It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

[guno]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

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[guno]

and of course washing machine boi never read anything other then, modern goober laughs

 

[Wyatt earp]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

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Anyone thinking here Ross perot or John Anderson?

 

[pismoe]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

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----------------------------------- Go TRUMP !! just a polite comment Guno .

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Authoritarian appeal?? HAHAHA. That would be obozo and hillary. Democrats are fascists who want the govt running everything. Conservatives want to LIMIT govt. THINK

 

[2aguy]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

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You think Trump is going to be the authoritarian.....even if he gets elected the establisment republicans, the media, the democrats will all be trying to get in his way....

hilary the criminal gets elected...the Republicans won't stand up to her because she is a woman, the media and democrats will be behind her and she will use whatever she has to to gather more power.....

you have no clue what you are talking about......

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

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You think Trump is going to be the authoritarian.....even if he gets elected the establisment republicans, the media, the democrats will all be trying to get in his way....

hilary the criminal gets elected...the Republicans won't stand up to her because she is a woman, the media and democrats will be behind her and she will use whatever she has to to gather more power.....

you have no clue what you are talking about......

Have you ever seen V For Vendetta? It's an invincible Leftist delusion that an authoritarian government would arise from conservatives in spite of all evidence demonstrating that authoritarianism is an organic corollary of socialist policy. It's one of many reasons "liberalism is a mental disorder". They are seriously that delusional.

 

[2aguy]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

.

You think Trump is going to be the authoritarian.....even if he gets elected the establisment republicans, the media, the democrats will all be trying to get in his way....

hilary the criminal gets elected...the Republicans won't stand up to her because she is a woman, the media and democrats will be behind her and she will use whatever she has to to gather more power.....

you have no clue what you are talking about......

Have you ever seen V For Vendetta? It's an invincible Leftist delusion that an authoritarian government would arise from conservatives in spite of all evidence demonstrating that authoritarianism is an organic corollary of socialist policy. It's one of many reasons "liberalism is a mental disorder". They are seriously that delusional.

Yes...the left in hollywood doesn't understand that Conservatism...especially the american conservatism seeks to limit government power...that is why we have a Constitution that limits what the government can do and spells our very specifically what it can't do.....

And that formula does not lead to an authoritarian government...when you split up power, and make the 3 branches fight to keep their own power from the others...you are not concentrating power in the hands of one or a few people...and therefore you can't have authoritarian government.....

I just watched an interview with Ben Shapiro....a Libertarian pundit.....and he pointed out something that I have tried to use in demonstrating this point......

He stated that Government is the Ring of Power...if you understand the Lord of the Rings......and he is exactly right.....if you notice...those who go into government office....usually turn into corrupt, greedy a******s....that is why conservatives want to limit access to government and why democrats want control of the government....

I always imagine the Council of Elrond where they are trying to decide what to do with the Ring.....and it is explained that anyone who has the Ring will eventually become a soulless, evil creature enslaved to the power of the ring.....then I imagine a guy like ted kennedy....."Yeah...but it will give me unlimited power..right?"

 

[sealybobo]

Satire from 80 years ago is played out in real life with dumph


After Windrip’s coup at the Democratic convention, he won a three-way race when the other two candidates split the reasonable vote. Once elected, President Windrip appealed directly to his core constituency of unprosperous and resentful white mento help him repress dissent and bring fascism to America. It’s a chilling historical lesson, even though it didn’t actually happen.

Windrip’s election is the beginning of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” rather than actual American history. A wonderful example of prophylactic fiction, Lewis used his position as one of the nation’s top novelists to show his countrymen exactly how authoritarianism could rear its head in the land of liberty. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long (better remembered in literary history for inspiring Robert Penn Warren’s “All The King’s Men”) and the reelection of Franklin Roosevelt rendered Lewis’s warning moot for a time, but 80 years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary.

Like Trump, Windrip uses a lack of tact as a way to distinguish himself. Americans know on some level that the country’s governing system has never conformed to its official values.

When it comes to making America great again, Trump promises to wheel-and-deal like the savvy businessman he keeps telling us he is. Instead of just implying their cynicism through participation in the electoral process like a normal politician, Buzz and Trump put it in their “pro” column. “We probably will have to lick those Little Yellow Men some day, to keep them from pinching our vested and rightful interests in China,” Windrip writes of Japan in “Zero Hour,” “but don’t let that keep us from grabbing off any smart ideas that those cute little beggars have worked out!” Any American president will be a thieving imperialist bastard, but these guys promise voters they will be the best thieving imperialist bastards.

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal

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