Sinclair Lewis

Reading Sinclair Lewis’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’. Excellent and timely satirical rendering of Nazism/Fascism. Way too familiar (writing as a UK observer). Prescient? Yes, a lot. Best joke? The president’s surname is ‘Windrip’ and, like ‘Trump’, a euphemism for a noisy, obnoxious fart.

Spoiler alert: good summary here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here

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