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@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-27 17:44:04

Just look at the start of chapter 12 of “It can’t happen here” with an excerpt of the book of dear leader. Sound familiar, doesn’t it?
I'm still wondering whether Trump (or his writer(s)) could be sued for plagiarism?
#SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere

12
I shall not be content till this country can produce
every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and
rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If we can
do this and at the same time work up tourist traffic
so that foreigners will come from every part of the
world to see such remarkable wonders as the Grand
Canyon, Glacier and Yellowstone etc. parks, the fine
hotels of Chicago, & etc., thus leaving their money
here, we shall have such a balance of trade as will go
far to carry out my o…