Photograph by Fay Godwin
The son of an English businessman, J. G. Ballard was born and raised in Shanghai. For the past twenty-odd years, he has lived more or less anonymously in Shepperton, a dingy, nondescript suburb of London lying under the approach to Heathrow Airport. Ballard’s writing is so often situated within the erotic, technical, postholocaust landscape, and so often concerned with the further reaches of postmodern consciousness, that it is inevitably rather droll to come upon the man himself. On first meeting, Ballard is standing somewhat shyly in the doorway of a modest two-story dwelling similar to all the others on the block; one would take him as a typical suburban lord of the manor. He is wearing a brown sweater over his shirt, protected against the faint chill of a summer afternoon.
President Trump is openly floating the idea of running again for president in 2024 if he loses his current legal fight in the courts.
While some are excited, that plan could complicate the lives of other Republicans with their eyes on the White House and the party as a whole.
Many experts agree Donald Trump is unique in the strength he would have as a one-term president. The question: Will he use it to pursue the Oval Office again should efforts to claim the 2020 election fall short? He controls the loyalty of a large portion of the electorate. He obviously has the ability to finance a race, said Republican strategist Tom Rath.