Is this really how fascism takes hold in the US?

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/02/fascism-takes-hold-170207142614174.html

There has, lately, been a rush of interest in cultural offerings premised on the return of fascism. The Man in the High Castle, loosely based on the Philip K Dick novel, is back for a second series. In it, the Nazi regime lives in fictional Technicolor suburbia, occupying the half of the US not occupied by co-victors of World War II, Japan.

A revival of the 1935 play, It Can't Happen Here, was staged in Berkeley late last year. The original novel by Sinclair Lewis charts the populist rise in the 1930s of a US fascist promising a return to American greatness. It reportedly sold out on Amazon.com the week after the election of Donald Trump.

Many have revisited Philip Roth's 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, in response to which its author came out of retirement to comment on his fictional work's relevance to current reality. The book dramatises what might have happened if the aviator and Nazi sympathiser Charles Lindbergh, who first talked about "America first", became a fascistic US president.

And a German play, Winter Solstice, features a Nazi who turns up in nice, leafy suburbia, at the home of an educated, liberal family. This family never votes for right-wing parties. One of them writes history books on fascism, for heaven's sake - and yet they cannot recognise its hallmarks in their kindly, elderly visitor who spouts nationalism and cultural purity.


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