Gasoline prices were rising in the late 1990s, and the Republican presidential candidate vowed to fix this problem.
George W. Bush had only one more errand to complete before he won the 2000 election and to do that, he would have to work in peace. He quickly made his way to the Library of Congress, underneath which was his lair, filled to the brim with herbs, spices, potions, talismans, and books. He smoothly walked to the podium at the front of the room. An anthology of Latin incantations lay open on the platform.
Bush had studied this book cover to cover, knew it forwards and backwards. He flipped to a page marked with a neon orange tab and read aloud, "Magna Ex Inferno Daemonem! Affer Mihi Cupiditates!"
There was a flash of light, blinding Bush for a few seconds, but then the world came back into view.
A world with a new American president.