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Blackshear M Bryan's avatar

In “It can’t happen here” a similar scene occurs when a character attending a political rally was very excited about what the candidate said, but when he was asked what the candidate said, he couldn’t remember. Sinclair Lewis wrote that in 1935.

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Catman's avatar

I read the book in 2015 when Trump first ran and ol' Sinclair had him pegged

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