The 2025 Fall Semester ASHAT Analysis

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It’s the year 2025 and, in Donald Trump’s America, all high school seniors are given a semester-long examination known as the American Scholastic and Holistic Aptitude Test. As part of the EVP (extreme vetting process), the ASHAT analyzes students’ intellect, Christian values, and commitment to making America great again. Passing the ASHAT grants a student entry into Trump University 2.0 and their right to vote. But if they fail? Well, only the FBI knows what happens to the students who fail.

The 2025 Fall Semester ASHAT tests students on The Patriots Way, a novel chosen for its subject matter, an examination of the forgotten American. Set in the dystopian past of 2007, ten years before President Trump, The Patriots Way follows Irving Hodges,