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While I don't know enough of the causes of the Crimean War to be certain, its absence leading to a more aggressive Russia could lead to an earlier Russo-Japanese War, which at the right timing could serve a similar purpose without souring Russia's diplomatic prospects with other European nations.

While the following bit about the New Deal policy visibly failing is certainly a decent way to do so, I think it'd be more entertaining to have a Thule Society coup just as the election advertisements start rolling. Because then you have the secular authoritarian ultranationalist socialists...

Essentially, pre-2006, MySpace, Slashdot, and other "prototypical" parts of the ecosystem shit the bed hard enough for attempts at replacements to begin within a few weeks of eachother, that then cooperate to make an "Everything Client" connecting their varied substitutes to make user content...

Perhaps have well-timed moderation scandals result in "mainstream social media" becoming user-stored files forwarded to tagged servers with their own front-ends, then servers spread this data similarly to Usenet newsgroups according to their own settings. Not too sure on the structural layout...

Horrific fundamentalists of a religion that started with a wildly successful warlord establishing a new stable state is not actually that wild. The only question is dodging or pushing through international pressure that tries to preserve the "Big Lie" of territorial stasis at truly baffling...

Khyber Pass ISOT. What time period would be most dramatic to drop these tribal gunsmiths able to hand-craft things up to current man-operated artillery? The lack of it being a real industrial process is an important note, because they don't actually need to really tech up, they just need a...

I think it'd be more sensible to have it be two-thirds like most of the other non-simple-majority mechanisms. Heck, even with simple majority it'd be a game-changer since the usual ossification of law doesn't happen, as all the weird outdated stuff that "never gets enforced" drops off the books...

Actually, there's a surprising amount of plausibility that, absent World Wars to sanity-check such things, they'd advance railway artillery into actually usable landships, find the mega-artillery unusable when field tested, slightly downscale to just normal battleship weapons to piggyback off...

One line of thoughts I've had, lately, have centered on technology being "out of sync" compared to OTL, with the main line being rendering various abortive naval concepts accidentally viable. One of them being having the IJN hounding Aviation Battlecruisers from getting torpedo bombers in...