The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" suggests that perhaps U.S. society is one election surprise away from fascism.

Roth imagines a United States in the 1940s in which Charles Lindbergh beats Franklin Roosevelt for President of the United States. U.S. isolation grows stronger after it signs a non-aggression pact with Germany and Japan. Britain grows weaker, and Lindbergh's cabinet and the Republican congress enact a series of anti-semitic laws.

The Roth family, enjoying the rising working class/middle class fruits of life in mid-20th century America suddenly sees its world ripped apart.

In 2017, Philip Roth said: "It is easier to comprehend the election of an imaginary President like Charles Lindbergh than an actual President like Donald Trump. Lindbergh, despite his Nazi sympathies and racist proclivities, was a great aviation hero ... Trump is just a con artist."
–New Yorker Magazine, January 30, 2017

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