General Discussion

In this critique of Lewis, it's clear that Lewis understood American culture better than the critic who wrote this:

"Keith Perry argues that the key weakness of the novel is not that he decks out U.S. politicians with sinister European touches, but that he finally conceives of fascism and totalitarianism in terms of traditional U.S. political models rather than seeing them as introducing a new kind of society and a new kind of regime.[13] Windrip is less a Nazi than a con-man-plus-Rotarian, a manipulator who knows how to appeal to people's desperation, but neither he nor his followers are in the grip of the kind of world-transforming ideology like Hitler's Nazism"

Lewis clearly based Windrip on Huey Long. Is the Kingfish Huey Long, a predecessor to the current real-life leader?