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Fiction exists in case something like The Plot Against America might happen. I clutched my chest reading portions of it. My God.

We are doing many of the things described in Roth’s prescient 2004 novel today, with our own variants—most of all being that the puppet master is Putin, and the president is Trump.

Katherine Stewart has penned a thorough and enlightening backgrounder on how Christian nationalism came to power in the United States. As she noted at the time of writing in 2019, the anti-democracy movement would soon have enough power to realize its vision in the United States. And oof, now we are here.

Yesterday I ran my seventh marathon. I walked a good bit. Not because I was hurt, but because I decided I had no business running a marathon. When I read Holly Goddard Jones I believe I have no business writing.