Why England Slept US$40,000 in royalties for Kennedy. Those from the British sales were donated to Plymouth, England, recently bombed by the Luftwaffe, while Kennedy bought a Buick convertible with his income from the book's North-American sales. Joseph Kennedy had initially approached Harold Laski to write the book's foreword, but Laski declined, feeling that it was "the book of an immature mind; that if it hadn't been written by the son of a very rich man, he wouldn't have found a publisher." Why England Slept Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his
Refuse Fascism 2017, prior to Trump's inauguration, Refuse Fascism member Tedd Sirota argued that Trump exhibited fascist "character traits", and argued that the most dangerous aspect of Trump's presidency would be the alliance "between his unbridled capitalism and the Christian fascism of [Vice President] Mike Pence". The group advocates Trump's removal from office by constitutional methods (including the Twenty-fifth Amendment) and identifies the Arab Spring and the protests leading to the impeachment of former President of South Korea Park Geun-hye in March 2017 as evidence of the effectiveness of protests. Members share a disbelief in the ability of the Democratic Party's capacity