Modern readers think ICHH is a response to Hitler's regime, and it was, but the Nazis hadn't really gotten their war machine going when Lewis banged out this novel.
We're kinda at the early midpoint, where language is being normalized and people are just beginning to realize it *could* happen here.
We're kinda at the early midpoint, where language is being normalized and people are just beginning to realize it *could* happen here.
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The Nazis had already murdered thousands by this point.
So "Here" becomes not just about geography but about social class structure.
(Actually, I'm wrong. Go read this book. Lewis kills it on development.)
But it's not safe for her here. Not anymore. This news was the final straw.
We've never been even nearly perfect, but had improved (if sometimes haltingly) though much of our history.
But now ...
Reagan was bad, but this feels so much worse.
People have been disappearing for ages in this country. Undocumented immigrants vanishing into ICE custody and, hopefully, reappearing weeks or months later.
Now they're disappearing people who speak out against their agenda.
More clowns are showing up at this circus, too, and they're getting bolder. The clowns will happen to all of us.
Britain should raise hell.