Labor Party (Dräggel's Multiparty USA)

The Labor Party is one of the 2 main center-left parties of the modern US party system alongside the Progressive Party and the larger and more moderate of the 2. It's main policy proposals are "Medicare for all who want it", Universal Pre-K, Gun Control, and more. It's main base of support is middle-aged suburbanites but it also finds suppport in highly urban regions populated with upper-middle class white liberals and the Black Belt.

Founding
The party was founded in order to form an united front in support of Bimetallism and Free Silver and due to a general vacuum of more progressive politics against the conservative Bourbon Democrats and a GOP increasingly captured and controlled by big-business. This vacuum was large and quickly filled as the party expanded it's base from Agrarian populists to urban industrial labor unions to minorities and many Catholics and White Ethnic voters. In it's first election it won about 8% of the vote and in 1896 this share tripled to 26%.

Progressives split from Labor
In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt narrowly lost the nomination to Robert La Follette Sr. and, greatly irritated by the loss, decided he was going to run anyway in a separate ticket, and assembled a coalition of the more agrarian original elements of the party and they split off from the Labor party to run on Teddy's agenda, which would be described as a more Progressive-Conservative and Americanist one. This established the Labor party as an urban, more orthodox Social-Democratic and/or Socialist party while the Progressives were more uniquely American and idiosyncratic.

Post-WW1 and the First Red Scare
After the war, many americans wanted a return to normalcy and to adopt a more combative stance against left-wing radicalism and the Liberal Party was the main beneficiary of this, doubling in size from 1918 to 1928. Most of this Growth came from the Labor Party, with some proeminent Labor party politicians trying to pull the party to the center to stave this off. Their main accomplishment was ensuring that Labor would never enter government with the Socialists if they ever gain a majority, though they never did.

Great Depression and World War 2
After the Great Depression, the Labor Party regained all of it's lost popularity and a bit more and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first Labor Party politician to get elected president since 1908 and he and the progressives used their majority to pass the New Deal in order to combat the Great Depression. As these policies faced harsh opposition from business leaders and FDR's coalition remained narrow as the newly formed and increasigly northern America First Party stole much of their potential voterbase. The party elite was largely pro-intervention but their voters save for the Jewish ones were fairly unsure of whether they should involve themselves in opposing Nazi Germany and later on Joining the allies, but as Germany went to was against Britain most of the party agreed they wanted to send the British weapons and Materiel. They would get to fulfill this wish and more once the Pearl Harbor attack happened and the American public became radically pro-war and Roosevelt was quickly reelected with majorities to back him up into war.

Cold War and Civil Rights Era
After the end of WW2, the newfound proeminence of the USSR spurred the Second Red Scare and the Labor party stuck it's course and tried to dismiss McCartyism as absurd and advocated for a fairly modest foreign-policy, but this was of limited effectiveness as the conservative parties were largely more popular than Labor and the Porgressives during the 50s. This more moderate posture would contrast with the Progressives' more bold stance against McCarthy and their subsequent absorption of the Hippies and New Left into their party made Labor into the decidedly more moderate of the 2 left parties, a position which they occupy to this day.