The Plot Against America review — what if the president sympathised with Nazism?

The Plot Against America(Sky Atlantic)

Cursed(Netflix)

Once Upon a Time in Iraq(BBC Two)

“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States,” wrote Tom Wolfe, “and yet lands only in Europe.” Granted, that’s a more challenging viewpoint today than it was, say, a decade ago, but God, let’s just not go there or else we’ll be here all day.

Ben Cole and John Turturro in The Plot Against America

HBO

It fell to Wolfe’s less Waspy contemporary Philip Roth (and I do mean Waspy, but now I think about it he was less waspy too) to imagine how an American landing might look, with his novel The Plot Against America in 2004. It’s an alternative history in which the real-life flying ace Charles Lindbergh, who was also an alleged Nazi