Another discomforting prophet?

But wait, there’s no such thing as a comforting prophet.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”

Sinclair Lewis, courtesy of Wisdom Quotes Sinclair Lewis managed to seriously rile the folks in his hometown, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, with his novel “Main Street.” So much so that, despite his fame, nobody put up signs proclaiming Sauk Centre as “The Home of…” It wasn’t until the late 1960s or early 1970s that the town finally owned up to the connection, putting a plaque outside his boyhood home and building its “Sinclair Lewis Interpretive Center,” which I first encountered in grade school. Perhaps enough of the townsfolk who had been skewered in the book decades earlier had died off. Or perhaps anticipated commercial benefits finally took priority over hurt feelings. Whatever the case, the above quote, so eerily prescient, would seem to be capable of triggering anger on a scale far greater than that in Sauk Centre more than half a century ago. Shall we see?