“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Sinclair Lewis, 1935
It Can’t Happen Here

In the novel, a candidate running on a foklsy populist platform and supported by a hugely popular anti-intellectual radio host is elected President and turns America into a Fascist regime that is openly racist, forbids women to hold jobs, retools the education system to remove literature and most science, and all sorts of things. The whole book is online at Project Gutenberg.

Read at least Chapter 8, in which some of the Fascist’s platform is laid out, and see if you don’t think a lot of it could get entirely too much traction today.