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c699ff1 autobiographical novel. He fancied himself Dinesh D'Souza
19eb721 Jonah Goldberg received pretty much the same treatment for his important book Liberal Fascism. Goldberg argues, "What we call liberalism--the refurnished edifice of American progressivism--is in fact a descendant of and manifestation of fascism." Dinesh D'Souza
6bcbe9e The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large part of his training seminars to consciousness raising. Today Black Lives Matter and other left-wing groups routinely conduct consciousness-raising workshops as part of their protest training. All of this is a replacement of Marx's notion of historical inevitability with the recognition that people don't agitate of.. Dinesh D'Souza
a25f8c3 The racism of the Democratic Party in America not only preceded the racism of the Nazis, it lasted far longer--more than a century compared to the twelve years of Nazi rule in Germany. The Democratic Party's racism after the Civil War was preceded by the Democratic Party's defense of slavery and its support of policies for the relocation and extermination of American Indians. Dinesh D'Souza
7170b60 We think of concepts like "genocide" and "concentration camps" as unique to Nazism, but what term other than genocide can we use to describe Democratic president Andrew Jackson's mass relocation of the Indians? Didn't Jackson and his allies systematically seek to dispossess, disinherit, and dismember the Indians as a people? Using the official United Nations definition of genocide, I show that he did." Dinesh D'Souza
67fe34e Moreover, this whole issue has been raised to a completely new level since the publication of historian Stanley Elkins's path-breaking book Slavery. Elkins not only drew an elaborate comparison of the plantation as a "closed system" akin to a concentration camp, he also showed that slavery produced personality types eerily similar to those described by Nazi camp survivors. So the point is that even on some of the institutions and practices .. Dinesh D'Souza
f03640a Even though JFK fought in World War II, he retained a soft spot for Hitler as late as 1945, when he described him as the "stuff of legends . . . Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures to have lived."36" Dinesh D'Souza
0ad2228 These incriminating facts are known to many progressive scholars. But after World War II, as this group came increasingly to dominate the academy--a dominance that was fully consolidated by the late 1960s--the progressives recognized how crushing it would be if Americans knew about the actual record of progressivism and the Democratic Party. What if people, especially young people, knew the links between revered progressive figures like Wil.. Dinesh D'Souza
3bf0195 So progressives decided to tell a new story, and this is the story that has now become our conventional wisdom. In this story, the very fascism and Nazism that were, from the outset, on both sides of the Atlantic, recognized as left-wing phenomena now got moved into the right-wing column. Suddenly Mussolini and Hitler became "right-wingers," and the people who supposedly brought them to power became "conservatives." The Left, then, became t.. Dinesh D'Souza
21c42d3 Obama will view free market capitalism as a selfish and exploitative ideology. He will relentlessly attack its champions--whether they be rich guys or big bad corporations. He will diminish America's standard of living and burden future generations of Americans, narrowing the gap in living standards between America and the rest of the world. He will view America as the Rogue Nation and global plunderer. He will reduce America's footprint in.. Dinesh D'Souza
ff38c50 Therefore we have to watch carefully to see if Obama is actually doing these things. Of course, those who have no clue about his ideology will always seek to explain his actions another way. Liberals in general view Obama as toeing the liberal line, or compromising away from it, even when many of Obama's actions fit neither characterization. Conservatives in general view Obama as a bungler: he doesn't understand that tax hikes don't promote.. Dinesh D'Souza
efe8ac0 Certainly there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation."2 As cited in the quotation at the beginning of this chapter, Obama Sr. is even willing to consider tax rates up to 100 percent! It's remarkable that this paper by Obama Sr. has gotten so little media coverage. One would expect it to be on the front page of every newspaper and a lead item on the evening news, e.. Dinesh D'Souza
ae5a8c1 As should be obvious by now, the Nazi race laws were the precise equivalent of the Democratic Party's race laws. It isn't merely that the former provided a precedent for the latter; the two sets of laws also had the same functional purpose. Just as the segregation and discrimination laws were intended to supplement, and in some respects replace, the random violence of the Ku Klux Klan, so too the Nuremberg Laws and Nazi discrimination laws .. Dinesh D'Souza
98dec90 Jackson's men cut off the noses of dead Indians as they counted the bodies. Afterwards there were few regrets; one of Jackson's soldiers chuckled that he had killed a boy "five or six years of age" for the reason that "he would have become an Indian someday."22" Dinesh D'Souza
cd4ea9f When you fuse the two ideas of "nation" and "socialism," what you get is National Socialism." Dinesh D'Souza
fed2f84 Mussolini created the first National Socialism, stripped of its German racial connotations. His was a vision of a nation organized along socialist lines in which everyone would share in the benefits and all would contribute their due portion. This language of course has Obama overtones, and we see an obvious congruence between the fascist unification and the modern progressive insistence that America is a single community and that everyone .. Dinesh D'Souza
fbc14f7 The roots of fascism fully expose the connection between fascism and America's political Left, and the antithesis between fascism and America's political Right. Dinesh D'Souza
7144ead Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for. Dinesh D'Souza
58fae80 Hitler didn't know a lot about America. He had never been to America. And he despised America. "My feelings against Americanism," he later said in 1942, "are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance." Why? He claimed, "Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaised and the other half negrified." Dinesh D'Souza
4e45039 Historian Ira Katznelson tells us, "Hitler denigrated blacks, admired American racism, and regretted the South's defeat in 1865." Dinesh D'Souza
589a49b But the rule itself required 100 percent whiteness in order to qualify for attending a white school, or drinking from a white water fountain, or frequenting the white section of a public beach. This as we saw earlier is the rule that even the Nazis found a bit too extreme and repellent. Dinesh D'Souza
b0acfdb Interestingly while the Nuremberg Laws are now history, the "one drop rule" is very much with us, not only as a matter of law but also as a matter of personal identity. Think about Obama: he's half white and half black, yet he identifies as black. Many African Americans have white ancestry, yet they consider themselves black. Why? Because of the one-drop rule. If any of these people tried to self-identify as white--or refuse to racially cla.. Dinesh D'Souza
b5e2890 The Census Bureau, even today, counts blacks and whites according to the one-drop rule and uses it to implement a host of affirmative action and other race-based programs. Dinesh D'Souza
7931e4c Actually, we do have our Mengele, and his name is Kermit Gosnell. Since 1979, Gosnell ran an abortion clinic called the Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia. There he performed late-term abortions and partial-birth abortions, mostly on poor women. If by some mistake children were born alive, Gosnell killed them in a process he termed "ensuring fetal demise." Gosnell's preferred technique for abortion was to heavily drug the prematur.. Dinesh D'Souza
449685e Gosnell is our Mengele, we also have our Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and its name is Planned Parenthood. Gosnell didn't work for Planned Parenthood, but neither did Mengele work for the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Yet both men had institutional legitimacy for their work that came from the longtime support and advocacy of organizations like Planned Parenthood and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Both men saw themselves as pioneers working on the sc.. Dinesh D'Souza
6411a09 As we will see, Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid admirer of Mussolini who sought to import Italian fascist schemes to America. FDR also collaborated with the worst racist elements in America, working with them to block anti-lynching laws and exclude blacks from New Deal programs and name a former Klansman to the Supreme Court. Dinesh D'Souza
4e706eb Mussolini, for his part, praised FDR's book Looking Forward and basically declared FDR to be a fellow fascist. Hitler too saw FDR as a kindred spirit and the New Deal was widely praised as an American form of fascism in the Nazi Party's official newspaper Volkischer Beobachter and other Nazi publications. Dinesh D'Souza
c74df41 Think about this: while black culture is a vibrant presence in America today, Indian culture is ignored, forgotten, virtually nonexistent. Even after the Holocaust, Jewish culture thrives, in Israel, America, and around the world. By contrast, American Indians seem still to bear the original shock of their displacement and virtual obliteration as a people. Dinesh D'Souza
a6f9db3 In 1935, seven years before the Nazis fully implemented the Final Solution, Hitler advocated emigration and ghettoization as interim solutions to the Jewish problem. The Jews, Hitler said, must be "removed from all professions, ghettoized, restricted to a particular territory, where they can wander about, in accordance with their character, while the German people looks in, as one looks at animals in the wild."30" Dinesh D'Souza
239f1fb Stannard begins with a stunning statistic: of the ten to twelve million native Indians who once populated the American continent, between 90 and 95 percent perished as a consequence of exposure to the white man. This is a catastrophic event, by any measure, but even so Stannard admits that most of these deaths were due to plagues and epidemics unwittingly transmitted from Europeans to the Indians. Whatever we call this, we cannot call it ge.. Dinesh D'Souza
502efcc Starting in 1933, the first year of the Third Reich, the Nazis also began the systematic exclusion of Jews from public office. Hitler added an "Aryan clause" to the civil service law which effectively banned Jews from government employment." Dinesh D'Souza
7d854f1 Soon Jews were also removed and excluded from journalism, farming, teaching, and the theater. By 1938, Jews could not practice investment banking or the professions of law and medicine. This combination of segregation and state-sponsored discrimination against Jews mirrors what the Democrats did to African Americans. Dinesh D'Souza
baee4ee From the point of view of the progressive narrative--a narrative I began to challenge in the previous chapter--Mussolini's shift from Marxian socialism to fascism must come as a huge surprise. In the progressive paradigm, Marxian socialism is the left end of the spectrum and fascism is the right end of the spectrum. Progressive incredulity becomes even greater when we see that Mussolini wasn't just any socialist; he was the recognized head .. Dinesh D'Souza
9a7bb2d academic chair the following year. In his account of what happened, Lessing acknowledged he could do nothing to prevent being "shouted down, threatened and denigrated" by student activists. He was helpless, he said, "against the murderous bellowing of youngsters who accept no individual responsibilities but pose as spokesman for a group or an impersonal ideal, always talking in the royal 'we' while hurling personal insults . . . and claimin.. Dinesh D'Souza
fa06bf5 It was Gentile," Mussolini confessed, "who prepared the road for those like me who wished to take it."30 Gentile served as a member of the Fascist Grand Council, a senator in the Upper House of the Italian Parliament, and also as Mussolini's minister of education. Later, after Mussolini was deposed and established himself at Salo, Gentile became at Il Duce's request the president of the Italian Academy." Dinesh D'Souza
09be536 Racism, of course, preceded the Democratic Party but the Democrats, in a sense, invented political racism in the early nineteenth century in order to defend slavery against Republican and abolitionist attack. Dinesh D'Souza
842217d Progressive Democrats in the twentieth century would in fact attack the founding fathers as misguided or their ideas as out of date. But in the nineteenth century, Democrats took a different line. They denied that blacks were men, which is to say, they denied the full humanity of black people. Dinesh D'Souza
2fd0030 So the Democratic defense went like this: all men are created equal, blacks are subhuman, which is to say, not fully men, therefore, we are justified in enslaving them. Dinesh D'Souza
0946a69 Despite Gentile's disagreement with Marx about historical inevitability, he has at this point clearly broken with modern conservatism and classical liberalism and revealed himself to be a man of the Left. Gentile was, in fact, a lifelong socialist. Like Marx, he viewed socialism as the sine qua non of social justice, the ultimate formula for everyone paying their "fair share." For Gentile, fascism is nothing more than a modified form of soc.. Dinesh D'Souza
d360061 Goldwater objected to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on libertarian grounds; he did not believe the federal government was constitutionally authorized to regulate discrimination in the private sector. Sadly, Goldwater's principled stand was misunderstood by many African Americans, who saw Goldwater as a racist and his party, the GOP, as the party of racism. Dinesh D'Souza
a7ed804 Does it seem far-fetched, and wrong, to compare the core institution of Nazi eugenics to Planned Parenthood? Not at all. In some respects, Planned Parenthood's conduct is worse. While the organization poses as a benign promoter of "birth control," its modus operandi was confirmed by a series of undercover videos showing officials willing to sell fetal body parts resulting from the organization's nationwide abortion industry. The officials r.. Dinesh D'Souza
8f679d6 May 2017, the undercover group released a new video featuring ghoulish admissions by Planned-Parenthood-affiliated abortion providers. One spoke of ensuring death by using "a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix and pull off a leg or two." Another confessed, to laughter from the crowd, that during a recent abortion procedure "an eyeball just fell into my lap, and that is gross." A third confessed that when stem cell companie.. Dinesh D'Souza
8e07e12 America led the way in legalizing and promoting coerced eugenic sterilizations," historian Angela Franks writes.11 Progressives had their first success in 1907 when Indiana passed a law requiring sterilization of "confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists." Over the next thirty years, twenty-six other states passed similar laws. In the early 1930s, when the Nazis came to power, American states were sterilizing 2,000 to 4,000 people.. Dinesh D'Souza
9859942 The Democrats admittedly have replaced their old rural plantations with new urban plantations called ghettos for blacks, barrios for Latinos, and reservations for American Indians. Dinesh D'Souza