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Plot. In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year.
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Not happen here? Prohibition—shooting down people just because they might be transporting liquor—no, that couldn't happen in America ! Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours!
Jan 7, 2014 · In his satirical political novel It Can’t Happen Here, Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis envisions the rise and reign of a totalitarian fascist dictatorship in the United States of America.
Jan 17, 2017 · “It Can’t Happen Here” is a work of dystopian fantasy, one man’s effort in the 1930s to imagine what it might look like if fascism came to America.
In Sinclair Lewis’s dystopian political novel It Can’t Happen Here, the populist senator and “Professional Common Man” Buzz Windrip wins the 1936 presidential election and turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship.
When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state. Jessup opposes him, is captured, and escapes to Canada.
