Hoover
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Hoover is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 20, 2021 and August 11, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “reading Hoover’s biography”; “FBI all the way back to Hoover was corrupt”. It most often appears alongside Hitler, Stalin, 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 20, 2021
- Last seen: August 11, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
When reading Hoover's biography, I was struck by his theory that FDR was part of the same phenomenon as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin - the US version of a worldwide longing for a fascist strongman who could come in and solve everything. Watching Gabriel Over The White House moved that from conjecture to drop-dead obvious fact.
Inline links: Hoover's biography
Yeah, my impression is that the FBI all the way back to Hoover was corrupt (to the extent that it was corrupt) not from loyalty to anybody outside but just for its own aggrandizement. This can involve doing favors for an administration when there is something to be gained, but it’s not something an aspiring tyrant could count on.