Trump's first 10 days in office have catapulted George Orwell's classic novel 1984 to the top of the bestseller list, and many will be better off for having read it. 1984 was Orwell's dystopian vision of what English Socialism, or 'IngSoc,' might lead to. In the real world, the year 1984 came and went without Orwell's nightmarish future being realized, but a lesser known work of his, The Road to Wigan Pier, succeeded where 1984 had failed. Written in the 1930's, it provides an eerily accurate foreshadowing of Trump's election and how problems with the political Left's public image helped drive voters to the opposite extreme.
"There is a quite obvious danger that in the next few years large sections of the middle class will make a sudden and violent swing to the Right. In doing so they may become formidable. The weakness of the middle class hitherto has lain in the fact that they have never learned to combine; but if you frighten them into combining against you, you may find that you have raised up a devil."
-Orwell, 1930s
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