It Can't Happen Here (but it’s happening anyway)

American Thinker ^ | 14 Jan, 2021 | Tricia Henry

[MtnClimber]

"It Can't Happen Here" was a successful novel by Sinclair Lewis, written as a warning to Americans that their nation could easily follow the path of Weimar Germany.

It Can't Happen Here chronicles the fictional devolution of America into a rightwing fascist hellhole via the election of an unscrupulous demagogue as President. Lewis, of course, wrote his book as a warning to Americans that their nation could easily follow the path of Weimar Germany where Hitler and his Brownshirts threatened and manipulated their way to power in a shamed, defeated, and angry nation.

This unhappy novel was resurrected by the always imaginative American left with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, where Trump was depicted as the lying demagogue and his voters as the crypto-fascist, racist cellar dwellers who were being brought to power with him. Trump's call for a reemergence of American spirit and greatness after decades of denigration and retreat, sellout and hollowing out by a succession of Democrat and Republican administrations, was drawn as a parallel to the revanchist rhetoric and plans of Hitler.

What a handy trope this was to galvanize the stunned American left as it, along with that paragon of personal revanchism, Hillary Clinton, struggled to explain their electoral loss to the capitalist Orange Man. They did what the left has always done to denigrate its opponents: Insult and attack them as cruel monsters, Nazis, Fascists, murderers, and exploiters.

[linMcHlp]

According to the Democrat Party and all left-ism, our fathers who landed at the Normandy Beaches, June 1944, were fascists.

[Vaduz]

Was Sinclair Lewis gay?.

[gathersnomoss]

“It Can’t Happen Here”
Who could imagine
That they would freak out
In Washington, DC

FZ saw it coming...

[MtnClimber]

I have no idea if he was gay. Why do you ask?

[Vaduz]

Sounds like it his views?.