New Year’s Prediction for 2025

I’m sidestepping 2024 and moving directly to 2025 (without passing go or collecting two hundred dollars). My prediction for 2025 is that if Donald Trump is re-elected, he’ll move White House operations to Mar-a-Lago. I think it would go something like this…

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Donald Trump vs. Ferris Fremont

Comparing Donald Trump with the fictional president of an authoritarian state conjured up by SF writer Philip K. Dick. Listen to a short audiobook clip and see what resonates with you.

Radio Free Albemuth is a novel by P.K. Dick written in 1976, published posthumously in 1985. It’s not a final draft, and so has an improvisatory air that’s sometimes enjoyable, sometimes not.

Despite its flaws, there’s a lot to like; but I’m not reviewing the book here, or dealing with the totality of its plot and vision of America in the mid-70s, nor with Dick’s unique brand of gnosticism. My narrow purpose today is to compare a Philip K. Dick character — Ferris F. Fremont — with a Republican Party character — Donald J. Trump.