I finally finished reading It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and I thought I'd diary the similarities between the book and current events.
I could've sworn half the time I was reading straight out of Rove's playbook. I'm sure he's read this book before and taken quite a few cues. Such as this one:
An honest propagandist for any Cause, that is, one who honestly studies and figures out the most effective way of putting over his Message, will learn fairly early that it is not fair to ordinary folks--it just confuses them--to try to make them swallow all the true facts that would be suitable to a higher class of people. And one seemingly small but almighty important point he learns, if he does much speechifying, is that you can win over folks to your point of view much better in the evening, when they are tired out from work and not so likely to resist you, than at any other time of day.
Zero Hour, Berzelius Windrip
How's that for spooky?
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