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Seeing your interest in It Can’t Happen Here, I had to share the part that amused me the most when I read it a few months ago. In this part, the new president’s staff is being introduced.
“Secretary of the Treasury: one Webster R. Skittle, president of the prosperous Fur & Hide National Bank of St. Louis–Mr. Skittle had once been indicted on a charge of defrauding the government on his income tax, but he had been acquitted, more or less, and during the campaign, he was said to have taken a convincing way of showing his faith in Buzz Windrip as the Savior of the Forgotten Men.”
Sinclair Lewis must have thought having a Treasury Secretary with proven income tax mistakes would have been going too far.

And this. Sounds like it’s ready for Hollywood!

I’ve read “It Can’t Happen Here” and it is NOT a conservative book. The hero fights the fascist takeover of the US by becoming a COMMUNIST.