stops, they eat, breathe and dream power.
Thatcher called it “rachet socialism”. they never stop and whenever they have power, they give the rachet a couple of pulls. when they are out of power, their opponents (i.e. the stupid party) NEVER turns the rachet any pulls backwards, so it becomes inevitable that the left will eventually get everything they want. ugh.
I strongly disagree. By the time Harding and, later, Coolidge rose to power, the 'RAT party had been thoroughly discredited under the bankrupt "leadership" of Woodrow Wilson (and his colleague, the despicable William Jennings Bryan). The DemonKKKrats were headed to the fate of the Whigs, at best a rump party.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that the two remaining political parties would have both been Conservative, perhaps a northern-based GOP and a Southern/midwestern coalition Republican brand. In such a scenario, which I consider plausible, liberalism would have withered and died in these United States.