W.I. Lindbergh was the 1940 Republican nominee?
W.I. Lindbergh was the 1940 Republican nominee?
For all that it's an AH trope, I think Lindbergh would lose harder than Willkie IOTL. The 1940 election was fought on foreign policy, and while that's often couched as 'interventionist Democrats v isolationist Republicans', it was more complicated than that.
Lindbergh's hardline isolationist position would hardly appeal to more people than Willkie's softer one, and I think his existing association with the Axis could easily be used by the Roosevelt campaign.
For all that it's an AH trope, I think Lindbergh would lose harder than Willkie IOTL. The 1940 election was fought on foreign policy, and while that's often couched as 'interventionist Democrats v isolationist Republicans', it was more complicated than that.
Lindbergh's hardline isolationist position would hardly appeal to more people than Willkie's softer one, and I think his existing association with the Axis could easily be used by the Roosevelt campaign.