The Republican Party was platform-committed to staying out and fought getting involved to the point of sending aid. How much of that was because FDR wanted to send aid and was not set against getting involved. But then in 1941 he had information about the possibility of a German atomic bomb that few others in the USA knew of or took seriously.
There was an American Nazi Party operating in the USA with big rallies, etc. The most prominent US member I know of was Charles Lindbergh.
Some of the trading with German corporations (when your 'assets' include what was seized from 'undesirables', right down to the gold in tooth fillings, you can make very sweet deals) that made certain men very rich was behind a lot of the Nazi-backing then. The way that the Nazis dealt with unions was very dear to the hearts of US industrialists.
Most all that changed on Dec 7, 1941. The ones making the big money had to be stopped by law in 1942. Lucky for many that the synthesis of aspirin had been traded for prior to war being declared.
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