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“It can’t happen here”
—that’s the stock phrase used by Sinclair Lewis to warn about European-style fascism creeping into U.S. politics in the 1930s,
—by Frank Zappa to mock Eisenhower-era squares panicking about counterculture freaks in the 1960s,
—and by many Americans to reassure themselves of their country’s stability ever since the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Animosity between political camps in the United States feels more vicious than at any ti…