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Anyone else notice eerie similarities between this book and the Trump campaign?
Also, why is Lewis never discussed here? he was the first gringo to win a lit Nobel prize after all...
He was a socialist and denounced the American Capitalist Culture that was blooming ever faster. They did not really like it.
>>7450362
>Anyone else notice eerie similarities between this book and the Trump campaign?
There's a lot that /pol/ does not know about Trump.
In other words, yes, Lewis is underrated and eerily prescient.
Phoenix Rising is about some Muslim becoming president and shitting up the country that is very clearly aimed at Tea Party readers. It's fear porn more or less. How is the book in OP Amy better?
>>7450408
Because that is nowhere near to happening.
>>7450441
That doesn't make the book better or worse.
>>7450362
>>7450441
>Because that is nowhere near to happening.
no, anon, it already did...
>>7450362
Fascism will be carrying a cross covered in a flag.
No
It was based off of Huey Long, a Democrat and open Socialist
Both he and the dictator in the novel wanted to give people "free"sgit
>>7452889
*"free" shit
The alarmism surrounding trump is as retarded as trump himself
>>7452889
Just like Animal Farm and 1984 was supposed to show us socialism doesn't work right?
a) Huey Long never called himself a socialist to my knowledge (and he sure didn't actually call for the abolition of private property)
b) people claim he based it upon Huey Long, big difference
>>7450473
Then (if you're the same poster) you've answered your own question. Both Phoenix Rising and It Couldn't Happen Here stand or fall on their own merits, and asking 'how is one better than the other?' with reference only to the premise doesn't make much sense.
Obama sucks. He was supposed to take away our guns, enforce death panels, covert America into a Muslim niggerocracy.
He hasn't done shit.
Lazy muh fugger.
>Trump is a fascist
>we know we have said this about every Republican candidate ever but we're being serious this time!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
>>7450390
>There's a lot that /pol/ does not know about Trump.
Like what?
>>7453251
Like.... this!
*spins around, shooting poison darts out of the billowing folds of my cape and all your henchmen collapse to the ground*
>>7453256
Okay listen up, wise guy … I expected a thought out reply to my sincere question and nothing else…. And all you have to present me is this fanatical extension of your pathetic fantasy life. Listen very carefully now... You take back what you just said, kid, and no one needs to eat a knuckle sandwich... Kid...
>>7453301
*there is an electric noise and all lamps die down, leaving the room dark and my silhouette even darker, contrasting against the giant bay window. Even the street lights of Tokyo do not reach the top floors of Hiro tower, where my boss, the toppest financial businessman in all of Japan, pays me to serve as a bodyguard. Hunched over in the grim darkness, I am perfectly still, and only my voice betrays the storm within me (since my parents were murdered by a gang of ninjas, there is a storm within me). I utter only three words, the last you will hear:
"Come and get it!"
