DBWI: Taft-Hartley veto is overridden

[Crunch Buttsteak]

Looking back, the attempt to pass Taft-Hartley Act is considered the ur-example of anti-union overreach, by passing a bill that would have severely undercut the hard-won power of unions in an attempt to restore the pre-depression status quo.

How would history have turned out if that Congress had been able to override the veto on it?

 

[HIM Dogson]

Well, you might not have had such a huge boost to Robert Taft in the 1952 primary; he won his party's nomination by pointing to the vetoing of the act as an example of Presidential tyranny against what the American people wanted. Without a Taft presidency a lot of things would have been different; the western alliance or something like it might have formed earlier, and maybe they could have avoided Beria's plans for Germany becoming reality. Without the foreign policy failures of the Taft Administration it might have taken much longer for conservatism to be wholly discredited in American politics- it might even not have been discredited at all.