An imaginary US leader stands in the Oval Office, with the shape of the military reflected on the curtains.
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Novelists have taken such fears further, imagining the overthrow of American democracy by a charismatic dictator: President Buzz Windrip in Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” (1935), Nehemiah Scudder in Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi series “If This Goes On” (1941), Charles Lindbergh in Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” (2004). President Scudder, a preacher-turned-politician from the boondocks, wins the election of 2012. The election of 2016 is then cancelled.
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