[thisisnotauser]

Seems like a great opportunity for a non-traditional candidate with some backbone to pull an FDR on this Herbert Hoover.

[cholantesh]

Sure, provided they're not thoroughly wrung out by the compromised apparatus of their party - or just disappeared by Hoover*.

Assuming that's a reasonable analogue - I'm not super knowledgeable about that era of US history so can't say for sure