William Lindsey Oct 22, 2024

"January 30th 1933 dawned cold and clear in Berlin as Adolph Hitler took his oath of office and promised Germans he would uphold the constitution. It would ultimately take him less than 30 days to dismantle it. ...

All you need to end a democracy is a leader willing to suspend or end the Constitution and a supporting cast large enough to allow him to do it.

Republicans have both."

~ Rachel Bitecofer

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
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https://thecycle.substack.com/p/what-really-happens-if-trump-wins

What (Really) Happens If Trump Wins?

Like Hitler, Trump Has Made Clear His Plan is Dictatorship, Not Democracy

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 22, 2024

"In an echo of [Sinclair] Lewis’s bestselling 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, [Dorothy Thompson] wrote in a 1937 column: 'No people ever recognize their dictator in advance…. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the Incorporated National Will. When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model.'"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024

October 21, 2024

On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and election officials.

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Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

@wdlindsy

Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here remains a stunning portrayal of just how it can, and is in the public domain in Canada, so I can happily push this link, though of course do not visit or view the site if you're not in Canada, for Reasons. We can't go about having books about the rise of fascism distributed freely, after all.

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/lewiss-itcanthappenhere/lewiss-itcanthappenhere-00-h.html

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, from Project Gutenberg Canada

Oct 22, 2024 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 22, 2024
@theogrin Thank you. Isn't it interesting how attacks on free circulation of books and libraries — and now Internet Archive — are with us all over again as fascism marches everywhere?
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Oct 22, 2024

@wdlindsy

Interesting, yes. Surprising, no.

I swear, every single godsbedamned politician yelling their lungs out about 'free speech' is working, openly or otherwise, to shut down every library in the world.

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 22, 2024
@theogrin Surprising, no. Interesting, yes.