Sinclair Lewis get’s no prizes (apart from the Nobel Prize for Literature) for predicting the rise of the orange one in his novel from 1935, ‘It Can’t Happen Here’. Perhaps this really highlights how those tendencies have always been there in the character of the citizens of the Disunited States of America.
I don’t often make recommendations, but you might want to have something by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to dip into after reading this. No less dystopian, or prescient, at least Kurt reminds us that absurdity can be a pretty good antidote to tyranny.
