The Onion predicts the future of politics from 1993.

Proving life will always become dumber and more ludicrous than you can predict. Joe the Plumber meet Roy the Forklift Driver.

Onion headline from 1993: Roy The Forklift Driver addresses nation - Boing Boing:

"The May 29, 1993 edition of The Onion has a preposterous fake story about a character named Roy the Forklift driver becoming a media darling of the conservative movement.