"When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[deminks]

1. and the crowds chant 'Il Trumpo'

as they beat the reporters and minorities in the crowd to a pulp while the MEdia records on their phones.

[alarimer]

19. Twitter calls him 'Il douche'

LOL

[islandmkl]

2. he forgets to carry a Bible...probably afraid of lightning...eom

[Wounded Bear]

13. Perhaps not literally...

but he has, on various occasions, declared it one of his favorite books. He loves to lie to evangelicals about how much he loves it.

[cantbeserious]

3. It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis

eom

[oberliner]

6. Except that line doesn't appear anywhere in that book

Not an actual quote.

[cantbeserious]

14. That Is The Name Of The Book

eom

[oberliner]

16. It Can't Happen Here is the name of the book

The quote in the OP is not from that book.

It is often misattributed to Sinclair Lewis and the novel.

[cantbeserious]

17. Not The Point - Lewis Forshadowed Current Events In The Book - That Is The Rise Of Fascism

eom

[oberliner]

18. Understood

Just pointing out that the quote is often misattributed (though the theme is similar).

[deminks]

4. Their hats will change for the General election -

Make America Aryan -oops I mean- White again (ultimate dog whistle to the 'people' that he loves so much)

[deminks]

5. 'when ve ask der Donald who is deh master race...

ve heil (fft), heil (fft) right in der Donald's face.

/ based on WWII anti Nazi popular song

[Arkansas Granny]

8. My parents had that record. I remember hearing it as a kid.

[deminks]

9. Aye, as did my father who fought in Europe.

I am glad he is not here to see this. This is not what he told me he fought for.

[Mbrow]

10. Spike Jones and his city slickers

I have the album..... I guess that says a lot about my taste in music

[deminks]

11. Excellent taste!

[Jester Messiah]

26. Which is doubly funny when you consider that

in Britain, "trump" is synonymous with "fart."

[pampango]

7. "Wrapped in an American flag" and emphasizing protecting "us" from "them" evil minority

racial and religious groups and foreigners out to get "us".

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. Nothing has changed in 200 years

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.”
― Daniel Webster

“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”
― Daniel Webster

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. He is worse than George Wallace and Ronald Reagan.

The former knew what he was peddling was snake oil and the latter at least felt compelled to pay lip service to small d democratic values.

[Fred Drum]

20. WHEN FASCISM CAME TO AMERICA

nobody paid attention

[Katashi_itto]

21. I wonder if this is bait and switch. Trump takes the Heat then Hillary moves

in and instigates corporate/fascist agenda.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Yeah

Because it is Hillary who is running an anti-semitic, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, and nativist campaign. Wait, it's the other guy.

I will err on the side of caution and just take the fella at his word.

[Katashi_itto]

23. You put just what you descibed as the front runner. Hillary wins and you get TPP, War

everything the 1% wanted anyway.

It's win win

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. TPP, maybe, war, no!!!

She will follow the same prudent foreign policy course her husband followed; temperate enough to keep us out of a land war in the Middle East and robust enough to keep the domestic right wing crazies at bay. The no fly zones over Iraq and sanctions had Saddam in a box. He was too weak to threaten his neighbors but strong enough to be a bulwark against Iran.

As for TPP , I don't want to go back to the days of Smoot Hawley and build a moat around America. It didn't end well. It's also a hedge against China to prevent them from becoming a hegemon in the region. As it is they are already bullying tiny Philippines.

[Katashi_itto]

25. RIGHTTTT...Yeah TPP is so good for us. Your overlooking the fact she is a hawk. She will

have the US dance to the tune of whatever the Corps want.

TPP makes that very evident.

TPP
-Six Chapters about Trade. 24 Chapters for special rights to corporations.
-Spells the end of a free and open internet
-Pharm Profits go up by reducing access to life saving drugs by raising costs.
-Once enacted TPP has no expiry date or now way of getting out of it.
-Economists have stated it will kill 450K Jobs in the US, 58K jobs in Canada, 75K jobs in Japan

I could go on, by hey Hillary was one of the architects of it. But you know that.

[mindem]

27. Oh, goody,

she'll just do what Bill says. Can she think for herself? Bill and banks and Walmart and on and on and on.

[Johnny2X2X]

28. Frightening

It's frightening that people here spend far more time attacking Hilary than Drumpf. This guy is likely a closet Klan Member and wants to usher in an era of totalitarianism in America.

We are taking for granted that he will be defeated by Hilary of Bernie, this guy is playing dirty and anything is possible.