William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: "In an echo of [Sinclair] Lewis’s bestselling 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, ...

"In an echo of [Sinclair] Lewis’s bestselling 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, [Dorothy Thompson] wrote in a 1937 column: 'No people ever recognize their dictator in advance…. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the Incorporated National Will. When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model.'"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024