‘Dave’ Predicted the Biden Debacle

Kevin Kline stars in the 1993 Warner Bros film, ‘Dave.’ (Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)
In the Nineties film, the president ends up comatose, and his chief of staff secretly hires a body double. These days, the plot feels eerily familiar.
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