Cohen: How Trump turned Philip Roth into a prophet

On Oct. 5, 2004, a month before President George W. Bush was re-elected, Philip Roth published The Plot Against America. On the brown cover was a terrifying image: a one-cent U.S. postage stamp of majestic Yosemite postmarked with a swastika.
The novel was a sensation. Frank Rich, the literary critic, suggested then that the cover and the story – an alternative history placing Charles Lindberg at the head of isolationist, autocratic, pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic administration – hit a nerv