Trump supporters pledging to vote in primary elections A few years ago, a friend of mine recommended that I read one of Sinclair Lewis' later works, a novel called It Can't Happen Here . Writing in the 1930's, Lewis imagined what a fascist government would look like in the United States, his work rebutting the idea that such an idea was impossible in a nation that took so much pride in democratic principles. From his vantage point, this outcome was not impossible in the slightest. With figures like the pro-fascist radio priest Father Coughlin, and Louisiana governor Huey Long prominent in those years, an American version of fascism in power was all too easy to imagine. In the novel, Senator "Buzz" Windrip wins election to the Presidency after promising a return to American greatness, one that had no place for outsiders, dissenters, and minority groups. While cloaking himself in the rhetoric and symbols of American patriotism, his inauguration ushers in a r...
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