Wasn’t Lindberg pretty much ruined because he ran counter to the liberal thesis on Europe? He was set to become President and then someone nabbed his kid. Politics is some ugly stuff at critical junctures in history.
Not quite. Charles the younger was kidnapped in 1932, when Hoover was in the process of running for reelection, and Lindbergh was nowhere to be found among the Dems running for president.
Lindbergh started his "America First" activities in 1940, some eight years after the kidnapping.
I don't know where you heard your info, but is sounds like it came from the tin foil telephone.
He was ruined because he hung out in Nazi Germany, supported eugenics and pled the case of a government that later declared war on the USA.
He was set to become President and then someone nabbed his kid.
Lindbergh was not involved in politics at all at the time his son was kidnapped. He was also 30 years old when his son was kidnapped and therefore ineligible for the Presidency, anyway.
He never ran for president or any other office, was never considered for nomination by any party, and his public involvement with politics began with his famous Reader's Digest article in 1939 - seven years after the kidnapping.
Politics is some ugly stuff at critical junctures in history.
What's ugly is all the fake history being manufactured by certain individuals on this thread.
He wasn't about to become President anywhere, and his reputation was soiled by his admiration for and close association with the Reich.