Muricans could have read It Can't Happen Here, for Sinclair Lewis's customized What-If? version, artfully taking into account the Puritanism, the fondness for euphemisms for Everything (as our site-peculiar form of common hypocrisy.)

(And tis a plot soundly based -- upon the actual machinations of Father Couglan, our '30s Ayatollah Foulwell, thankfully restricted to radio - in those days. Legions followed on his every imprecation.)

Whereas the Nazis successfully marketed (with suitable vagueness) the idea that Nat. Socialism was merely a more precise form of Xianity -?!?- we subsumed matters similarly with, Kill a Commie for Christ cha cha cha.

Nice to see that Mr. Fogarty can find a few lines in Mpls, in these times - and that alert finders can expand his local readership. We have to believe that, somehow somewhere there still exist.. enquiring minds.

Don't we?