What if Lindbergh was elected President?

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What if Lindbergh was elected President? What would his attitude to The Great Depression be? If he managed to stay President until World War Two would he keep America out the war? Perhaps America only goes to war in the Pacific and avoid Europe, therefore forcing peace negotiations leading to Nazi Germany's survival and a cold war between Germany and Russia. How about Operation Red, might that happen in this timeline? What you think?
 
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If we're thinking about the same Lindbergh, wouldn't he be ineligible to run, since he was 26 at the time, and you have to have at least 35 years of age to be allowed to run?
 
1940 defeats Roosevelt with a "No Third Term" campaign.

A more isolationistic American stance. No foreign aid to the Allies.

If things come to a head with Japan Hitler does not declare war on the USA and Lindbergh doesn't join the European war.

This would get rather tangled. US and UK vs Japan with UK and USSR vs Germany.

I can imagine Britain just sort of going, "C'Mon guys, Jeesh!"

The butterflies would be amazing.
 
How likely is it that there would be no blowback against an isolationist president after Pearl Harbour, even if Germany never declares war against the US?

Might some people not make the connection "Well, okay, it's not Germany that attacked us, but it is a German ally, and Lindbergh got elected promising us we had nothing to fear from these guys."
 
Who would his VP be if he got impeached?

Seeing America just got attacked would the blowback wait til later, maybe after the war?
 
I would argue that without Pearl Harbor even Roosevelt would have a had time getting the US into WW2. Remember Germany declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor. With that in mind, I would see Lindbergh as a Republican nominee for Vice President to add some glamour to Bob Taft ticket. It is not easy to imagine the Willkie boom not happening and Dewey fading away as too young and even he was non-interventionist. Taft-Lindbergh would be a viable ticket against Hull or Farley as the Democratic standard bearers.
 
How likely is it that there would be no blowback against an isolationist president after Pearl Harbour, even if Germany never declares war against the US?

Might some people not make the connection "Well, okay, it's not Germany that attacked us, but it is a German ally, and Lindbergh got elected promising us we had nothing to fear from these guys."
Would Lindbergh press sanctions against Japan? That was the overriding reason for Pearl.
 
So, basically, we're butterflying his personality.

OTL, He was so upset about the publicity over his child's kidnapping that he took his family to England from 1935-39. He hated publicity - hard to be a politician with that attitude.

OTL, his classification would be "white supremacist" today; he supported the war on Japan. He felt we had that "white European" background in common with Germany and that Hitler was doing good there. (That's what cost him his military commission in 1941, I believe.)
 
What if for some reason, the US joins the war in 1939? Lindbergh could plausibly campaign on getting the US out of what I imagine would be seen as an unpopular war, without Pearl Harbor and its rally-round-the-flag effect.

So, basically, we're butterflying his personality.

OTL, He was so upset about the publicity over his child's kidnapping that he took his family to England from 1935-39. He hated publicity - hard to be a politician with that attitude.

Yes, but it's understandable why he would not want to have publicity during such a personal tragedy. Playing devil's advocate, if the kidnapping doesn't occur, would he run?

OTL, his classification would be "white supremacist" today

I think he could win over a lot of the White Southern Democrats with that tactic.
 
What if for some reason, the US joins the war in 1939? Lindbergh could plausibly campaign on getting the US out of what I imagine would be seen as an unpopular war, without Pearl Harbor and its rally-round-the-flag effect.

Yes, but it's understandable why he would not want to have publicity during such a personal tragedy. Playing devil's advocate, if the kidnapping doesn't occur, would he run?

I think he could win over a lot of the White Southern Democrats with that tactic.

He was obsessively private long before the kidnapping, so, no, he wouldn't run. He didn't move to England until years had passed after the kidnapping. His wife, whose father had been an ambassador, was also private (although a writer) and would have disliked the intrusive that being FLOTUS involved.
 
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