i basically educated my mom on blowback and what could have been (she's an FDR stan because of our family history with the New Deal)

i think best case scenerio with Wallace is the U.S. goes firmly socdem for a generation or two and the USSR becomes market socialist and basically does a China but far earlier

after that who knows butterfly effects likely the crisis comes later but maybe the socialist/communist bloc is far stronger and more economically integrated and neoliberalism never happens

especially if there's a socialist economic zone that combines Europe with the Soviets. there was so much goodwill in the aftermath of WW2 and Wallace could have severely disrupted the CIA's creation (since FDR fucking hated the OSS)

imagine buying the global south like 15 to 20 years of decolonization and political development without interference or only the good kind (material and intellectual aid no strings attached)