Wallace foresaw many of the dangers of 21st Century American political life. Among his most insightful predictions was his famous New York Times essay warning of the danger of “American fascists,” who “deliberately pervert truth and fact,” and “carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity.”
“They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest,” he wrote. “Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
