It Can't Happen HereBy: Sinclair Lewis The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trumps authoritarian appeal.Salon It Cant Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewiss later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitlers aggression, it