Dinesh D’Souza on His Provocative New Film, Death of a Nation
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RUSH: I can understand with a project like this, but I have to ask you — and as a powerful, influential member of the media, I, my friends, have seen a special copy. Meaning it’s been captioned and so forth. Dinesh, are you really worried…? Death of a Nation, that’s a very provocative title. Are you really worried that we’re looking at the death of our nation here and your movie here is attempting to fire people up to the danger, the severity we face?
D’SOUZA: I’m alerting people to what will happen if we let the logic of the progressive Democrats play itself out. In fact, almost a hundred years ago the progressive Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, showed the movie Birth of a Nation, a pro-Ku Klux Klan movie in the White House, and this led to a national revival of the Klan. And the reason that movie was titled Birth of a Nation, is that the progressive Democrats were saying, “We don’t like the founding; we’re starting America all over again.”
And the unifying glue of that was actually racism. So ironically, my argument is that if you play out the logic of the progressive Democrats, ultimately they will kill America. I don’t mean they’ll destroy the land. But what they will destroy is the soul of America, what makes America unique, the principles of the American founding. That’s why I used the title Death of a Nation. It in a sense is a reference to the progressive, racist film Birth of a Nation.
RUSH: Folks, you really… If you do go see this, there is a bombshell in this movie, where Dinesh D’Souza makes the case that the left in this country is so far gone on race and so far gone on progressivism that even the Nazis back in the ’30s and ’40s thought the Democrats of America were too extreme, correct?
D’SOUZA: Yes, we have a riveting scene, Rush —
The left has been suppressing this kind of information ever since World War II because they know that if people realized the deep connections between the Democrat Party and the progressive movement on this side of the Atlantic and the fascists in Italy and the national socialists in Germany, that it would be… It would leave the progressives and Democrats discredited. That’s why “The Big Lie” came in effect.
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