THE CURRENT → THE BEAT Issue 925 · August 24, 2022

America, 2030

It’s a far-fetched, dystopian vision— could it ever come to pass?

America, 2030
America, 2030

IT was dawn when agents swooped down on the home of the House Speaker, far-left Democrat Jamaal Bowman. The New York congressman, who’d risen to fame as a member of the progressive “Squad,” had been swept to power in the Blue Wave that came as a response to Donald Trump’s second term in office.

It was the same swing of the pendulum that had led to the mind-boggling sight of AOC — a self-styled “democratic socialist” — as the first female occupant of the Oval Office.

But on this chilly winter morning, Speaker Bowman was powerless as the agents wearing black DJI coats roamed over his Washington home confiscating documents and computer devices.

The Directorate of Judicial Intelligence had been built on the wreckage of the FBI. Back in 2024, when a 78-year-old President Trump had been re-elected on the back of a conservative revolt against the unprecedented hounding of the former president, the new administration had laid waste to the veteran agency.

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