Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), 28th President (1913–1921), is Infrared's exemplar of the Anglophilic liberal-internationalist presidency — the hinge where the American republic was subordinated to the British-led world order it had fought two wars to escape.
Record
- Domestic: the Federal Reserve Act (1913) — the creation of the central bank Jackson destroyed the predecessor of; the income tax; Clayton Antitrust Act.
- Foreign: intervention in WWI (1917) after campaigning on neutrality; the Fourteen Points and League of Nations — the first attempt at a liberal world government under Anglo-American auspices.
- Domestic repression: Espionage and Sedition Acts, Palmer Raids, the suppression of the IWW and the left.
- History of the American People and his Lost Cause-inflected historiography; screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House; resegregation of the federal civil service.
Infrared treatment
Wilson completes the conquest of the republic by the Anglo-financial bloc begun with J.P. Morgan's wartime financing: the Fed, the permanent warfare-intelligence state, and liberal-universalist ideology ("making the world safe for democracy") as the mask of empire. Haz treats Wilsonianism as the original form of what later appears as neoconservatism and humanitarian interventionism — always the same content: American blood and treasure for the international order of finance (see Neo-Conservatism is Trotskyism, Harry S. Truman).