David Simon’s alternate history drama The Plot Against America presents us with an America in which hero pilot Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the limited series, Lindbergh runs as a populist candidate in favor of strict isolationism, and he keeps the United States out of World War II once he is in office. However, Lindbergh’s presidency also provokes intense white nationalism, both among his supporters and in the White House, and the country begins to descend into fascism. Lindbergh’s role in The Plot Against America might be difficult to …
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