Dinesh DSouza: "Hitler got his ideas from the Democrats!"

[DetlefK]

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/01/fox-guest-dinesh-d-souza-hitler-took-three-very-destructive-genocidal-ideas-democratic-party/217465

"Well, the book uncovers a sort of secret history between fascism and the Democratic Party and the left. This is important because, as you know, fascism is now the card that is played by the left against [President Donald] Trump. Trump is a fascist, Republicans are the party of fascism. I show that the opposite is true. Fascism has always been on the left. I also point out three ideas that Hitler got, very destructive, genocidal ideas from the Democratic Party."




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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Germany has just suffered a brutal, humiliating defeat in WWI.
Communism is threatening the european way-of-life.
Historical economic crises are crushing the german economy in 1923 and 1929.
Pseudo-darwinian racial theories are widespread in european society.
Mussolini invents fascism in Italy.
The NSDAP brown-shirts are regularly getting into bloody streetfights with communist thugs.

But it was the Democrats who gave Hitler his ideas. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[hatrack]

1. Yes, he called Obama on the Magic Time Phone right after the Beer Hall Putsch . . .

[JHB]

27. It's consistent with Obama placing notices of his birth in Hawaiian papers...

Oh, dang, I think I know who the 15th Doctor is going to be.

[onenote]

2. Right. It was those damn leftist Jews that gave Hitler his ideas.

Fucking moron.

[spanone]

3. oh, fuck this guy

[Gothmog]

4. Who cares what a felon thinks?

[Dave Starsky]

12. I really thought that asshole was in prison.

Literal voter fraud, or something.

Like all such crimes, it's okay if you're a Republican.

[dalton99a]

33. Exactly.

[JHan]

5. Dinesh D'Souza - fraud of the highest order.

[lunasun]

6. Will there be a new movie for the stupid people in the world who follow him?

[Johonny]

7. I thought Jonah Goldberg had the market saturated in liberal-Hitler comparisons

Conservative, one who is never afraid to take a dried up failed idea and try to squeeze another buck from it.

[underpants]

19. You beat me to it

Post #9 below.

[itcfish]

8. Why isn't this evil liar

in jail? Didn't he get prosecuted for some crime not to long ago?

[underpants]

9. So the joke, liar and criminal is now ripping off douchebag Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" bullshit

Yes I actually fit that all into the subject line.

No one takes this miserable joke seriously except the easy marks.

[Doc_Technical]

13. When is Jonah Goldberg going to write a follow up book

to "Liberal Fascism" and call it "Conservative Communism".
You need a second oxymoron to counteract the first.

[underpants]

16. I actually wanted to read that book

But I'm not buying it and I'm not going to be seen walking around with a Hitler 'stached smiley face. That's the only copy my library had.

[angrychair]

10. What have I told you

Never go full Hitler, no one takes you seriously after that, never go full Hitler!

[underpants]

17. :-)

[SharonClark]

11. Hitler and DSouza - two evil liars

[CincyDem]

14. Well yeah...

...dontcha know, it was all Hillary's idea.

(in case I need it on this one...lol).

[Renew Deal]

15. Did he learn that in prison?

[gratuitous]

18. Adulterous ex-con says what?

Oh look, Dinesh has another book to sell. Isn't it sweet that some publishing house thinks his scribblings are worth money? Now, let's talk about how raising the minimum wage turns workers into slothful, lazy layabouts who don't contribute anything to society.

[underpants]

22. Here's a classic. Colbert (old show) makes a complete FOOL out of D'Souza

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2tdkm8/the-colbert-report-dinesh-d-souza

This s is my recap the next day on DU. 2007.


So D'Souza was on to promote his latest book "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11" (remember that title it comes in handy later) and after he claims that Reagan's selling of Hawk missiles to Ghaddafi kept him out of the terrorism business (huh?) he went on to claim that gays were part of the reason that 9/11 happened oh and then he admitted that he really didn't know very much about gay culture.


THEN it got weird.

Colbert actually got him to admit that he, D'Souza, agreed with "some of the things that these radical Islamic fundamentalist have to say" as Colbert put it "you do agree with that statement don't you"

D'Souza "Yes"

then and I mean right then Colbert says (~paraphrased) "So the left is the cause of why 9/11 happened"

D'Souza "I think that is taking it a bit far"

Colbert "That is why I had you on the show because I agree with that statement (pointing to and reading from the book cover)The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11"

D'Souza (incredulously) "I DIDN'T DO 9/11!!!"

Colbert then went on to turn it back on the the left and Hollywood taking his foot off D'Souza's neck if you will.

The funniest part was that D'Souza didn't seem to know what was happening. Colbert used an old tactic that RW radio host do all the time-keep reasking a question cutting off the replies until you make a statement and ask if they agree with it. I watched this thing a couple of times (sorry didn't take exact notes on the quotation), the audience's response is muted a bit but some appear to realize what Colbert had just gotten D'Souza to do-REJECT HIS OWN THESIS.

[ProfessorPlum]

29. fantastic

thanks for posting, both the link and the commentary

[Yavin4]

20. The vacuousness of modern conservative intellectual thinking these days truly astounds me.

They've gone beyond pure greed and ignorance to highly fanciful, completely delusional discourse. They're literally pulling ideas out of thin air.

[Paladin]

21. Why this empty-headed lawbreaker still gets attention is a mystery. (nt)

[no_hypocrisy]

23. If he wants to go THERE, all right.

1. Hitler got his ideas for mass extermination of Jews, gypsies, lesbians & gays, etc. from the United States. In the Twenties, states were sterilizing wholesale populations that were poor and uneducated and sometimes mentally challenged under the guise of feeble-mindedness. Hitler started with sterilization and moved ahead with extermination.

2. Hitler had a photo of Henry Ford hanging in his anteroom because of Ford's virulent anti-Semitism (published in his newspaper) and Ford's endorsement of state-sponsored eugenics to breed a better generation.

3. While the *Southern* democrats of the Twenties and the Thirties leaned toward segregation, the KKK, and Jim Crow laws, it was a segment of the party, not the party itself. If anyone was Fascist, it was a certain segment of republican business leaders who proposed a Putsch to remove FDR from office by the military and install a corporate leader in his place to run the country.

[louis-t]

24. Well, look who crawled out from under his rock

puked on the sidewalk and farted out a lie before returning to the damp, stinky place under his rock. It's Dense DeSousaphone.

[lpbk2713]

25. When you invoke Hitler you lose the argument automatically.

Back to the showers with you Kid.

[C_U_L8R]

26. D'Souza should learn D'Google

What a D'dope.

[procon]

28. Flunked History 101, gets his factoids from Alt History Fiction novels. nt

[MiddleClass]

30. He wrote a book, in jail? Good use of his time

Obviously, facts are stubborn things.

Hitler was one of the founders of the Nazi party.

The opposition at the time was called the Socialist Democrats.

The opposite, in the reasons the Nazis got a footing.

Socialist Democrats were enamored with Stalin and communism. The opposite of fascism.

It looks like prison time did not help his brain,

if he didn't go to prison for election fraud maybe, should have

[DetlefK]

34. You got some details mixed up.

The biggest parties at the time were:
NSDAP - nationalist, fascist, anti-liberal, racist
Zentrum - basically centrists
SPD - social-democrats, center-left
KPD - communists, extreme left

The democracy of the Weimarer Republik was young and inexperienced and had no system in place how to deal with political sabotage.
The Communists and the NSDAP both wanted to see democracy gone and both sabotaged the parliamentary process. Crisis ensued, except the NSDAP was able to outmaneuver the KPD by allying with Big Money and used the political chaos to their advantage. The KPD lost the power-struggle and was destroyed.

But make no mistake: Hitler rose to power because democracy was under attack from both sides.

[sinkingfeeling]

31. The history denier speaks nonsense again.

[Initech]

32. No but the republicans are getting their cues from Hitler.

Things like white supremacy and Christian nationalism, for starters!

[Ninsianna]

35. So the Governor of Indiana who engaged in eugenics was a Democrat?

It seems Din-Din is blinded by his colonial mindset and ignorant of the history of the party he serves.

*The governor in question is J. Frank Hanly of Indiana, in 1907. They were a nasty bunch even before the 60's.