U nás se to stát nemůže – Lewis Sinclair (2022)

Journalist Doremus Jessup is horrified to discover how many people support the populist presidential candidate Buzz Windrip. Windrip promises a swift end to the economic crisis, offers citizens financial aid and social security, and vows to make America a superpower that the whole world will tremble before. His election program is a mixture of the worst promises from both far-right and far-left regimes. The president is to have nearly unlimited powers, and any opposition must be ruthlessly suppressed. Doremus is certain that this politician will establish a dictatorship in the country. Yet everyone responds to his warnings with the same soothing phrase: It can't happen here. Shortly after the elections, it becomes clear how wrong they were. Windrip violently takes control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and through terror begins to transform the United States into a totalitarian regime. Is it still possible to stop the rise of dictatorship? And if so, at what cost? The novel It Can't Happen Here (1935) was written at a time when Americans watched with concern the rise of dictatorships in Europe, and part of the intellectual elite anxiously wondered whether a totalitarian regime might also threaten the United States. Sinclair Lewis tells a cautionary tale in it...