![]() Roosevelt in the election of 1940 on a Nazi-sympathetic, non-interventionist platform - views Lindbergh had in real life - and gradually (but not that gradually) turns America into a fascist nation where Jews become second-class citizens. ![]() The limited series is based on a 2004 novel by Philip Roth in which celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh beats Franklin D. It's a chilling and effective reflection of American life in the past five years and semi-paranoid fantasy of where the country could head, with a remarkable level of craft in its acting, writing, and direction. The way that Miller's classic play used the historical analogy of the Salem witch trials to comment on the then-present McCarthy era, during which the federal government persecuted suspected Communists supposedly occupying places of power in the United States, The Plot Against America uses an alternate-history version of America during World War II to comment on America's authoritarian rightward slide in the Trump era. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Plot Against America, HBO's six-episode limited series from The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns, is an allegory in the vein of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. ![]()
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