Text from the Dust Jacket
for the 1996 edition
In 1996, Patrick Buchanan said:
"We're on the verge of taking [the Republican Party] back as prelude to
taking back our country as prelude to taking back the destiny of America, and
when we get there, my friends, we will be obedient to one sovereign America and
that is the sovereign of God himself" (The Nation, D. Corn,
3/11/96).
By 2001, the political forces
that agreed with those sentiments had taken control of the government of the
old United States. In 2011, they
created the apartheid state of the New American Republics (NAR). In 2023, following the conclusion of
the Second Civil War, Constitutional Democracy was restored in the Re-United
States.
This book, published on the
25th anniversary of the Restoration, briefly reviews the political history of the rise and fall of fascism in the old United States and the
NAR. The book's principal purpose
is to show how fascism can be gradually introduced into any country, even the
world's greatest democracy, by
constitutional means. The lessons
for our time are that the maintenance of constitutional democracy requires eternal
vigilance and that those forces whose aims are essentially fascist in nature
must never be allowed even one bite of the apple of governmental power. For once they have bitten into it, they
will eat the whole apple, core and all. No sharing and no returns. Regurgitation only by the application of extreme force.