In our timeline, a powerful union organizer and labor boss, Eugene V. Debs, was a perennial candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America. He never gathered over 1,000,000 votes, but was a notable candidate in the elections of 1912 and 1920. In the Red, White, and Red timeline however, Debs began to forge powerful political alliances earlier, and won in an extremely close Presidential election in 1912. Here is how it all happened, as related by the History of the Rise of Socialism and Communism.