What happens when George Washington inherits a United States that won every single battle of the Revolution?

In this alternate history, Washington doesn’t tiptoe through a fragile republic—he builds a confident, ambitious one from the ground up.

From the creation of the Cabinet and Judiciary, to a federal Gradual Emancipation Act in 1790, Hamilton’s financial revolution, neutrality with a backbone, and a Jay Treaty signed from a position of strength, we follow Washington decision by decision as he lays down the political, moral, and financial architecture of a very different America.

It’s not destiny. It’s design.

Welcome to Liberty Rewritten, a podcast that asks: what if the United States didn’t just make different choices… but won different battles, avoided different scandals, and elected different leaders altogether?

In this extended introduction, host T.J. Hall lays out the six key divergences that will reshape the entire timeline—from the Revolutionary War to the modern era—and explains how each episode will blend narrative storytelling, historical analysis, and the actual writings of historical figures to explore this alternate America.

Think of this as the intellectual prologue to a very different republic: one where the Hamilton–Reynolds affair never happened, Watergate was a non-story, Trump never took office, and the Revolution never faltered. We’ll travel backward through these divergences, unraveling history before rewriting it—one presidency at a time.