Roth's Novel Predicts Trump's Rise

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Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America perfectly predicts Trump’s rise, says historian

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Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America predicted a fascist takeover of the presidency in 1940 by Charles A. Lindbergh .

Historian David Gergen says the novel's themes have frighteningly come to life.

Gergen: Plot was Roth 's roman-a-clèf commentary on the George W. Bush administration.

Julian Zelizer : GOP establishment turned into cringe-worthy sycophants in 2016 after Trump won the GOP nomination.

Zelizer says GOP establishment has turned to embrace the MAGA Party .

He says it's the same sort of quiet, uncoerced moral collapse born of opportunism that Roth 's novel evokes in the 1930s and 1940s .

Julian Zelizer : Jeff Bezos' capitulation in killing the Washington Post editorial page’s endorsement of Harris .

Zelizer says it signaled another variation of moral collapse: the ability of the would-be maximum leader to bully the third -wealthiest man into silence and corporate censorship.

He says it's how dictators like Putin and Orbán shut down dissent by making press lords offers they can’t refuse.

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