Thread by @Will_Tanner_1

In my opinion, FDR was one of the evilest men in American history, particularly since he bankrupted the British while simultaneously aiding the Soviets with no strings attached

The result was communism controlling half the world, killing tens of millions in the process🧵👇

First, FDR had used his power well before the Second World War to destroy old America

He not only was a class traitor whose own family despised him, as @NormanDodd_knew pointed out in a recent podcast, but used the "New Deal" to demolish non-leftist power and rule across the country

Particularly, he would ensure that funds were withheld from those jurisdictions and localities that were politically opposed to him, hindering relief and recovery for those who simply wanted to live like Americans ought rather than being part of some socialist hellhole.

He then directed the funds only toward New Dealers, ensuring that those who pushed his brand of socialism and Big Government, both of which were formerly abhorrent to Americans, and solidified the power of such thought in the country

And, of course, he destroyed the legitimacy of SCOTUS by browbeating it and threatening it with court packing to get it to go along with his unconstitutional, un-American agenda

As a result of FDR's firehose of money to socialists, Old America, a land of ordered liberty, small government, and little regulation, died

What replaced it was the bureaucratic state of today: a massive governmental apparatus, welfare and social aid programs, high taxes to pay for it, a predilection for relying on the national government rather than community members, and federal agencies that reach into every aspect of formerly private life

As might be expected of such a man, FDR didn't just push socialism on the country

He also filled his administration, from the Cabinet-level positions to minor bureaucrats, with Communist Party members

For example, Harry Hopkins was a Soviet agent; he was close with FDR and headed much of the New Deal, then handled American WWII relations with Britain and the USSR, with which he was quite friendly

Then, as Whitaker Chambers, himself a former Soviet agent, exposed in "Witness" and Congressional hearings, much of the low-level bureaucracy was full of Soviet agents

That included men like Alger Hiss, who "aided" FDR at Yalta and was behind closed doors with FDR as he handed Europe to Stalin, letting communism advance like a murderous wave across half of Europe

Then there's World War II

FDR has a reputation for saving our Anglo brothers across the ocean, which isn't true

Instead, he bankrupted the Empire, drawing every last ounce of gold out of Britain and taking over its bases. The Brits even had to confiscate wedding rings to pay for the outdated equipment, from rust bucket old destroyers to near-useless airplanes, that FDR sent them

He also prodded the Germans into war with us by sending US destroyers to, under the flag of neutrality, sink German U-boats or radio their locations to the British, much as Wilson had done during WWI

Meanwhile, as @realDianaWest exposed well in "American Betrayal," and Sean McMeekin notes in "Stalin's War," FDR did everything possible, well beyond necessity, to aid the Soviets

In addition to the weapons and equipment, from trucks and tanks to planes and trains, we sent in massive numbers, FDR provided them with all the bases of American success. Industrial secrets, intellectual property, factory processes and equipment, and so on, were sent to the Soviets en masse, along with vast amounts of raw materials. The Soviets were, as Diana West exposes, allowed to steal whatever secrets they wanted, whatever the cost to American business and industry, as a matter of FDR policy

None of that was done for the British. They got to bleed themselves dry financially while the Soviets were freely given whatever they asked for

The aid to the Soviets continued even as the war's end was a foregone conclusion, and much of it ended up in the hands of post-war communist guerillas, while the industrial aid led to Soviet economic might that long threatened Europe and challenged America

Meanwhile, as the Soviets were given all they wanted, they also tormented our men and even imprisoned Americans in their slave labor camps

Sailors who braved U-boats to deliver supplies were berated and demeaned, and airmen who landed in the USSR were often thrown in gulags. At the end of the war, potentially 15,000 Americans remained imprisoned in the USSR, never to be released. Neither FDR nor Truman did anything of note to help them; even non-military, economic aid wasn't conditioned on their release

So, like the German units and Eastern Europeans that FDR handed to the communists, thousands of Americans rotted and died in Soviet slave labor camps thanks to FDR

Then there's the matter of war policy. "Unconditional surrender" needlessly prolonged the war and led to the Soviets r*ping and killing their way across Eastern Europe, r*ping millions, if not tens of millions, of women and killing millions of civilians

FDR's Morgenthau pressed to deindustrialize Germany after the war, something that would have meant endless suffering and yet more Soviet power over Europe, as there would be no German bulwark. FDR entertained the idea

Meanwhile, Ideas like invading through the Balkans to block off Soviet forces from invading Europe were scorned, and instead we trodded across France and Germany as the Soviets gobbled up territory

Throughout the war offers from the Germans to kill Hitler and replace him in exchange for peace and an alliance against the Red Menace were shunned; instead, FDR wanted the Soviets to march across Europe and commit endless atrocities as they did so

FDR was all on board with such behavior

A particularly gut-wrenching story shows that: during the Tehran conference, Stalin said the Allies should execute 100,000 German officers after the war to break the back of Prussia.

Roosevelt joked that, "maybe 49,000 would be enough." His son and aides laughed

Only Churchill was outraged and stormed out, and it was only at that point that Stalin pretended he was joking.

Then after the war, Americans and Brits often handed German units to the Soviets, who proceeded to work them to death in slave labor camps, well exceeding the 100k Stalin initially suggested

FDR, though dead for most of that, would have been all on board with that, as Truman was

So, if a man is to be judged by his accomplishments, what did FDR achieve?

The r*pe and murder of half of Europe

The turning of the Soviets into a global hegemon, armed and industrialized by America

The bankruptcy and demolition of the British Empire

The destruction of Old America and replacement of it with a bureaucratic welfare state administered largely by Soviet agents of the Alger Hiss and Harry Hopkins mold

In short, pretty much all of it was evil, worst case scenario for the formerly free world

FDR is regarded as a savior of sorts

If you're a communist or Soviet sympathizer, I suppose that's true

But if you support Western civilization, if you view the modern bureaucratic welfare state with horror and despise what the Soviets did to Europe and the post-colonial world, often with the aid of communist run-America, then FDR was one of the most evil men America has produced

And following WW2, of course, was the Cold War “against” our former “ally”…

But what was that period really about?

I wrote about that here: theamericantribune.news/p/egalitariani…