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It Can't Happen Here
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It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 speculative fiction novel written by Sinclair Lewis.In the novel, the United States succumbs to a far-right totalitarian government headed by President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic politician who wins over the voters through populism and empty promises. With his cadre of advisors and brutal private militia of Minute Men (M.M.s), Windrip oversees a new era of poverty, corruption, oppression, and fear; women and minorities are stripped of their rights, all dissent is outlawed, and those who displease the government are imprisoned in concentration camps or killed.Meanwhile, a Vermont newspaper publisher named Doremus Jessup watches these developments with horror. Doremus is torn between fear for his own safety and the safety of his family, and his moral responsibility to speak out against the regime. After one of Windrip's advisors murders two innocent men in a drunken rage, Doremus is galvanized into using his voice.Lewis based this tale in part on the experiences of his wife, Dorothy Thompson, a journalist who had gotten expelled from Nazi Germany for writing articles critical of Adolf Hitler. Lewis used Thompson's research and personal experiences in Germany and Fascist Italy to imagine how America might become a fascist state. Unfortunately, he also had many American figures to draw upon, from Huey Long, who planned to challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt's re-election on his "Share Our Wealth" platform, to fringe figures like Gerald Winrod,note a Kansas evangelist whose antisemitism and admiration for Hitler earned him the nickname "the Jayhawk Nazi" Gerald L.K. Smith,note an evangelist who went from Long's chief adviser to, after Long's death, an antisemitic demagogue and William Dudley Pelley.note the leader of the paramilitary "Silver Legion of America," better-known as the Silver Shirts A bestseller due to its unnerving contemporary resonance, the novel remains one of Lewis's best-known works.Adapted by Lewis himself into a 1936 stage play produced by the Federal Theatre Project. It also inspired the sci-fi series V. Not to be confused with the British alternate history film based on a similar premise. | |
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Prayer of Malice | |
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Prayer of Malice: Before being executed at Trianon, Falck cries out a vengeful prayer against his oppressors. | |
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The Migration | |
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The Migration: American refugees begin steadily pouring into Canada. | |
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You Can't Make an Omelette... | |
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You Can't Make an Omelette...: Doremus's son Philip uses the phrase defending the regime. Doremus reacts with anger. | |
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The Exile | |
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The Exile: Canada becomes a destination for American refugees fleeing the Windrip regime. Windrip himself is ousted from power by Lee Sarason and forced to live in exile in Europe. Similarly, Macgoblin flees after a coup and lives in exile in the Haitian countryside. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Effingham Swan, the military judge, is more of a Wicked Cultured version. | |
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Propaganda Machine | |
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Propaganda Machine: The fascist regime exerts rigid control over all media, reporting rose-colored news to the masses. The media leaves out inconvenient stories such as revolts against M.M.s, refugees fleeing to Canada, and global events. One of the tasks of the resistance is importing factual news from Canada and secretly disseminating it to citizens. | |
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Dye or Die | |
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Dye or Die: Sissy and Lorinda dye Doremus's hair and mustache black and shave off his beard prior to smuggling him into Canada. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: The original Trianon was a lavish French royal palace constructed as an adjunct to Versailles. The American version is a concentration camp, with all the "luxury" that that implies. | |
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Crappy Holidays | |
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Crappy Holidays: Christmas under Corpoism is, unsurprisingly, a decidedly non-joyful affair for the Jessup family: Doremus is arrested by the M.M.s and taken to Trianon on the Fourth of July. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: When Doremus asks Lorinda about translating German, she replies that the only German she knows is a phrase Buck taught her: "God bless you" (Verfluchter Schweinehund). Verfluchter Schweinehund actually means "damned pig-dog". | |
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Oppressive States of America | |
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Oppressive States of America: The Trope Codifier. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: General and Resistance leader Emmanuel Coon. The name may be a reference to Béla Kun, a Jewish Marxist leader in postwar Hungary. | |
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Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back | |
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Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back: Inverted. The regime invades Mexico as a means of spreading its empire and encouraging patriotism among the masses. Played with in that the regime falsely claims Mexico attacked America as justification for the war. (This being something of a Historical In-Joke, as the real Mexican-American War was justified by a similar imaginary invasion. And of course, four years later, the Nazis themselves used a false flag attack as a casus belli for invading Poland.) | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: Lorinda, Doremus, and several members of the Jessup household disseminate forbidden news that they receive from Canada. At the end of the novel, a full-blown rebellion against the Haik regime has erupted across the country. | |
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Book Burning | |
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Book Burning: The Windrip regime orders the burning of any book that might be perceived as subversive. Even P. G. Wodehouse's books get burned because he makes fun of the nobles. | |
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Second American Civil War | |
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Second American Civil War: The story ends rather suddenly with America engulfed in a civil war following a disastrous right-wing populist presidency and multiple coups. | |
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Dated History | |
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Dated History: It was common to attack Huey Long as a fascist while he was alive, and It Can’t Happen Here’s Take That! to him with Windrop was somewhat of the pinnacle of it. Since World War II, however, historians who’ve studied Long agree the fascist comparison doesn’t have any substance, and whatever Long's faults, he wasn’t going to recreate the totalitarian, jingoist, and ethno-nationalist violence and oppression of Hitler and Mussolini as Windrop does. | |
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Historical Hero Upgrade | |
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Bishop Prang compared to Father Coughlin. Whereas Prang does end up objecting to the brutality of the Windrip regime, Coughlin was a vicious and unapologetic antisemite and fascist, to the point where a large number of American bishops, the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States, and the Vatican itself wanted his radio show shut down; it remained on the air for as long as it did because Coughlin's direct superior, who alone had the authority to muzzle him, just happened to be one of the few bishops who supported him.note It got so bad that the Federal government created new laws about broadcasting permits just to get him off the air, and when he found a way around that, the National Association of Broadcasters put limitations on the sale of airtime to 'spokesmen of controversial public issues' specifically to get rid of him. Even then, he still spread his ideas through his magazine, to the point that the Attorney General recommended that the Postmaster General revoke his second-class mailing privilege, which the Postmaster actually planned to do, even scheduling a hearing. The only reason he didn't is because Edward Aloysius Mooney became the new bishop of Detroit and therefore Coughlin's new superior, and the Attorney General asked a friend of Mooney's to ask him to get Coughlin to shut up, which he did, threatening to defrock Coughlin. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Bishop Paul Peter Prang is indispensable in getting Windrip elected, persuading the twenty-seven million members of his "League of Forgotten Men" to vote for the man. Then, in the first week of his administration, rather than rewarding Prang for his help, Windrip throws this potential rival for power into an insane asylum, never to be seen again. Semi-averted with Windrip's Secretary of State, Lee Sarason, who deposes Windrip after two years of Presidency but is persuaded to let him flee the country rather than have him killed on the spot. Back in Fort Beulah, the little favors and kindnesses Doremus did for Shad Ledue when he was working for him seem to have merely stoked the latter's resentment even further. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Doremus returns to America to encourage dissidents, thereby playing a vital role in the resistance against the government. However, he's constantly on the move to evade Corpos and unable to see his loved ones. Even in a best case scenario, it will likely be years before he can settle down with Lorinda and Sissy again. | |
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Torture Always Works | |
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Torture Always Works: Subverted. Doremus and other characters are deeply traumatized from torture at Trianon, but they do not betray each other or abandon their convictions. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The M.M.s delight in torturing detainees at the concentration camps. A favorite torture at Trianon is whipping prisoners and force-feeding them castor oil (The latter was an actual torture method used in Fascist Italy). | |
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Divided States of America | |
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Divided States of America: When the resistance against Haik's regime mounts in earnest, sizeable chunks of America come under dissident control. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: Much of the American populace after the Windrip regime's educational "reforms", book burnings, and censorship campaigns. Institutions of higher learning have been eviscerated, and the remaining schools only teach practical or useless classes, meaning that much of the populace is ignorant of history, literature, and civics. When citizens revolt against the Corpos, this works against them as well as the Corpos. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: Some of Windrip's diplomatic appointments are hinted as being this. | |
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You Cannot Kill an Idea | |
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You Cannot Kill An Idea: The moral of the novel is that noble people will always fight for justice against oppressive regimes. The last lines of the novel stress this. | |
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War for Fun and Profit | |
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War for Fun and Profit: The regime's war on Mexico is essentially this. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Kangaroo Court: How the Windrip regime tries dissidents. Doremus is hauled before one before being incarcerated at Trianon. | |
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Underground Railroad | |
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Underground Railroad: How many refugees flee to Canada, including Doremus. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: The concentration camps. Trianon is a filthy, crowded, miserable prison where guards torture detainees with whippings and force-feed them castor oil. | |
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Day of the Jackboot | |
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Day of the Jackboot | |
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Vice President Who? | |
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Vice President Who?: Ineffectual VP Perley Beecroft plays no part in the power struggles, except perhaps for declaring a Congressional quorum while most of them are stuck in jail. | |
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Noble Demon | |
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Noble Demon: Some of the higher-minded Corpos are described as this. | |
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The Horseshoe Effect | |
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The Horseshoe Effect: | |
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Police Brutality | |
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Police Brutality: Many of the M.M.s are bullies at best and sadists at worse, perpetrating atrocities against dissenters and minorities. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: Even after Doremus is briefly arrested for writing an anti-government editorial, things aren't too bad for Jessup and his family. He actually has a lot of fun writing propaganda for the resistance. Then Jessup is arrested and thrown in a concentration camp next to a bunch of his friends and family members and things get very real and very harsh. | |
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Politically Correct History | |
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Politically Correct History: The regime uses propaganda to teach their version of history. Not helped by its book burnings and evisceration of the educational system. | |
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Police State | |
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Police State | |
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Dystopia Is Hard | |
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Dystopia Is Hard: Poverty and economic downturns are the fruits of Windrip's regime, much to Windrip's dismay. | |
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Civil War | |
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Civil War: A large-scale resistance mounts after Haik takes power, and the insurrection gets so fierce that by the end of the book, the US is heading towards its second civil war. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Sarason exiles Windrip, only to be assassinated by Haik. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Buzz Windrip, the folksy, good-humored senator turned fascist dictator. Effingham Swan, the military judge, is more of a Wicked Cultured version. | |
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Government in Exile | |
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Government in Exile: Trowbridge's resistance movement after he finds refuge in Canada. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
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Depraved Homosexual: Lee Sarason and the handsome M.M.s he surrounds himself with. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Ominous weather foreshadows the arrival of M.M.s at the Jessup home, who proceed to vandalize the house, brutalize Doremus, and eventually haul Doremus away to Trianon. | |
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HangingSeparately | |
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Hanging Separately: The different anti-Corpo political factions fail to unite to prevent Windrip's election. The Communists refuse to form a common front with the other La Résistance factions even as the full scope of Corpo tyranny is revealed. | |
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Black Shirt | |
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Black Shirt: The Minute Men (M.M.s). | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Windrip and Macgoblin. Both of them are removed from power but live in comfortable exile afterwards. | |
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No Woman's Land | |
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No Woman's Land: The Windrip regime robs women of many rights and bars them from most occupations. Lorinda and Sissy chafe under the regime's misogyny. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: An unusual example. When it was written, in 1935, it was speculative fiction set in the near future. Decades later, it reads very much like an alternate history, speculating what would have happened if a fascist dictatorship took power in the US around the same time the Nazis came to power in Germany. | |
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Emergency Authority | |
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Emergency Authority: President Windrip declares a state of emergency (or the 1930s equivalent expression) immediately after taking office, dismisses Congress and the Supreme Court and suspends the Constitution, becoming the dictator of the USA. (Needless to say It Happens Here.) | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Among the casualties of Windrip's coup are some of the very people who put him in power. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Several against Upton Sinclair, who is described as a supporter of Windrip and the regime's later ambassador to the UK.note Sinclair was a devoted socialist and FDR supporter, but quit the Socialist Party of America to run as a Democrat, and used populist tactics similar to Windrip during his campaign. Ironically, Sinclair's books were among those burned by the Nazis at their rallies. William Randolph Hearst, and his newspapers, are described as willing propagandists for Windrip and the Corpos even after the dictatorship is established. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Windrip regime is led by a charismatic dictator and characterized by racism, jingoism, vicious suppression of dissent, concentration camps, and foolish wars of conquest. To boot, the Corpo Youth is reminiscent of the Hitler Youth. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Book Within a Book: Several chapters open with excerpts from Buzz Windrip's bestselling Zero Hour. The Purple Prose-laden segments ghostwritten by Lee Sarason are amusingly contrasted with the more "folksy" Stylistic Suck passages presumably authored by Windrip himself. | |
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Decadent Court | |
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Decadent Court: Windrip's administration. His closest advisors are constantly vying for power, and coups abound by the end of the novel. They also aren't slouches in the "decadent" department; Macgoblin once hosts meetings with business leaders in a Roman-era ship with nude hostesses, while Sarason hosts orgies with handsome young men after he exiles Windrip. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: Doremus tries to join the Communists so he could fight against the Windrip regime, but gives up when he hears that they're unwilling to work together with other opposition forces, like the Socialists or Trowbridge. | |
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Next Sunday A.D. | |
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Next Sunday A.D.: The novel, written in 1935, depicts the 1936 Presidential election and its aftermath. | |
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Reign of Terror | |
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Reign of Terror: When Windrip's regime takes power, the M.M.s perpetrate atrocities against minorities and dissenters. When Haik takes power, it gets even worse. | |
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Un-person | |
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Unperson: Bishop Prang becomes this after traveling to Washington to complain to Windrip about some of his more brutal actions since taking office. | |
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| It Can't Happen Here / int_dca97045 | type |
Just Following Orders | |
| It Can't Happen Here / int_dca97045 | comment |
Just Following Orders: Emil Staubmeyer's excuse, when he and the other M.M.s show up at Doremus's house to burn his books. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Windrip is heavily modeled on Huey Long, along with other Depression-era demagogues like Gerald Winrod, Charles Coughlin, and William Dudley Pelley. | |
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Expy Coexistence | |
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Which is rather interesting, when you consider that characters like Windrip and Bishop Prang are clearly intended as stand-ins for people like Long and Coughlin. | |
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No Ending | |
| It Can't Happen Here / int_ea2e9f2d | comment |
No Ending: The novel ends rather abruptly with the United States engulfed in a civil war. We don't find out whether the resistance will win, and what will be Doremus' eventual fate. | |
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Fascist, but Inefficient | |
| It Can't Happen Here / int_eb04f8d5 | comment |
Fascist, but Inefficient: The Windrip regime is efficient when it comes to suppressing dissent. On matters of education and the economy, not so much. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Sarason is this to Windup. Haik is later this to Sarason. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: From a modern perspective, it can read as this to many later dystopian novels in which the heroes triumph against the oppressive regime and restore life as it was before. Unlike a lot of those novels, it also dealt with irreconcilable radicalist groups, demagoguery, and post-revolution instability, problems that would face many real life newly-democratic and/or ex-colonial nations in the latter half of the 20th century. | |
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Dead Sparks | |
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Dead Sparks: Doremus and Emma. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
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The Fundamentalist: Karl Pascal, a die-hard communist. His ideological fervor reaches a fevered pitch during his incarceration at Trianon, much to his cellmates' annoyance. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: late in the story, Shad is confused and angry as to why Sissy doesn't want to be with him since she's "nothing now but the busted daughter of a criminal," Doremus having been sent to the Trianon concentration camp while Shad is a County Commissioner in the Corpo regime. He obviously doesn't consider that she might not really like him from his generally toxic behavior, his role in getting Doremus arrested and imprisoned, and probably being personally responsible for her brother-in-law's death. | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Doremus and Lorinda have had an ongoing affair behind Emma's back. The affair is depicted as positive, since the two are intellectual equals who are passionately in love. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Doremus describes Bishop Prang as one of these. | |
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