You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era
…al order as it takes its toll on his family and his Jewish neighborhood in Newark. The Lindbergh administration adopts a kind of liberal fascism, with programs to make Jews into “better Americans” by relocating families out of their neighborhoods and into rural communities “where parents and children can enrich their Americanness over the generations.” Life becomes increasingly unbearable for America’s Jews, culminating in anti-Jewish pogroms and…
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