The 2048 United States Presidential Election, the 66th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2048 was fought in the shadow of a global plague that claimed the life of incumbent president Jacoby months earlier as well as several others in the presidential line of succession, and three major candidates.
What then candidate, now president McMahon promised during his brief campaign was a swift return to pre-pandemic life, a more fundamental, a return to the “golden era of America” the 2010’s and 20’s. An era he emphasized was marked by relative peace and social order, traditional family values, and “True Americans” putting America first.
Historians have been quick to point out the considerable social unrest, disease, decaying infrastructure and draconian over-policing of the era, but the appeal to simpler times was very popular with a terrified and increasingly world weary and xenophobic base.
Late in the campaign, possible confrontation with the rapidly expanding P.U.F. formerly Russia and China, that began unifying with plague beleaguered and vulnerable nations around the world especially throughout the mid east and eurasia became the hot button issue, with McMahon hailing the P.U.F. as an example of strong leadership in difficult times and promising to remain on good terms or at least non-interventionist.
McMahon has been good to his word on this at least, even remaining on good trading terms with the P.U.F. while most other major powers have placed sanctions or complete embargoes on the superpower, which in light of well documented gross human rights violations and the targeted acquisition of safe zones and weapons of mass destruction is considered by many to be an indictment on McMahon as a friend of despots and America as a terrorist supporting nation.
