# Norman Spinrad predicted trump

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The Doomsday Machine was one of my favourite episodes.

The idea was floating around in [Social Science circles in the early eighties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Fascism_(book)).

> [@Bertram Gross](#):
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> The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they’ll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show… That’s how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over.

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