A Third Term

There is one last chance to save the democracy George Washington founded.

That last chance is Washington himself.

 

It is 2028 and a certain president wants a third term. The Constitution shouldn’t allow it but the Supreme Court has found a workaround. The electoral system has been mangled. The media is a joke. Voters can barely be troubled to vote. A Third Term is a speculative fiction in which George Washington is snatched from his deathbed and transported to the present era. Riddled with pneumonia, possessing dentures fashioned from slave’s teeth, and saddled with an aristocratic sensibility tempered by war and religious faith, Washington will require considerable rehabilitation to pose a challenge to the man he refers to as “The Tyrant.” But a wily campaign manager and a sympathetic personal trainer are up for the job. In spite of his name and reputation, Washington’s pathway to the presidency is far from clear. Curveballs from the left and right come at him from every angle. Meanwhile, The Tyrant and his circle are oddly prepared to do battle with America’s first commander-in-chief. Slavery, sexual indiscretion, and even another visitor from the past all combine to make Candidate Washington far less than a shoe-in.