says the man who lived in china for 10 years . why didnt you stay in your own country and save the dolphins or somethingAlready got a civil reply <| sep |> yeah so . fascist lite . most people forget that we didn ' t fight the war because we had sympathy for the plight of holocaust victims . we fought because Japan attacked us after we imposed harsh embargoes on them and Germany , and then Germany attacked us . that ' s it . there was no great moral imperative against Nazism or genocide . we were isolationists , we didn ' t give a shit . considering the strength of communist and fascist movements in the 1930 s , the great level of poverty and desperation , and international tensions , it ' s amazing we didn ' t fall to communism or fascism before the decade was out . the war was a lucky break for us economically as it allowed us to engage in large scale patriotic deficit spending and allowed us to come out of the war with a large majority of the world ' s industry and wealth . were it not for the war , it ' s not infeasible that we could have fallen to either the far left or the far right . now we ' re experiencing great economic upheaval after multiple failed wars and we have quite literally turned to a protofascist who very clearly preys on the fascist impulse prominent in the modern right . It Can ' t Happen Here illustrated all of this better than I can . it reads like a recreation of people ' s attitudes when Hitler rose to power and like a near parallel of people ' s attitudes today . I ' ve been into history for a very long time , most of my life I ' ve studied politics and authoritarian movements , as well as history itself , and I was always the person who waved away the liberal fears that people like W . and Romney were Nazisfascists . now though ? it ' s hard to wave those same fears off about Trump and even more so in terms of the movement that propelled him to victory .