In 2006, Terry Crews offered a glimpse of the future when he donned the star-spangled boots and leotard of President Camacho for Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. A simple comedy in its heyday, the film was about a schlub from the 2000s traveling to a distant future where Americans had elected a pro wrestler turned reality star as commander-in-chief. It was a future dominated by Crews’ well-coiffed Camacho.

Barely a decade later, the same joke seems downright prophetic, a preview of the troubled and turbulent times that were to come after a reality star really became president. The times have been so troubled, in fact, that a kind of miracle occurred at SXSW during this past weekend: President Camacho returned to us, and he’s come to save America from itself!

Once again sporting the legendary attire he wore in Idiocracy, Crews’ President Camacho arrived at the film, music, and tech festival with a simple,...