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Kate Armstrong’s remark about #SinclairLewis reminded me of his vision of a #dystopian #US and a sanctuary #Canada in #ItCan’tHappenHere. I included it in my piece about how Canada figures in #American #dystopias, written in ‘24 but still painfully relevant. doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/06/what...

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Cerstin Mahlow Sep 27

Just look at the start of chapter 12 of “It can’t happen here” with an excerpt of the book of dear leader. Sound familiar, doesn’t it?

I'm still wondering whether Trump (or his writer(s)) could be sued for plagiarism?

#SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere
https://mastodon.acm.org/@CerstinMahlow/115261123054086786

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Douglas Edwards

Jun 2, 2025

@Nazani @Nonilex Fascist egotism gets them fighting each other as soon as they think they have the upper hand. Think #NightOfTheLongKnives. In Sinclair Lewis's cautionary tale #ItCantHappenHere, there are three or four changes of #dictator in a fairly short time, due to assassinations — not by an opposition, but by rival fascists.

Evan Genest Apr 9, 2025

Michael Brenner, p. 243 “Who would come to the aid of the Jews in this situation?…viewed as only the beginning of a wave of expulsions against foreigners…”
#authoritarianism #itcanthappenhere

jackhutton 🇺🇸Mar 16, 2025

Déjàvu. This all seems so–familiar, right? Like, we've done this all before. But, that can't be. Can it? It can't happen here, right?..

Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. Richard Widmark as prosecutor Col. Tad Lawson; directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.

#history #pastisprologue #historyrepeats #richardWidmark #stanleyKramer #1960s #itcanthappenhere

cobalt Mar 10, 2025

Apologies to my normie friends. Someone just described me as having no more F’s to give. Damn right. I was 15 listening to my brother’s Freak Out album on my suitcase record player. When one begins to pay attention to lyrics instead of danceable Top 40 hits, there is a lot to learn.

Posted #ForNoParticularReason #Zappa #ItCantHappenHere #FreakOut
https://youtu.be/svdrAHn_LGo?si=ReT4jxOMCgEfSwOy

Frank Zappa - It Can't Happen Here

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Dale Hagglund Mar 2, 2025

Holy shit, this video from The Lincoln Project is kick-ass.

#trump #uspoli #fascism #coup #authoritarianism #ItCantHappenHere

https://media.hachyderm.io/cache/media_attachments/files/114/090/206/279/994/760/original/4e05f46fecd36895.mp4

tomwsmf Feb 26, 2025

Occupational forces in a post #fascist nation....the #future in the past. Study up me droogies.

#billywilder #marlenadietrich #itcanthappenhere #whocouldimagine #fallingingoosestepagain
https://youtu.be/JUEKREh9VUg?feature=shared

Controversy and Comedy in Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair

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The Practical Progressive Feb 3, 2025

"Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're a country of freemen."

"The answer to that," suggested Doremus Jessup, "if Mr. Falck will forgive me, is 'the hell it can't!' Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America."

https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/485890499/excerpt-it-cant-happen-here

#sinclairlewis #itcanthappenhere #fascism