Interview · moment 24 of 30
FDR Picks Harry Truman: Founding the Figurehead Presidency
from The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310 · #310
4 min
Guest
Curtis explains FDR's calculated choice of the obscure, weak Harry Truman as successor in 1944 as a deliberate move to prevent any single person from commanding the deep state, birthing the era of the figurehead president running through Eisenhower and Nixon.
- FDR decides to found a regime that will outlast him, meaning America must stop being a monarchy.
- Comparing modern figures like Susan Rice and John Bolton to historical standards—calling them pygmies compared to their predecessors.
- FDR's pharaonic move: picking Harry Truman as VP in 1944, a nobody with limited intelligence and no progressive credentials.
- This selection was FDR's finest stroke because he ensures his successor won't have the gravitas to command the deep state.
- Recounting Alexander the Great's deathbed moment when he whispered 'to the strongest,' contrasting it with FDR's opposite strategy.
- Eisenhower openly admits he doesn't know what's going on, exemplifying the weak-president pattern established by Truman.
- Bolton and Barr hold the same delusion that they can make the government work by being the 'grown-ups in the room.'
- The architects of the New Deal become the heads of institutions that are now more powerful than the president they serve.
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