The American Dictatorship?
Nov 5 · 5 min read
In 1935 Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here the author argued that it can happen here, but the common feeling is that in the US that a dictatorship is not possible. However, the behavior of Donald Trump has for the first time raised the specter of a presidential takeover of power. While other presidents may have tacked to the right or to the left in their politics and policies, in no case did observers think that a president could…

