(November 7, 2016 at 1:57 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I do think the isolationists were losing badly after the Fall of France. Let's go to the polls. (Cherry-picking poll numbers is inevitable, but not advised.)
Maybe you missed it, but I've already made the point that things had changed by 1940:
(October 12, 2016 at 8:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 11, 2016 at 7:02 pm)abaris Wrote: The major difference being that FDR didn't gear the whole economy towards a future war effort.
He certainly did as much as he could in 1940, starting with giving US Army and Navy stocks to the UK (necessitating replenishment), signing off on the Two-Ocean Navy bill that was for the time astounding, and a bill calling for 100,000 planes a year to be built by 1945. Also, the draft. [...]
I do appreciate the additional supporting data, thanks.
