I've been looking around at what people have written about Tom Disch. This convinces me his work is still timely, and was prescient long before the field caught up about the political climate and its trajectories: One of the more thorough reviews I've found.
"Disch, though, was ahead of his time. The American heartland of his novels, contemporary or future, now seems eerily prescient. It’s not that these trends weren’t visible in the 60s and 70s, but Disch foresaw their eventual impact in the post-Cold War age that his peers mostly did not. Frequently evoking the American grotesques of Poe and Lovecraft, he brought out the ghastly ignorance that increasingly defines American political life. He exaggerates, but the uncanny familiarity of the caricature is scary."
Yup.
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