Interview · moment 22 of 30
The 75-Year Regime Cycle: Lincoln, FDR, and the Birth of the Deep State
from The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310 · #310
7 min
Guest
Curtis lays out his theory that the US undergoes a monarchical regime change roughly every 75-80 years, using Lincoln and FDR as examples of young insurgent 'startup' presidencies that eventually calcify into oligarchic deep-state bureaucracies.
- FDR's regime as a university-driven revolution of the upper class and the 500 families that actually matter in America
- Tim compares FDR to Trump: both vain and charming, but FDR delegates effectively while Trump obsesses over people becoming bigger than him
- Trump would make an excellent chairman of the board, a promotion from CEO, and should think of himself as CEO emeritus
- The deep state was created by trusting experts, originally a Turkish term popularized by Steve Sailer and Peter Dale Scott
- US foreign policy geostrategic thinking has devolved to the level of let's collect all the viruses
- Theodore White's Making the President describes the New Frontier and how Kennedy world had monarchical edges that FDR's regime developed
- FDR wasn't technically a hereditary monarch but hereditary succession and monarchical attributes started forming in his era
- Kennedy had Robert Frost read at his inauguration; Biden had Amanda Gorman—one of these things is maybe not quite like the other
- Someone who remembered the New Deal found the New Frontier dull and drab by comparison—the startup energy of the Roosevelt era was like working at Google in 2003
- A Harvard graduate in 1936 with an economics degree would get called to DC, put in an office with five million dollars, and told to electrify Arkansas with no further instruction
- The New Deal actually got things done, which created enormous faith in the powers of US government at that time
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