Only to the degree they could not publicly look like they were supporting Stalin. Stalin was not a popular figure and public perception greatly mattered, especially in America. America still had a legit democracy and rigging national elections in those days was next to impossible.
It's okay if you have no arguments, but everyone can see you're just a partisan ideologue who isn't interested in any serious discussion. MFTP would also talk in circles while avoiding my main points.
If you understand a topic material well then you can discuss it succinctly. This is true in every subject. Details can always be engaged more on a specific point if necessary. But like MFTP you cannot discuss the subject without a link to a blog, no link in particular within the blog, which indicates you're operating on emotion and not reason.
The fact of the matter is that the isolationist movement was very strong in America during the 1930's, as WW1 had been extraordinarily unpopular. The Bonus Army and the aftermath meant that no one, from either D or R party, could be pro-war without getting crushed in an election.
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That Hitler did not encourage this movement and advance trade with the USA is mind-boggling, and it shows, much like Japan, that there was a severe underestimation of the capabilities of America.
Instead Hitler deliberately antagonized Americans, declared them ideological enemies in the 1930's, and was dismissive towards America because it was a democracy. Instead of being an intelligent diplomat, Hitler gave his enemies endless ammunition to sway public opinion against Germany. Hitler made enemies with America for no reason even though America could have easily stayed neutral.
Hitler was dismissive of the USA, prior to WW2 for many reasons, though he does point out what a joke "democracy" was back then, the same as it is today. The "democracy" of the USA in the 1930's is the same as today. Controlled by Wall Street, and both candidates are puppets, so it doesn't matter who wins, Wall Street still wins.
He was dismissive of the USA, because the same communist bankers he defeated already completely controlled the USA, complete with their puppet FDR. That Americans just did as told, suffered through a depression despite having unlimited resources, while Germany prospered. The USA govt. was then using its wealth, which there was little due to the depression, to build up Stalin's military in a plan to attack Germany. While USA tax money was being wasted to kill millions of innocent Christians all across Eastern Europe and thousands of churches were being burned down, Hitler reached out to England, France and the USA for peaceful negations to take on Stalin.
The fact the USA helped build up the USSR, while the USSR was killing millions of Christians and burning down churches is enough to make any reasonable Christian untrusting of the Americans and the reason many German soldiers referred to the USA troops as "Godless Americans".
Hitler's mistake was not in respecting the satanic USA, it was in not waiting to go to war until their technology was so advanced that they could not be defeated. Had they waited a year or two and advanced what they were working on, they likely would have won the war. Hitler admitted this mistake to Von Braun in their last communication.
-1933 Germany faced a jewish-led global boycott before Hitler did anything (march 23-24).
-1934 Hollywood (run by jews Mayer, Goldwyn, Warner) was pumping out anti-German films like The House of Rothschild. Germany formally protested the US laughed it off.
-1936 FDR's re-election campaign openly cast Hitler as a global menace before any hostilities before Anschluss or Poland.-FDR’s inner circle (Morgenthau, Frankfurter, Baruch, Brandeis) were fanatically anti-German. Hitler still held back, he kept a neutral tone on America until late 1941.
-The US refused fair trade. Germany offered barter arrangements to avoid Wall Street debt traps; Cordell Hull and FDR’s clique slammed the door.
-FDR never replaced Ambassador William Dodd after he left Berlin in 1937. That’s a diplomatic snub of the highest order basically saying, "You’re not a legitimate government."
-Then in the 1937 Chicago “Quarantine” speech, Roosevelt called Hitler a gangster years before war. Not provoked, just hostile.