Kerby Anderson

Dinesh D’Souza is ready to debunk what he calls The Big Lie, in his book by the same title. The Left have been saying that the president is a fascist and the Republican Party is akin to the Nazi Party. Street thugs and pundits throw around the Nazi card and the fascism card with abandon. He believes it is time to turn the tables and explain who the real fascists are. If you want to see a true fascist, you need to look at Benito Mussolini. His favorite phrase was, “Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” He was a statist who wanted every aspect of society under the control of government. He even considered the word “totalitarian” a positive term. Adolf Hitler also believed in state control, but in a different way. When he assumed leadership of the German Worker’s Party, he changed the name to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. He explained, “We are socialists. We are the enemies of today’s capitalist system of exploitation . . . and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” None of this sounds like the Republican Party. It has usually been the party of small government, political liberty, and economic freedom. If anything, fascism and socialism are more accurate descriptions of the American Left. When he was on my radio program, Dinesh D’Souza also talked about the interesting parallels he saw between Nazi Germany and 20^th century America. Until he did his research, he thought these correlations were interesting but not connected. It turns out that the motivations behind Hitler’s brownshirts and the Ku Klux Klan are more interconnected than he expected. The modern eugenics movement in America (espoused by people like Margaret Sanger) also found a place in the policies in Nazi Germany. The Big Lie may be his most controversial book because he makes connections like this that few others have ever seen.