Imagine the Trump voters rejecting him because he supported legislative projects of the standard Republicans, way to the right of what he promised.
That is how Lewis sees Windrip supporters rising up against the fascist state created by him and his partisans in America.
In the name of a Cooperative Commonwealth.
This is not even half plausible fiction, any more.
This is absurd, quasi-socialist fantasy.
All the same, the incomplete but well-begin rebellion at the end is more plausible in another respect, not pitting unarmed people, powerless and ordinary, against a unified state backed unanimously by its elites but seeing large slices of the state join large slices of the people and of society at all levels in a common and increasingly general effort.
Reading It Can't Happen Here.
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