Short list of fictional films that are now documentaries, or how human history throws us scenarios no novelist or screenwriter could ever invent:

1. The Handmaid’s Tale of forced births.

2. Idiocracy. Its producers could never imagined government by dumbest student I ever had Trump, Musk-ovite govt welfare queen, RFK Jr., bottle bottom-fisher NGO-killer Hegseth, space laser fantasist MTG, Boebert the BJ BeetleJuicer, FBI led by conspiracist children’s book writer Kash Patel.

3. Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America with the genocidal kleptocrat being a Russian KGB veteran instead of German Nazi.

4. The Man in the High Castle, with Washington nuked by Russian asymmetric hybrid disinformation warfare and money laundering instead of a kinetic nuke. Why incur unnecessary radiation cleanup costs?

5. The Manchurian Candidate being a wannabe real estate developer from Queens who saved himself from serial bankruptcies with a reality TV show.