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11. “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross,”

Variously attributed to Sinclair Lewis or Huey Long

Here's a more recent (2008) piece on the same subject. Well worth reading the whole thing. Here's a teaser:

"If it comes--and if those whose poisonous, unhinged verbiage has been so ubiquitous this week have any say over it, it surely will--this is how it will happen: not with tanks and jackbooted storm troopers, but carried in the hearts of men and women dressed in comfortable shoes, with baseball caps, and What Would Jesus Do? wristbands. It will be heralded by up-dos, designer glasses, you-betcha folksiness and a disdain for big words or hard consonants.

If fascism comes, it will spring from the soil of middle America, from people known as values voters but whose values are toxic, from simple folk whose simplicity, far from being admirable, is better labeled ignorance, from "all-American" types whose patriotism is a dagger pointed at the very heart of the national interest, for it so forsakes all the best principles upon which the republic was founded, choosing instead to elevate and ratify the narrow-mindedness, the bigotry, and the intolerance that also marked our country's origins."

http://redroom.com/member/tim-wise/blog/this-is-how-fascism-comes-reflections-on-the-cost-of-silence