Not only could it happen here, it already had happened here, and Trump is an open racist who ran on an openly racist, xenophobic, hateful platform. 168. Twitter. Facebook. We only know we’re not going back in the other direction and the only way to get from here to do is to march forward. Penguin Modern Classics released a new edition of the novel on January 20, 2017, the same day as the inauguration of Donald Trump . Trump supporters feel economically oppressed and threatened by a disappearing white majority and some Republican leaders are beginning to accept the inevitability of his nomination. DOI 10.1002/ppi.1399 ARTICLE “It can’t happen here”: Trump, authoritarianism and American politics Daniel Burston Department of Psychology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Abstract Correspondence Donald Trump’s election on November 8, 2016, alarmed many Daniel Burston, Ph.D., Department of people in the United States and around the world. The GOP After Trump. That’s the problem, isn’t it? If Trump tries to influence electoral votes post-Nov. 3, ‘it can’t happen here,’ Gardner says. Tags: It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis, Trump and Buzz Windrip comparisons, Trump and Fascism This entry was posted on May 13, 2018 at 6:08 pm and is filed under Book review, Tell the truth and run !.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. The GOP After Trump. … Mostly what I hear is some variation of, no, it can’t happen here. We really don’t know what this next month has in store for us, nor whether it will subside or get worse on January 20th. It Can’t Happen Here … Again? Doremus Jessup is editor of a small but respectable Vermont newspaper, the Daily Informer. It Can't Happen Here was a successful novel by Sinclair Lewis, selling some 300,000 copies in the Depression for the first American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1935, just after the rise of the Third Reich, Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here, a satirical novel about fascism in America. But then again, it can't happen here. Patrick Duggan discusses the fate of the Republican party in post-Trump America. Patrick Duggan - 23rd February 2021. “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith.A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Comment It Can’t Happen Here … Again? By. Following the results of the 2016 United States presidential election, sales of It Can't Happen Here surged significantly, and it appeared on Amazon.com's list of bestselling books. The history of the U.S. is the history of selective autocracy — Native American genocide, slavery, Jim Crow laws, internment camps, and so on. “It Can’t Happen Here” The Federal Reserve printed $4 trillion in the years following the 2008 crash, expanding its pre-crisis balance sheet of about $900 billion to roughly $4.5 trillion. Once upon a time, America found itself attracted to the preening strength and false promise of a comic showman. Like many others I reread “It Can’t Happen Here” in 2016 and I was reminded that Lewis’ main character is a journalist.