Excerpt from HeatStreet
Written by Cathy Young
In 2005, the brilliant Russian writer Dmitry Bykov published a collection of satirical political fables under the title How Putin Became President of the USA. The title story, written shortly after the 2000 election in the United States, offered a darkly whimsical fantasy version of the George W. Bush-Al Gore race that turns into such a farce that by the end of the campaign, “America was out of its mind from political correctness, debauchery and mutual mudslinging.” (Sounds familiar, no?)
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Finally, “The American people looked at all this and asked themselves, ‘Good Lord, what has happened to us? What sort of choice is that? Maybe they’re on to something in Russia, where the successor is appointed by fiat.” As a result, Vladimir Putin becomes President of the United States by special invitation. (Result: He screws up the economy but puts an end to political correctness.)