When I think of the absurdity of our current reality, my mind often drifts to the 1989 movie sequel Back to the Future Part II. That’s the one where an aged Biff Tannen steals Doc Brown’s time machine to give his younger self a sports almanac that lets him amass a fortune by betting on horse races.
In this alternate reality, Biff grows ever richer and more powerful, and the town itself becomes ever more nightmarish and dystopian, until Marty and Doc show up to undo the damage. It’s sort of like if The Man in the High Castle were about teenagers.
Curious to see how Biff is described on Wikipedia, I came upon this description of the man:
Biff is portrayed as a hulking, belligerent, dim-witted bully who obtains what he wants by intimidating others into doing his work for him, or by cheating.
That, of course, is an eerily accurate description of a certain other well known person in our own reality. Now if only we could find that darned DeLorean and undo the damage…