Reading IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

Apparently sales of Sinclair Lewis's book It Can't Happen Here have skyrocketed since the election of Donald Trump. This is a book, written in 1936, fascism's first heyday, about a homespun politician's rise to the Presidency and subsequent institution of German-style fascism in the United States.

I feel like a little bit of a hipster about Sinclair Lewi…