He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons. — Sinclair Lewis · Skopia

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He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

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Individual vs. the collective Misanthropy

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Dystopian fiction

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 35.

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