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Le Conceptuel
Eh, I'd rather prefer Turalyon not to go full villain in the sense of making him just be Hitler and Alliance Garrosh, but I'm not sure if I am opposed to the idea of him representing the military edge of the Alliance. Keep in mind that the Alliance is a union of nations, so they can all withdraw support, and it seems like the Night Elves are already on shaky terms with the rest of the Alliance, with other hardliners sure to follow, and they'd definitely be prone to rally around Turalyon with his "reclaiming old territories" talk we get from him.
It would be nice to finally have the Alliance shake up a bit. We rarely get to see their politics - keep in mind they're actually technically far more politically primitive than the Horde. The Horde is rallying under military dictatorships like Silvermoon and organizing a sort of defense council (it's starting to look less like a Comintern-esque hegemon or even just a big federal government like the U.S. and more like a legitimate, voluntary pact like NATO) while the Alliance is still under more primitive governments than their counterparts. The Draenei and Night Elves are theocratic, the Gnomes just turned into a technocratic kind of enlightened monarchy, there are four conventional monarchies (Gilneas, Stormwind, Ironforge, Kul Tiras, though the latter does use the trappings of a military dictatorship), one of which is actually a confederacy of three monarchs within that, and a disparate group of scholars with no real government to speak of. The Lightforged, despite having the trappings of a military dictatorship, were led directly by a Naaru and now presumably answer to Velen, thus making them a theocracy, unless Turalyon really does have absolute control now and is the military dictator.
Putting Turalyon on the chair would mean that he could eventually make the role of High King back into its original incarnation of supreme commander and allow the Alliance to catch up, government-wise. It would be somewhat amusing for the nobles to appoint him before promptly finding themselves on the receiving end of a purge (especially given Umbric's apparent distaste for squandering material goods and, as you mentioned, Alleria being put up there and thus being a liaison between them that Turalyon would trust). Add to that how it presents an interesting paradigm shift, meaning that now the Alliance have taken on a form of governance similar to the Horde under a Warchief, now being a confederacy run by a military dictator. Alliance infighting definitely does present an image similar to Germany following World War I - a monarchy recently abolished, a powerful dictator taking the reigns, and all sorts of hostile sentiment that the Horde seems to have abandoned with its final purge of its forces.