What is the importance of Fort Beulah in the novel, It Can’t Happen Here?

Fort Beulah is a fictional American city in the state of Vermont. It is the home of protagonist Doremus Jessup and most of the novel’s other characters. It is also the home of the fictional Isaiah College, as well the large rock quarry owned by Francis Tasbrough. Fort Beulah functions as microcosm of the United States at large in the novel. The drama, power shifts, and resistance efforts that take place in Fort Beulah function as demonstrations of similar events likely occurring all over America during the course of the narrative.