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Topic History of: U.S. 1935 novel, "It Can't Happen Here"
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Rich |
Open Mind wrote:
The U.S. inauguration of a convicted criminal Donald Trump will be remembered in history as an obscene fascist spectacle, in which the incoming president delivered a vile, hate-filled diatribe against the outgoing administration, immigrants, broad swaths of the US population that he views as enemies, the people of Latin America and, finally, the world’s population beyond the Western Hemisphere.
In a grotesque example of life imitating political fiction, Trump himself (backed by billionaire Musk brazenly delivering Nazi salutes) appeared as the incarnation of President Buzz Windrip, the brutal media con man and demagogue imagined by the great American writer Sinclair Lewis in his 1935 anti-fascist novel 'It Can’t Happen Here'.
Lewis’s dystopian novel was intended as a warning against the rise of fascism in the United States. In defense of a crisis-torn capitalism and in pursuit of profits and unlimited wealth, the American ruling class would place in power its own national version of Germany’s Hitler. Ninety years later, the grotesque inaugural ceremony of January 20, 2025 has vindicated Lewis’s warning.
Not a single Democrat walked out or objected to the barrage of fascist threats made by Trump in the course of his inaugural address.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/21/hpol-j21.html
www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here
When is Trump going to cancel the Tuesday 7th November 2028 Presidential Election then? |
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hedda |
A couple of weeks ago I watched a late 1930s British film on TV but I can't remember it's name.
It was about some kids who buy a weekly magazine called The Trump and discover it's actually published by some crooks and contains all sorts of codes for other crooks on how they can pull off robberies. |
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Open Mind |
The U.S. inauguration of a convicted criminal Donald Trump will be remembered in history as an obscene fascist spectacle, in which the incoming president delivered a vile, hate-filled diatribe against the outgoing administration, immigrants, broad swaths of the US population that he views as enemies, the people of Latin America and, finally, the world’s population beyond the Western Hemisphere.
In a grotesque example of life imitating political fiction, Trump himself (backed by billionaire Musk brazenly delivering Nazi salutes) appeared as the incarnation of President Buzz Windrip, the brutal media con man and demagogue imagined by the great American writer Sinclair Lewis in his 1935 anti-fascist novel 'It Can’t Happen Here'.
Lewis’s dystopian novel was intended as a warning against the rise of fascism in the United States. In defense of a crisis-torn capitalism and in pursuit of profits and unlimited wealth, the American ruling class would place in power its own national version of Germany’s Hitler. Ninety years later, the grotesque inaugural ceremony of January 20, 2025 has vindicated Lewis’s warning.
Not a single Democrat walked out or objected to the barrage of fascist threats made by Trump in the course of his inaugural address.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/21/hpol-j21.html
www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here |
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