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Definitely NOT fiction, that's for sure.
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Most MAGAts aren't literate or intelligent to understand such a book.
ShereeAnderson
It’s like a script
DuncanWilsonAuthor
Everyone should read this. The parallels are nearly uncountable.
EmporerDragon
Just about finished with the book. So many parallels. Cripes, it even has its own version of Project 2025 and the Proud Boys.
jtxyz
I have a copy of the book and I find it difficult to read. Not for the content, but for the style of prose. It was written in the 20s and it feels like it. There's a lot of long, rambling sentences and tangents. It segues off to talk about other characters. So somebody new walks into the room and then there's a paragraph about where they grew up. It just feels old.
Not that I'm trying to dissuade anyone from reading it, just warning what you'd be getting into.
Hopefully you'll find it easier.
NearHereThere
Woah
OperatorWay
nanikaprofound
Maybe THIS is Project 2025's playbook, not The Handmaid's Tale after all!
mygodhasabiggerdick
Don't forget the podcast "It Could Happen Here" with Robert Evans. Start at the beginning and once the main is over, keep listening.
It will make you fuck ahit up and get ready for what's on the horizon.
gordy77
If anyone is curious, the axe and sticks is together called a fasces.
ialwaysupvoteShibe
I started reading this when the 2016 election campaign was going on but I had to stop because it was too real.
sirfixalot
A definite "must read". It's scary the parallels there are
fartharder
If only someone had warned us
1moreStep2Go
During High School I binged authors, their entire catalogue of tales, stories, etc. Asimov was... extensive), Tolstoy was astoundingly varied (and the BIG one went toe to toe with Shogun for how long they wouldn't take me), Dostoevsky was remarkably mind-opening, but Sinclair Lewis was brilliantly uncomfortable and telling a definite gem for American Lit. I particularly enjoyed Arrowsmith & Babbitt.
RexLibris
Hooray! I don't think I've met many people ballyhooing Babbit and Arrowsmith and Dodsworth! Don't get me started on Dodsworth!
carcarodon
That was a difficult read bc. 1 it was written for the audience of 1930s USA so i had to look up sooooo many references and I'm sure i missed a lot more and 2 it's really frustrating to realise that some ppl took it as an instruction manual.
wannasee
"Parable of the Sower " by Octavia Butler, written in 1993, set between 2024-2026. LA is on fire and Americans are trying to flee the US as refugees after electing a right wing, facist president, Morpath Donner, who is gutting the government. And in the midst of this a teenager who has an "empathy disease" is trying to flee her LA home after her dad was "disappeared". Pdf:
https://archive.org/download/Black-History-Month-Library-20210825/Butler%2C%20Octavia%20-%20Parable%20of%20the%20Sower.pdf
hotrodny
It seems you can download it here:
https://freeditorial.com/en/books/it-can-t-happen-here/related-books
ganjj
I recommend the podcast “It Can Happen Here” with Robert Evan’s
EroticZombiePants
Sinclair Lewis really knew how to give his book characters epic names.
Gogoglovitch
Fun fact: both 'Trump' and 'Windrip' can be interpreted as old-timey slang for flatulence.
Ozimbah
The mini-series V was based off of this book. They wanted to do an adaptation of the book but studio execs said it was "too cerebral", so they changed it to Nazi lizard aliens. Great advertising campaign for it, did pretty well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries)
ToSisPoS
The vilifying scientists seemed far-fetched at the time. I was so young and naive.
JasonThorn
"You're only as free as the leash you're on. Pull too hard and they'll hang you by it." - Mike Donovan to his mother, a "Visitor" sympathizer
BaloneyBob
wannasee
Free downloadable version on archive.org
https://archive.org/detail">">archive.org
https://archive.org/details/itcanthappenhere00lewi_0
MyRespectableAlterEgo
His wife (Dorothy Thompson) was an incredible woman as well - theyre my dream dinner party guests. She was the first nationwide female political voice on the radio, played a huge role in encouraging women to not just vote like their husbands. She also reported on the American Nazi Party rally at MSG and got kicked out for heckling George Lincoln Rockwell - I think she's one of the few female journalists to meet Hitler as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson?wprov=sfla1
sundaymondayhippyday
So we need to write to media outlets and request Dorothy Thompson to attend events-
If they have any curiosity it may spark a current version of this amazing goddess!
Maybe fund a scholarship in her name?
NotFromFlorida
She also personally kicked out of Germany by hitler for her reporting.
Conqueeftadore
$0.60 for a paperback edition is wild
cre8majic
almost what I used to pay for a movie ticket
wannasee
Or download it for free
https://archive.org/details/itcanthappenhere00lewi_0
slack3rdav3
this one deserves a purchase to read occasionally at work.
Kittenman15
"Author of Elmer Gantry" ... good film!
Allrighty
So he just gives all his characters weird names huh
sundaymondayhippyday
Should have called himself Allrighty?!
ToSisPoS
V was a great movie.
JasonThorn
Mini-series. Two of them, actually - V, and V: The Final Battle. Also a short-lived TV series.
ToSisPoS
Yeah, they were a bit paler to the original but Ham Tyler is still a role model.
JasonThorn
Don't forget Chris Farber, his associate. Man knew how to use C4, and well, direct quote: "Listen here, my man, is there ANY doubt in your mind that I can drastically change your life, right now? (PAUSE) ...or even bring it to a CLOSE?"
ToSisPoS
GOODER.
JasonThorn
"That's short for DO-Gooder, it's a little nickname he has for me. And oh, we have...met before. Laos, El Salvador, you name it. He does the work...I take the pictures...and the folks back home HATE him for it. I'd like you all to meet Ham Tyler, master of Covert Operations, Communications, and BAD Relations."
iggylights
So next on the banned book list?
thepandasbum
I'd like to know the name of the book and year it was published.
iggylights
It Can't Happen Here 1935
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
Check to see if the work was plagiarized for the 2025 playbook.
Legomaniac91
That was a combination of this book, The Handmaid's Tale, and 1984. Because fascists have no originality, they only seem to be able to copy things from other people's work.
DaDemian
What's the deal with confusing cautionary tales for instruction manuals
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
I was gunna say - 'At least they are reading the manual'
but... Nahhh.
LuminoZero
Because it works?
Legomaniac91
Lack of critical thinking and media literacy.