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[adapted from\u00a0Lying Wonders, Strangest Things<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n With all the ruckus in Washington \u2014 and what may be just the fourth U.S. president to be impeached \u2014 it is interesting to look at a remarkable series of books written more than a century ago, novels that had astonishingly prophetic elements.<\/p>\n The precognitive handiwork was that of a writer and lawyer named Ingersoll Lockwood who wrote a series of novels in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n He travels to Russia in a life-changing journey during which he meets a \u201cmaster of masters\u201d named \u201cDon.\u201d<\/p>\n Possessed of a biting tongue, young Baron Trump has a personalized insult for everyone he meets (\u201cLittle Man Lump,\u201d \u201cLittle Man All Head,\u201d \u201cFlip-Flop,\u201d and \u201cSir Pendulum Legs,\u201d in case this brings to mind \u201cLittle Marco\u201d and \u201cCrooked Hillary\u201d). His own full name is actually Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp\u2014German, as the future president is part German\u2014and constantly finding himself in quandaries that he must then escape.<\/p>\n Like the 45th future president, \u201cBaron Trump\u201d preferred familiar comfort food over exotic cuisine (McDonald\u2019s, anyone?). And where, you might wonder, in Longwood\u2019s novels, did Baron Trump live?<\/p>\n A century later, Donald J. Trump, of Trump Tower (on Fifth Avenue) would build a casino in Atlantic City named\u2014\u201cTrump\u2019s Castle.\u201d So close are the parallels that some have come to the conclusion\u2014rather wildly\u2014that President Trump was a time-traveler.<\/p>\n Conspiracists and delusionists alike wonder, if Trump inherited a travel machine, perhaps one designed by the inventor-genius-eccentric Nikola Tesla, with whom President Trump\u2019s uncle, an MIT graduate, was an acquaintance. Lockwood was from Ossining, New York, the son of Munson Ingersoll, who founded a bank and was an intimate friend of Henry Clay. Ingersoll followed in dad\u2019s footsteps, at one point appointed Consul to the Kingdom of Hanover by Abraham Lincoln. On his return he established a legal practice in New York City, dying in 1918 at the ripe old age (by nineteenth\u00a0century standards) of seventy-seven, after writing Alice in Wonderland-type tales.<\/p>\n Uncanniest of all:\u00a0Lockwood\u2019s final novel was published in 1896. It was about an election and describes a \u201cstate of uproar\u201d in New York City over an outsider winning the U.S. presidency. The name \u201cTrump\u201d is not in this Lockwood work, but the links are both clear and mystifying\u2014 focused on street protests in front of \u201cCastle Trump\u201d following the stunning victory of a populist candidate.<\/p>\n \u201cMobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years,\u201d Lockwood wrote. \u201cThe Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob,\u201d wrote Ingersoll. The chant: \u201cDeath to the rich man.\u201d<\/p>\n A \u201cterrible night for the great City of New York,\u201d\u00a0said the novel, which asked, \u201cWould the troops be in time to save it?\u201d The president in Lockwood\u2019s novella is paranoid over the gold standard and fears\u2014with good cause\u2014a civil war. The downfall of America is at hand. A few months after the disturbances, the president appoints a man to his cabinet\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0named \u201cPence.\u201d Oh, the shouts on the street: in November of 2016, you will recall, they were heard in various cities, including New York at Trump Tower. The title of this last Lockwood book:\u00a01900, or The Last President.<\/em><\/p>\n [adapted from\u00a0Lying Wonders, Strangest Things<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uI98Ug6ASJg\/maxresdefault.jpg\")
The titles of two, written for children:\u00a0Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger<\/em>\u00a0(1889) and\u00a0Baron Trump\u2019s Marvelous Underground Journey<\/em>\u00a0(1893). You read that name correctly. The \u201cbaron\u201d here was a title\u2014not a first name, and thus is short an \u201cr\u201d\u2014but the point remains and grows with each detail. The fictional Trump, archetype for a future president (remember, this is the nineteenth century!)\u2014is a rich kid bored with his lavish lifestyle and fixated with foreign women\u2014\u201cdistracted\u201d by them\u2014as well as the size of his brain, of which he often brags\u2014even suing a tutor for\u00a0learning more from him than he did from the tutor.<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/36\/New_York_City_Mai_2009_PD_045.JPG\")
\u201cCastle Trump\u201d on Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.playnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trumps-Castle-NJ-casino-history-online-1280x720.jpg\")
Do they have validity? You decide. Our take, as conservatives, is that there is a growing and ominous radicalization, and militancy, at both ends of the current political spectrum, auguring upheaval and perhaps something akin to a \u201ccold\u201d civil war (that could turn \u201chot\u201d).<\/p>\n
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