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23. It's tricky. But Sinclair Lewis DID say this about fascism:
Sun May 27, 2018, 09:30 PM
May 2018

It’s easy to see how the quote is so often attributed to him:
https://english.illinoisstate.edu/sinclairlewis/
From It Can't Happen Here: "But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty."

From Gideon Planish: "I just wish people wouldn't quote Lincoln or the Bible, or hang out the flag or the cross, to cover up something that belongs more to the bank-book and the three golden balls."

There was also a play by Sherman Yellen called Strangers in the late 1970s which had a similar quote, but no one, including one of Lewis’s biographers, Richard Lingeman, has ever been able to locate the original citation.

Truth SummerSnow May 2018 #1
very sad..............k and r.................... Stuart G May 2018 #2
What does K and r mean? I see it all the time. walkingman May 2018 #11
"Kick" (for visibility) & "Recommend" lastlib May 2018 #12
Thanks! walkingman May 2018 #17
No, it hasn't brooklynite May 2018 #3
You misunderstand ProudLib72 May 2018 #6
Respectfully disagree. VOX May 2018 #22
+1 ck4829 May 2018 #24
So do we handwring and Skidmore May 2018 #4
Resist! ProudLib72 May 2018 #7
we Stand Up. we Speak Out. we RESIST! lastlib May 2018 #14
no not accept, His freaking bdamomma May 2018 #18
The idiot doesn't even realize he's holding the book upside down. sky rot May 2018 #5
K and R Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #8
"It Can't Happen Here" trof May 2018 #9
Where are our Jessups? ProudLib72 May 2018 #10
I own that book. murielm99 May 2018 #15
Agreed, but Donald Trump is not to blame by himself. StevieM May 2018 #13
Misspelled fascism? Or was that intentional? Nt lostnfound May 2018 #16
Whoops! ProudLib72 May 2018 #20
FYI don't use a fake quote to attack the Shithole Liberalagogo May 2018 #19
Yikes! It's amazing that there are so many memes, even bumper stickers attributing this ProudLib72 May 2018 #21
It's tricky. But Sinclair Lewis DID say this about fascism: VOX May 2018 #23
Kick ck4829 May 2018 #25
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