timeline
  title VDH : election-year end of days scripts 1968-Sept 2026
  1968 : Population Bomb : Paul Ehrlich / Malthus frame : Humphrey vs Nixon : fertility collapse as residue
  1983-84 : Nuclear winter : Carl Sagan coinage : The Day After : Reagan Euromissiles vs Mondale
  1992 : Earth in the Balance : Gore campaign book : warming rebranded climate change / chaos : Clinton vs Bush
  2018 : MeToo as confirmation weapon : Kavanaugh : rite ends when it reaches Biden / Clinton
  2020 : COVID shutdown of a hot Trump economy : then Floyd / BLM as insurance : Fauci + street liturgy
  2024-26 : spent scripts : trans / Talarico : No Kings : Tesla / Musk : visible ICE
  Sep 2026 : AI extinction-by-2030 : Amodei + Anthropic resignation + global monitoring : simultaneous Clancy-feminist cause : 45 days to Nov 3 midterms