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Once it breaks down, we are all vulnerable. When anyone’s rights are violated, everyone’s rights are at risk. If the rule of ...

In this, It Can’t Happen Here is rooted firmly in the 1930s. Americans who think of that decade tend to conjure up Babylon Berlin or Homage to Catalonia, but our own politics were unsettled too.

Poster for a Federal Theater production of "It Can't Happen Here" in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1937. The play was adapted from Sinclair Lewis' dystopian political novel about the rise of a U.S. dictator.

It’s a thin line. But that’s not the quote I am reminded of. We’ll get to that in a minute. First, we must take a look at Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel about fascism, “It Can’t Happen ...

The phrase ‘It can’t happen here’ comes from Sinclair Lewis’ book by the same title. It described an authoritarian presidential candidate who rose to power on a populist platform promising ...

To the editor: In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel titled “ It Can’t Happen Here,” which should be required reading for all voters this year. It is about an elected president who turns the U.S. into ...

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Original posters from the play "It Can't Happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis. Library of Congress It is 1936. Fascism is on the rise in Europe as demagogues gain control in Germany, Italy, and Spain.