“A New Despotism”
A Cabinet FDR Predicted
“For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things….
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction…”
- FDR, DNC Acceptance Speech, 1936
Trump Administration:
President: Trump — ?
Vice President: Vance/Thiel — $13.4B
Co-President: Musk — $330B
“DOGE:” Ramaswamy — $969M
Treasury: Bessent — $1B
Education: McMahon — $3B
Interior: Burgum — $1.1B
Agriculture: Loeffler — $800M
Commerce: Lutnick — $1.5B
Energy: Wright — $171M
Mehmet Oz: $200M
I guess you have to pay to play. These picks were all rejected by the people in one way or another already. Too bad they couldn't earn the positions by their own merit.
The absurdity that people voted for change. Laughable if it weren’t so grim and ghastly.