loppear reviewed It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot …
Review of "It Can't Happen Here" on Goodreads
2 stars
So there are some resonant descriptions of creeping populist demagoguery and shifting twisting fears as a police state forms from love of sports, militarism, and empowering petty criminals with patriotic purpose. But the story and characters are soggy cardboard melodrama.