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Robert A. #Heinlein foresaw the decline of American #democracy in "Revolt in 2100" (from the early 1950s!) with frightening acuity (and set the presidential election of the quite Trumpesque "prophet" only four years too early, at 2012): https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html#:~:text=%22Throw%20in,majority%20in%20Washington.%22
(via @davidbrin)
Let's hope he's not also right about the ensuing 90 years of theocratic dictatorship...