![]() ![]() “We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.” “We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we must also look out for ours,” says Roth’s Lindbergh of the Jews. He takes over a fractured Republican Party and campaigns against the advice of consultants and politicians, flying his own plane around the country, offering plainspoken denunciations of interventionism and identity politics. Roth’s Lindbergh sweeps to the presidency on, literally, an “America First!” ticket. ![]() ![]() ![]() As we mourn Roth’s passing, it is worth remembering his warning. In 2004, Philip Roth published The Plot Against America, a work of alternative historical fiction imagining a world where Charles Lindbergh drove Franklin D. Assessing “an inbox full of novels promising fascist regimes, stolen elections, unhinged presidents, and the looming threat of nuclear war,” Hane worried that “these authors are not writing the political moment so much as the moment is writing them.”īut one author did write this political moment, and he died last week. On March 30, literary agent Erik Hane wrote a lament about the way Donald Trump’s presidency loomed over the drafts crossing his desk. ![]()
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