I think we are actually in agreement. "It can't happen here" was written after the rise of the Nazis so it not that surprising that it appears prescient. The s

I think we are actually in agreement. "It can't happen here" was written after the rise of the Nazis so it not that surprising that it appears prescient. The same forces that gave rise to the Nazis in Germany were present in many countries in 1935 including the USA. Looking to the past can be very dangerous. Yes it helps to know history, but the conditions that gave rise to Nazism were conditional on the time. History can lead us astray and cause us worry about things that don't really matter and miss the new things that do.