Satire is engulfing us like never before—from SNL’s Trump takedowns to the liberal hysteria associated with the new administration’s position on…everything.
The first notable fictional satire of the Trump Presidency has already been written and is coming out later this month. But it’s an anti-political correctness swipe at liberal fantasy and leftist overreaction. Like much of the pro-Trump literature out there, the work is written under a pseudonym.
My Safe Space by “Special Snowflake” imagines an alternate reality where Bernie Sanders wins the election and gluten-free pastries are all the rage. The book’s plot is summarized on Amazon : “Unable to cope with the reality of President Trump, Special Snowflake wishes on a star to enter an alternate reality where everything is the way she wants wants it to be, with President Sanders in the White House and gluten-free pastries in every Starbucks.
“But when she wakes up on January 21 and reads on Facebook that the inauguration never happened, that Trump decided to cancel at the last minute, she can’t believe her wish came true. That just doesn’t happen…right? Special Snowflake begins to question everything and can’t decide which is worse: a reality she can’t accept or a dream that isn’t real.”
Speculation is swirling in conservative literary circles as to the identity of “Special Snowflake.” One publishing source told Heat Street it bore the hallmarks of anti-safe space comedian and writer Adam Carolla, while another said he wouldn’t “be at all surprised” if NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald had written it. Rectenwald until recently fiercely criticized safe spaces and political correctness using the @DeplorableNYUProf Twitter account.
Fiction in the Trump era is beginning to take off with novelists Salman Rushdie and Howard Jacobson currently writing novels about the climate of opposition to the new President.
My Safe Space is out as a Kindle First on February 20.
