Introducing the Trump Story Project

Alas, a quick Google search told me that the territory had already been covered. I shouldn't have been surprised. The plot of Plot, in which the fascist sympathizer Charles Lindbergh ascends to the presidency on tailwinds of celebrity and America First populism, speaks with vivid and distressing clarity to the present moment. Philip Roth is not a science-fiction writer, but his novel is part of a long and sturdy tradition within sci-fi: the "alternate history." Take some crucial moment in history and undo it or do it differently.