Sinclair Lewis's 1935 satiric novel about a fascist takeover, It Can't Happen Here, has made a furious comeback at the expense of the maligned Donald Trump. That it is an act of supreme political ignorance for anyone to think Lewis's novel somehow foreshadows the rise of Trump has not prevented such ignorance from manifesting itself. We see the mentality at work in a number of publications and, for a week following the 2016 election, the book was reportedly sold out on Amazon.
This poor excuse for literature could have been spun out of the pages of yesterday's Washington Post.
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