Were you shocked when Donald Trump won the presidential election? If you had read this book, you wouldn’t have been. According to the New York Times, a philosophy book written in 1998 eerily predicted a Trump-like figure taking power.

Philosopher Richard Rorty wrote Achieving Our Country in 1998 and died in 2007, not living long enough to see his prediction come true. Slate notes that the book is really about American liberals and how they reacted to the Vietnam War, but this one prediction has given the book a new life. It got so much attention that the book is being reprinted by the Harvard University Press.

According to the New Yorker, passages from the book started to get traction on social media both before and after Trump’s win. And it’s clear why, because this is so accurate it’s downright creepy:

["M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots...

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. … All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet."

Did Rorty have a time machine or what?