MMMM, I don't think that's quite accurate.
Time admired him, not just giving him “Man of the Year” but I seem to recall a thread that had some quotes from around 1933 praising him too.
Ahhh, yes he was thought well of in the US press. There were many in the US that agreed with much of what he said, and many that didn't want to go to war with him. Look back at the early years of the Kennedy's. The old man was pretty much on Hitlers side and caused problems for the anti Hilterites. It's not something that the Kennedy clan brags about, but it got pretty thick for awhile. Even JFK was diddling a Nazi for awhile and got J. Edgar Hoover looking at the Kennedy's.
FDR ran on a platform to keep us out of the "European problem". FDR could see it coming, but wouldn't get elected on a war platform. Churchill had already "wooed" FDR and convinced him war was inevitable. Many in the US felt that Britannia needed to get cut down to size after all their global colonies were getting less manageable.
Much of this is why many believe the evidence points to FDR "allowing" The attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR wanted to make Europe the main front in the coming war, but the Japs were the ones that got us in the war. A few days later, Hitler declared war on us anyway. Where did FDR fight first? Europe.
Think of it in the same terms many think of today in the ME. Afghanistan attacked the US, but we also went to war in Iraq and made it the main front. In the big picture, we are still fighting AlQuida, but you won't convince everybody of that.
I can't remember the name of the program now, but there was a program on the History channel that covered this period of time and named names. There were many newspapers that editorialized the same thoughts Hitler was spewing every day back in the '30's. In the '30's, you wouldn't get all that many arguments different from Adolph's about Jews and Blacks. Also, the "birth" of American socialism was breaking to the mainstream and having the government running everything during bad economic times sounded exciting.
Sound familiar?