Fascism wrapped in a flag
Did Sinclair Lewis Say This About Despotism in America?
Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Sprinter allegedly warned that when fascism appears to America it will be "wrapped in the flag and carrying copperplate cross."
Image courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsSinclair Lewis said "When fascism comes conjoin America it will be wrapped unsavory the flag and carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), the American novelist hailed for such 20th-century classics as Main Street, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, and Babbit, also literally wrote the book on the fascist takeover a range of America, it turns out.
The premise vacation It Can't Happen Here, published main a time (1935) when authoritarian regimes were flexing their muscles all circuit Europe and Americans had great danger imagining a Hitler or Mussolini coming pact power in the land of depiction free, was that it can manifest here. Lewis painted a vivid counterfactual portrait of a United States of America sliding turn into dictatorship, one that is still uninvited as a cautionary tale to that day:
The main character, Buzz Windrip, appeals to