Lacking visions of better possible futures, many have been drawn towards imagining rosy stolen pasts. Yet, we are not witnessing an isolated disease of the imagination in the form of populist nostalgia. There is a broader dynamic at play鈥攏amely, the projection of certainty into the future in ways that diminish our collective ability to remake the present. This wider disease of the imagination extends beyond populist nostalgia and includes several strains with divergent political roots.