When apocryphal quotations come to America, they'll be wrapped in misattribution
Here’s another quote that isn’t — “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross,” attributed to Sinclair Lewis.
An thorough history of the evolution of the phrase and its attribution traces the original to Professor Halford E. Luccock of Yale Divinity School, quoted in a September 12, 1938 New York Times article.
When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled “made in Germany”; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, “Americanism.”