A Fascist America

How real was Charles Lindberg's proposed run on the Republican ticket for the Presidential Election of 1940? If anyone remembers Lindberg back then he was by far the biggest celebrity in America at the time, on par with a Tiger Woods or Michael Jackson. America in 1940 was very much a divided society with the Great Depression still ravaging families and destroying the social fabric of society and many of FDR's New Deal policies were unpopular with conservatives.
 

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Lindbergh was an isolationist, not a fascist. He admired Hitler at first, sure. So did everyone. We're talking about a guy who turned around a country that burned money for fuel into an up-and-coming world power.
 
Lindbergh was an isolationist, not a fascist. He admired Hitler at first, sure. So did everyone. We're talking about a guy who turned around a country that burned money for fuel into an up-and-coming world power.
I knew he was anti-semetic, but you can be anti-semetic without being fascist.
Also yeah, why is everything bold?
 
Antisemitism was pretty commonplace at the time.
My point exactly, besides even if he was a fascist, and even if he won, a third party canidate would likely just end up as a lameduck president, it would take years of building up the America First Party before he had a shot at being a succesful leader.
 
Roth is out to lunch.

Or, more charitably, Roth makes Lindberg a fascist to make his novel work.


Actually the Germans plotted the whole thing and were pulling the strings, Lindberg is shown as a puppet, who was UNWILLING to partake in the more extreme measures. The little things that he did were to try and protect the Jewish citizens of America. A lot more complicated as a character than you claim.
 
Actually the Germans plotted the whole thing and were pulling the strings, Lindberg is shown as a puppet, who was UNWILLING to partake in the more extreme measures. The little things that he did were to try and protect the Jewish citizens of America. A lot more complicated as a character than you claim.

It was actually quite a good novel, if periodically ASB. Lindberg becomes a much more sympathetic character in the end.
 
A more plausible scenario for a Fascist America would be having Henry Ford, D.C. Stephenson, Edward L. Jackson, or Father Coughlin elected President (even if the last one is a little ASB).
 
I hate to piss in some of you guys lunches, but it's Lindbergh. Not Lindberg. And definitely not Lindenburg.
 
Dear lord, I was just looking into Lindbergh as a President the other day. Mine was for a Second Return to Normalcy President (Lindy is a key figure of the 20s, and his Isolationism fits), rather than Fascism, or Pseudo-Fascism. I don't think he was a Fascist, Pseudo or otherwise.

From what I saw, I think it would be hard to have Lindbergh become President. Because it seems he never wanted to be anything different than what he was, and he really didn't have solid political views. I think what the book I was looking at said was that he knew more what he was against than what he was for.
 
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