BRYAN R. SMITH via Getty ImagesIn 2004, Philip Roth published an all too prescient novel titled The Plot Against America. Roth denied that The Plot Against America was intended as a comment on current political events. In Roth's fictional America under Lindbergh in 1942, there is still a free press, though he does describe the assassination of a leading media critic. In The Plot Against America, Roth imagines that in 1942, liberal leaders fight back. John Lewis was right that this president has no legitimacy, just as Philip Roth's imagined mother was right to feel that "it isn't like living in a normal country anymore."

Source: Huffington Post January 15, 2017 22:54 UTC