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"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

No one really knows who originated that quote but it sure was prophetic.
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You can search all of Google Books for the quote:

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%E2%80%9CWhen%20fascism%20comes%20to%20America%2C%20it%20will%20be%20wrapped%20in%20the%20flag%20and%20carrying%20a%20cross.%E2%80%9D

I'm not seeing an early original source though. Many folks attribute it to Sinclair Lewis, but the S.L. scholars say "nope."

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Similar ideas have been expressed elsewhere too, including — surprisingly enough — a 1936 issue of Christian Century, which covered a James Waterman Wise Jr. address, in which he told his audience fascism would not come with a “shirt” or “insignia” but “wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution.”

Snopes also found a passage in John Thomas Flynn’s As We Go Marching which echoed the sentiment in 1944:

But when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war.

It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life.

The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion. The war upon fascism must be begun there.

Source: [b]https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/books/who-really-said-when-fascism-comes-to-america-it-will-be-wrapped-in-the-flag-and-carrying-a-cross-1/[/b]
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
@ElwoodBlues so giving minorities everything they want whether it be by Welfare, Superior Rights, or Reparation Payments is not a form of Control then. Think about that as to which side is doing that the most. Because it's not your summation of Patriots doing it.
@dakotaviper I corrected a quote attribution, and now you make all these absurd statements?!?!

Something obviously triggered you, but what????
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
@ElwoodBlues I'm always triggered when people espouse the likes of Big Government ideas versus Less Government ideas. Because if you think that it's the Patriots controlling Minorities, then why is the largest group of minorities here in the USA today becoming more and more Conservative.
@dakotaviper I espoused nothing. I corrected a quote attribution and reported on similar quotes from the WWII era when America was at war with fascism. You seem to be reacting to the content of the quote.