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>It's undeniable that Americans wanted no part in the war.
Americans tend not to care about the rest of the world, and especially back in the 1930s, most Americans wouldn't have cared that much about what was happening outside of their town. For most of its history, the U.S. could afford not to care.
There were also "America Firsters" in the 1930s who wanted to keep the U.S. out of war, and Trump has tapped into this sentiment. But once Japan attacked Pearl Harbor that isolationist stuff flew out the window. Charles Lindbergh supported the war because his attitude is that, at the end of the day, he was a patriot and America had been attacked and America had to win.
>Farther Coughlin was enormously popular. The nick Fuentes of his day.
I think his popularity might be overstated a bit and dramatized as more of a "threat" than he really was. Also his popularity fell sharply once he started openly praising Hitler and the Catholic Church ordered him to shut up.