Dinesha D’Souza comes to Convo Select, talks fascism and progressivism

Political commentator and filmmaker Dinesha D’Souza shared ideas from his new film, “Death of a Nation,” with Liberty University students at Convo Select Nov. 5. 

“Death of a nation is intended to say that if the progressive’s ‘birth of a nation’ principle is allowed to play itself out, it will kill America,” D’Souza said. “The death of a nation is the implementation of the full progressive ideology. Repudiating that ideology and replacing it with the original principles of the American founding. It’s those same enduring principles that will be the salvation of America.” 

D’Souza spoke on “fake” narratives and focused on his study of the left- versus right-wing debate over fascism and progressivism. 

“Everybody wants progress — the debate is over, what does progress mean?” D’Souza said.

Fake news was also briefly addressed.

D’Souza mentioned that one of the Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh accusers, Judy Munro-Leighton has renounced her story. Chairman Chuck Grassley referred her to the Justice Department and FBI. 

“Fake news. What she was trying to do was corroborate with Susan Ford’s accusation, and she was manufacturing events — she never met Kavanaugh,” D’Souza said. 

The prominent Kavanaugh accuser who gave testimony at the Kavanaugh hearing was Christine Margaret Blasey Ford, not Susan Ford. 

“The reason fake news works is that there’s a complicit media to promulgate the accusation and not investigate,” D’Souza said.

Progress, according to D’Souza, is defined as moving away from America’s founding principles. 

D’Souza said the left wing, which controls the media and entertainment, has the power to control the narrative of history and has spun moments in America’s history to align with progressive ideas. 

According to D’Souza, the progressive influence comes from the Democratic Party’s control of the three “megaphones” of culture: academia, Hollywood and media. He said this overture of left-wing influence in these influential industries is called “progressive history.”

“The lie was manufactured by very smart people who came to power in academia and media and Hollywood,” D’Souza said. 

D’Souza’s main point was that there is a monopoly of political influence — the Democratic Party has rewritten the rules of the game, holds the property cards and is the game banker. D’Souza proposed the appropriate counter is to build institutions in those three areas of major influence: academia, Hollywood and media. D’Souza has tried to combat Hollywood by making films and said he would like to see conservative comedians.

“We have to figure out how to break their monopoly in these institutions, and ultimately, it will happen generationally — it will take time,” D’Souza said. “It’s a good time to start.” 

D’Souza also briefly mentioned the President Donald Trump persona and rhetoric. 

“Republicans nominated one Boy Scout after another, like Romney, and got beaten to a pulp and finally realized the other side has gone gangster on us,” D’Souza said. “Let’s … have a gangster on our side.” 

That gangster was Trump, according to D’Souza, who also compared the president to Abraham Lincoln. 

When Lincoln won a close election and “all hell broke loose,” Democrats said they would rather break up the country than have Lincoln as their leader and called to assassinate him. 

“The reason that history matters is because history is used as a weapon today,” D’Souza said. “All the sins of the past, the left is trying to pin on the Republican party. This is the point of the big switch we (Democratic Party) might have been the bad guys, but the whole baggage of the stuff (they) did, (they) are now going to get to saddle on the other guys (the Republican Party), who never did it and fought us (Democratic Party). And we can make the good guys into the bad guys, we (Democratic Party) traded platforms and the whole conversion of (Lyndon B. Johnson). This is the same guy that would use the (N-word) after he signed the Civil Rights Act.”  The full conversation can be watched on Liberty’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/LibertyUniversity.