I’d be curious to know, during WWII, what percentage of Americans thought we’d lose the war. I would guess it would be in the minority, for a defeat would have been too terrible to contemplate. I see a parallel in the 2024 presidential election, and for the same reason, I am confident Harris will win, because the alternative would be too much of a disaster. I’m betting on right over debacle, since that’s what history, albeit over time, has shown us. Karma? Yeah, I think so.
@johnldeboer I'm not sure how many people thought we'd lose, but around half were ready, at the beginning of the US entry into the war, to let the Nazis keep territory they'd taken rather than go to war.
@AskTheDevil Yeah, there were isolationists, for sure, and Nazi sympathizers like Joe Kennedy and Lindbergh, but when the British Isles were threatened, that was too much for the majority of Americans. And they were pushed into action when Hitler stupidly declared war on us after Pearl Harbor