@spaf Here in Canada, I grew up reading lots of fantasy and speculative fiction to envisioned possible futures - usually about what happened to the United States and the rest of the world. This one never came up. :bl46:
They say spec fiction isn't really much good at predicting the future. Better at commenting on the present, slantwise.
Two counterexamples that hit hard today:
Robert A. Heinlein's "If This Goes On—" / "Revolt in 2100," where a televangelist rules a Christofascist U.S. dystopia.
Octavia Butler's "Earthseed" books, where a fascist president terrorizes a climate-ravaged hellscape while promising to "Make America Great Again."