We'd be much better off today if Dukakis won in 1988

[darklordoftech]

- Politicians would learn that they can be "soft on crime" and "liberal" and still win

- Cheney wouldn't become Secretary of Defense and therefore wouldn't be trusted with foreign policy

- Thurgood Marshall's replacement would be liberal. 5-4 decisions such as Bennis v. Michigan, Citizens United, and Janus v. AFSCME would go the other way.

- No Bush-Hussein rivalry

- Depending on if Hussein invades Kuwait, if Dukakis intervenes, and Dukakis's exit strategy, no American troops in Saudi Arabia and therefore no 9/11

- Lamar Alexander wouldn't become Secretary of Education and therefore America 2000, the beginning of No Child Left Behind, wouldn't have been a thing

[Middle-aged Europe]

That could be said about pretty much any post-1964 election in which the Republican candidate won...