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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left Kindle Edition

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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." —RUSH LIMBAUGH

The explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Hillary's America, America, and Obama's America.

What is "the big lie" of the Democratic Party? That conservatives—and President Donald Trump in particular—are fascists. Nazis, even. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of "what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor."

But in fact, this audacious lie is a complete inversion of the truth. Yes, there is a fascist threat in America—but that threat is from the Left and the Democratic Party. The Democratic left has an ideology virtually identical with fascism and routinely borrows tactics of intimidation and political terror from the Nazi Brownshirts.

To cover up their insidious fascist agenda, Democrats loudly accuse President Trump and other Republicans of being Nazis—an obvious lie, considering the GOP has been fighting the Democrats over slavery, genocide, racism and fascism from the beginning.

Now, finally, Dinesh D'Souza explodes the Left's big lie. He expertly exonerates President Trump and his supporters, then uncovers the Democratic Left's long, cozy relationship with Nazism: how the racist and genocidal acts of early Democrats inspired Adolf Hitler's campaign of death; how fascist philosophers influenced the great 20th century lions of the American Left; and how today's anti-free speech, anti-capitalist, anti-religious liberty, pro-violence Democratic Party is a frightening simulacrum of the Nazi Party.

Hitler coined the term "the big lie" to describe a lie that "the great masses of the people" will fall for precisely because of how bold and monstrous the lie is. In The Big Lie, D'Souza shows that the Democratic Left's orchestrated campaign to paint President Trump and conservatives as Nazis to cover up its own fascism is, in fact, the biggest lie of all.

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DINESH D'SOUZA has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, D’Souza came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books including America, The Big Lie, Death of a Nation, and United States of Socialism, he is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N39W2DI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery; Illustrated edition (July 31, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 31, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 842 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 287 pages

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Dinesh D’Souza has had a 25-year career as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D’Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He served as the president of The King's College in New York City from 2010 to 2012.

Called one of the “top young public-policy makers in the country” by Investor’s Business Daily, D’Souza quickly became known as a major influencer on public policy through his writings. His first book, Illiberal Education (1991), publicized the phenomenon of political correctness in America’s colleges and universities and became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990s.

In 1995, D’Souza published The End of Racism, which became one of the most controversial books of the time and another national bestseller. His 1997 book, Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, was the first book to make the case for Reagan’s intellectual and political importance. D’Souza’s The Virtue of Prosperity (2000) explored the social and moral implications of wealth.

In 2002, D’Souza published his New York Times bestseller What’s So Great About America, which was critically acclaimed for its thoughtful patriotism. His 2003 book, Letters to a Young Conservative, has become a handbook for a new generation of young conservatives inspired by D’Souza’s style and ideas. The Enemy at Home, published in 2006, stirred up a furious debate both on the left and the right. It became a national bestseller and was published in paperback in 2008, with a new afterword by the author responding to his critics.

Just as in his early years D’Souza was one of the nation’s most articulate spokesmen for a reasoned and thoughtful conservatism, in recent years he has been an equally brilliant and forceful defender of Christianity. What’s So Great About Christianity not only intelligently explained the core doctrines of the Christian faith, it also explained how the freedom and prosperity associated with Western Civilization rest upon the foundation of biblical Christianity. Life After Death: The Evidence shows why the atheist critique of immortality is irrational and draws the striking conclusion that it is reasonable to believe in life after death.

In 2010, D’Souza wrote The Roots of Obama’s Rage (Regnery), which was described as the most influential political book of the year and proved to be yet another best seller.

In 2012, D’Souza published two books, Godforsaken and Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream, the latter climbing to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and inspiring a documentary on the same topic. The film, called "2016: Obama’s America," has risen to the second-highest all-time political documentary, passing Michael Moore's Sicko and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. In addition, 2016 has risen to #4 on the bestselling list of all documentaries.

These endeavors—not to mention a razor-sharp wit and entertaining style—have allowed D’Souza to participate in highly-publicized debates about Christianity with some of the most famous atheists and skeptics of our time.

Born in Mumbai, India, D’Souza came to the U.S. as an exchange student and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.

D’Souza has been named one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers by the New York Times Magazine. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation’s 500 leading authorities on international issues, and Newsweek cited him as one of the country’s most prominent Asian-Americans.

D’Souza’s articles have appeared in virtually every major magazine and newspaper, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including the The Today Show, Nightline, The News Hour on PBS, The O’Reilly Factor, Moneyline, Hannity, Bill Maher, NPR’s All Things Considered, CNBC's Kudlow Report, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

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Steven M Hug

We are in a war for the survival of good, honesty, personal liberty, and faith

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2018

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The Big Lie provides important truths about the two sides now waging a growing political war. These truths have been covered and distorted for many decades. D'Souza exposes only a small aspect of the deceit and damage the Left is promoting. D'Souza gives solutions for Democratic Party controls of U.S. institutions near the end of his book, such as building parallel cultural institutions to compete with the Left’s institutions. While D'Souza notes that Christianity is an enemy of the Left, he does not say that strengthening faith should be one of those solutions. But faith is the fundamental behind all true knowledge. The great weakness of the Left is that it does not put value on the light of Christ. Without that light humanity dwells in darkness. So, the Left is thrashing around spreading lies and disfunction. I don’t say that the Left does not have good intentions, it does. Indeed, the Holy Spirit speaks to their hearts as it does to all mankind – if only they would listen. The Left’s thrust is a return to weakened individual liberty so as to place power in the hands of a few. In short, its simplistic answer is dictatorship of them. Its answer is to extinguish free markets, add more regulations, and tax until the people break. The Left’s ideas would have the effect of putting people into a quasi-slavery. This is precisely what the Left has done to America’s black population while giving them the big lie that they have black folk’s welfare in mind. The Left has put blacks onto a plantation where fences are economic rather than physical; it is a plantation not just where destitution is all too common, it’s a place where impoverishment in all its forms, including fatherless homes, is characteristic. Democrats eagerly encourage every ethnic group to become members of that plantation. Why? For power alone. The Democratic Party is the party of abortion, a word so commonly heard that our minds have become dulled to it. Fascism is the least of Democratic Party crimes. Europeans have learned that liberalism has no mercy. In addition to being wrong about solutions, the Left employs immoral methods, including violence and deceit. D'Souza notes that Mussolini wrote that society is like a body and where the people are cells that service the body. Democrats will agree with Mussolini on that point. But it’s the reverse of what the Founders believed, that governments role is to service the people. Perhaps DeSousa will, in another book, place a return to faith as an essential solution to attraction for socialism and fascism.

How can a return to faith be done in a way that seems not so religiously zealous? Religious zealotry turns many people off. Partly that’s because people do not really believe that God is real. Perhaps talk about God has become boring. But if God is real, then it follows that paying attention to him becomes essential. There is a proof that God is real that has not been part of the conversation. It’s explained in a book, God and Freedom, What Matters in Life. I have seen no other place where this idea, although straight forward and obvious, has been discussed. Perhaps the Left knows about it but dares not bring it up. The way the universe is made is proof that God is real. A highly complex and perfectly ordered universe could not have come into existence by accident. Nothing highly ordered occurs by random, undirected action. To build an ordered thing, energy must be applied and the ordered result must be forced. This fact has a name in physics - The Second Law of Thermodynamics. That is, entropy never decreases in the universe. Which means that, loosely, unless maintained by an outside source, things wear out. Edifices naturally deteriorate.

Just because the Left has obtained control of academia, the press, and Hollywood does not mean that America faces a hopeless problem. A relatively small number of us can lead America back. Only we must rely on God. We must be loyal and faithful to him. Even if we can’t “feel” Christ in our bones, we can “desire” to be given faith, and then we will have it. If we do this, all the institutions the Left controls will turn toward the real truths. Or God will sweep these institutions away. Trump is showing what one man can do when he speaks loudly with courage for what is right. Even Europe will soon look to the USA, under Trump, for guidance. We should understand that we, not the Left, possess the powerful weapons. We have only to use them. We can, for example, accuse them of denials. We can accuse the Left of denying that God is real; we can accuse them of denying that humanity needs God, and cannot do well without faith; we can accuse the Left of denial that some truths are natural and come from God, including denial of freedom of speech and denial of right to life. We can accuse the Left of denial that our conscience is the voice of God. We can accuse the Left of denial that people instinctively have the knowledge of right and wrong because God tells them. The Left is open to the charge that they deny that some moral statements are absolute, not relative. The Left is vulnerable to the charge that it teaches that good and bad are relative, not absolutes. The Left is also trying hard to transform America to a fully secular society, thus remove all remnants of God. Their hope is not merely to cancel freedom of religion, but to abolish Christianity and Judaism. If we look to God for help in a renewal process, life will become hopeful for everyone. Respect and good will come to everyone. Anybody who has read the Bible knows that this is the lesson of the Old Testament.

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Fascism and Nazism are Leftist, not "Right-wing" Philosophies -- Conservative = "Right-wing" is another Big Lie

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017

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Nazism and fascism are “right wing” movements -- the polar political opposites of socialism. Fascists and Nazis employ appeals to traditional morality to gain support. Progressives deplore fascism and always have. Fascists support capitalism. Trump is a fascist. These are aspects of "The Big Lie" that Dinesh D’Souza exposes in his recently released book.

The absurd claim that fascism and Nazism are not socialist movements owes it origin to the hideous reputations those leftist regimes earned after World War II. How could progressives expect to thrive in America if the Holocaust and other atrocities were linked to its political relatives? Consequently, a gigantic lie was perpetrated by leftist intellectuals and slavishly spread by a sympathetic media -- namely, that fascism was a movement of the “far right” and that conservatives were also on “the right.” This “big lie” has long been a staple of Democrat propaganda and the basis for the absurd notion that President Trump is a fascist -- not his violent, GOP-assassinating, speech-suppressing, “Antifa” opponents

Most conservatives are aware of links between fascism and socialism. After all, the term “Nazi” refers to a “National Socialist” party. What many of them, and certainly most Americans, don’t know, thanks to a mendacious media and institutions of advanced deception, are the countless ties (centralized government, racism, eugenics, state-sanctioned violence, and enforced cultural uniformity) that link fascists and even Nazis to the progressive movement.

Indeed, a mutual admiration relationship existed between Mussolini and FDR -- a romance evidenced not only by a White House-organized ticker-tape parade for Mussolini’s aviation minister, but also by New Deal policies like the National Recovery Administration that effectively put the American economy under Roosevelt’s dictatorial control. Not surprisingly, a New York Times journalist praised FDR for following Mussolini’s example -- though the Supreme Court, not yet cowed by FDR’s later fascistic court-packing threat, did not cheer this unconstitutional power grab.

In 1933, FDR himself said of Mussolini, “There seems no question he is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished…” Mussolini, for his part, was thrilled to be called “the Italian Roosevelt.” Even more surprising to Americans weaned on “the big lie” is the fact that Germany’s Nazi press frequently praised FDR in the early 30s. One magazine lauded “the fascist New Deal” in which the central government (as in fascism) exercised substantial control over “private” industry and finance.

Fascism itself, as D’Souza explains, arose due to the spectacular failure of Marx’s predictions about proletarian revolutions. Mussolini and Lenin, both Marxists, proposed different reasons for this failure, but both remained socialists dedicated to centralized government and totalitarian societies. Thus, the bloody feud between fascism and communism was an internecine war akin to the ongoing hostilities between Sunni and Shiite sects within Islam.

D’Souza’s work contains a fair amount of material also found in Jonah Goldberg’s less strident book, "Liberal Fascism" -- especially information about the “proto-fascist” proclivities of the Constitution-despising Woodrow Wilson under whose resegregated regime the “domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party,” the KKK, reemerged in spectacular fashion. "The Big Lie," however, goes beyond Goldberg by linking Progressivism to Nazism via their kindred eugenics-based racist beliefs. D’Souza notes, for example, that Hitler’s anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws were explicitly patterned after Democrat-instituted segregation and anti-miscegenation laws in the South and that progressives in America “outpaced the Nazis in initiating mass programs of forced incarceration and forced sterilization…”

D’Souza also fully addresses a question I posed to Mr. Goldberg after a book lecture in San Diego -- to which question I received an unsatisfactory answer: “How did it come to pass that fascism is commonly called ‘right-wing’?” To this query "The Big Lie" provides a detailed response. The leftist historian Richard Hofstadter began this project by linking Social Darwinism in America to capitalism -- thus transferring racist eugenics from its progressive spawning ground to the conservative “right.” Two Germans émigrés from the Marxist Frankfort School, Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno, subsequently developed the big lie that fascism wasn’t so much a political philosophy as a personality disorder associated with morally repressed conformists and traditional religious folk. In short, fascism became an “authoritarian” neurosis rooted in conservative sentiments.

Never mind that Hitler was a bohemian who despised Christianity, that Mussolini was an atheist, or that fascists hoped to create a new society filled with “supermen” and not suburbanites lounging in hot tubs. Ignore also the fact that fascism is a political philosophy with a background that’s been erased by the primary practitioners of the big lie -- academia, the media, and Hollywood. According to D’Souza, fascism’s philosophical founder was Giovanni Gentile, an Italian who, like Mussolini after him, moved from Marxism to fascism. Most of Gentile’s program could easily be mistaken for any recent Democrat platform.

D’Souza correctly, in my view, sees the “resistance” to Trump as a grave threat designed to undo America’s constitutional system and to institute a progressive conformity of thought and action throughout the country -- a uniformity that is already being enforced by fascistic thuggery and intimidation at Berkeley, Middlebury College, and elsewhere. Unfortunately, talking conservative heads seem largely oblivious to this clear and present danger.

D’Souza’s concluding “Denazification” suggestions, however, don’t inspire confidence. How does one pass Trump’s economic agenda, reach out to minorities, prosecute Obama-era abuses of power, or develop alternative media and entertainment resources in today’s social and political environment? While D’Souza has been successful with his documentaries, one would think it will take decades to make serious inroads into the left’s academic and media dominance. We might not have that much time. Nevertheless, D’Souza has provided conservatives with substantial ammunition. They need not simply scream out the window, “I’m as mad as hell…” They can also tweet, message associates, and vigorously assert to whoever will listen, “Fascism and progressivism are both leftist, socialist disasters! Read this book!”

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Reviewed in Brazil on February 26, 2018

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Para esclarecer a verdade por trás do partido americano Democratas. Esse partido é o nosso PT piorado. São mentirosos - e como! Acusam os outros do que fazem, igualzinho como os petistas fazem por aqui. Vale a pena cada página. Dinesh D' Souza fez uma vasta pesquisa e seu trabalho é fenomenal. Recomendadíssimo.

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Steve Hickey, University of Aberdeen

It's not just a vast left wing conspiracy, it's a deception

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2017

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Important book from a minority American who has been persecuted by the Left for exercising his right to free speech. When responsible historians look back on the present contentions in America they will quickly reject the monolithic myth and false narrative that the tensions and confrontations are simply between good people who deplore racism and a violent group of white supremacists. In other words, Trump will be deemed right in there being "many sides, and believe me there are many sides" as he said in his blanket renunciations of all hate and violence in America after Charlottesville. Responsible historians will deem superficial, easy and lazy the common claims in our day that Trump is a fascist and a Hitler. And, D'Souza will be shown correct in his assessment that the growing fascism in America is in fact on the side of the Left at present, not the right. Those truly against fascism will join him in denouncing Antifa, the Black Panthers, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and streams within Black Lives Matters who cultivate, calculate, fund and commit acts of violence, and assaults on free speech, civil order and public safety.. As responsible historians today meticulously work through the early era of WWII Nazis to identify, nuance and understand the various forces and key figures at work, responsible historians in a future generation will certainly not overlook the well-funded and orchestrated mechanisms in the radical left that use hate and violence as a means to an end and how the deception of the public is a factor in their success.

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Alex Martinez

Refreshing, Validating and Terrifying

Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2018

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This is a fact filled, thoroughly enjoyable read, of a controversial topic which I’m sure many people share but few dare speak out precisely because of the reasons clearly explained in the book by the author. If you are one of those people that look at Antifa behaviour on the news, with their face covered violent and intolerant approach, and wonder “how do these guys call themselves anti-fascists?”, this book is for you. If you suspect there are ideological links between communism, nazism, fascism and modern progressive views, this book is for you. If you’re simply open to a different perspective on what mainstream media incessantly refers to as “fascists”, this book is for you. If you’re Antifa, or have a socialist view of the economy, society and life in general, this book might challenge your views, which is a healthy thing to do, even if you decide to stick to them.

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Tim

Recommended Reading on a History That Is No Longer Taught

Reviewed in Australia on May 14, 2018

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Informative book detailing the history of both Fascism and National Socialism in context with the development of the "Progressive" movement in the United States. Before reading the book I was aware of the history of the Democrats with respect to slavery and racism but this book illustrated how the fascist movements in Europe fed off Democratic policies in the United States and used laws enacted in the United States as templates for their own fascist states.

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