The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left QUOTES

1 " Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

2 " Fascism is an Italian term that means “groupism” or “collectivism.” The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome—the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

3 " Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but neither was a fascist. Many dictators—Franco in Spain, Pinochet in Chile, Perón in Argentina, Amin in Uganda—were authoritarian without being fascists or Nazis. Trump admittedly has a bossy style that he gets from, well, being a boss. He has been a corporate boss all his life, and he also played a boss on TV. Republicans elected Trump because they needed a tough guy to take on Hillary; previously they tried bland, harmless candidates like Romney, and look where that got them. That being said, Trump has done nothing to subvert the democratic process. While progressives continue to allege a plot between Trump and the Russians to rig the election, the only evidence for actual rigging comes from the Democratic National Committee’s attempt to rig the 2016 primary in favor of Hillary over Bernie. This rigging evoked virtually no dissent from Democratic officials or from the media, suggesting the support, or at least acquiescence, of the whole progressive movement and most of the party itself. Trump fired his FBI director, provoking dark ruminations in the Washington Post about Trump’s “respect for the rule of law,” yet Trump’s action was entirely lawful.18 He has criticized judges, sometimes in derisive terms, but contrary to Timothy Snyder there is nothing undemocratic about this. Lincoln blasted Justice Taney over the Dred Scott decision, and FDR was virtually apoplectic when the Supreme Court blocked his New Deal initiatives. Criticizing the media isn’t undemocratic either. The First Amendment isn’t just a press prerogative; the president too has the right to free speech. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

4 " This is not my view of the matter; it is the Nazi eugenicists’ view of the matter. In the early twentieth century, eugenics and social Darwinism were far more prevalent in America than they were in Germany. Margaret Sanger and her fellow progressive eugenicists didn’t get their ideas for killing off undesirables—or preventing their births—from the Nazis; the Nazis got them from their American counterparts who dominated the field of international eugenics. So there is a two-way traffic between Nazism and the American Left. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

5 " Today we think of fascism’s most famous representative as Adolf Hitler. Yet as I mentioned earlier, Hitler didn’t consider himself a fascist. Rather, he saw himself as a National Socialist. The two ideologies are related in that they are both based on collectivism and centralized state power. They emerge, one might say, from a common point of origin. Yet they are also distinct; fascism, for instance, had no intrinsic connection with anti-Semitism in the way that National Socialism did. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

6 " The fascist synthesis did not view Italy as a society divided by class but rather as a unified country in which all sectors of society could come together. The fascists replaced the old Marxist divide between unproductive capitalists and productive labor with the single category of the productive nation. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

7 " It’s all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascists answered: we do, through the instrument of the powerful centralized state. And this is also, in America, the answer that today’s progressives give. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

8 " In addition, the fascists adopted an economic policy that is closely parallel to, and in many respects identical with, today’s progressivism. Mussolini called this policy “corporatism,” but a more descriptive term would be state-run capitalism. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

9 " Mussolini envisioned a powerful centralized state directing the institutions of the private sector, forcing their private welfare into line with the national welfare. Isn’t this precisely how progressives view the federal government’s control of banks, finance companies, insurance companies, health care, energy, and education? "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

10 " And just weeks into his presidency, even before Trump had done anything that could remotely be considered unconstitutional, Democratic Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Tulsi Gabbard raised the issue of impeachment. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

11 " Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

12 " Moreover, neither the founders nor their successors implemented racist schemes like comprehensive state-sponsored segregation or created institutions like the Ku Klux Klan for the purpose of terrorizing and exterminating blacks. These were inventions of a later era and of a new party founded in the 1820s, the Democratic Party. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

13 " When Mussolini “sold out” he became an outcast. He had neither money nor power. Nor did any of the first fascists embrace fascism for this reason. Rather, they became fascists because they saw fascism as the only way to rescue socialism and make it viable. In other words, their defection was within socialism—they sought to create a new type of socialism that would actually draw a mass following and produce the workers’ revolution that Marx anticipated and hoped for. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

14 " Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are “closely related historical competitors for the same constituents. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

15 " Here is Democrat Robert Byrd, “conscience of the Senate,” lionized by Obama, Hillary, and Bill when he died in 2010, speaking during the war about his reluctance to fight in a racially integrated military: “I am loyal to my country and know but reverence to her flag BUT I shall never submit to fight beneath that banner with a negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see this old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimens from the wilds.”20 "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

16 " And here are simply the titles of a few books published by progressive Democrats in the early twentieth century: Charles Carroll’s The Negro a Beast (1900), Robert Shufeldt’s The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization (1907), Charles McCord’s The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent (1914), and again Shufeldt’s America’s Greatest Problem: The Negro (1915). "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

17 " Consider the proof that progressives typically give to prove Thomas Jefferson’s racism. Here is the smoking gun from Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia: “I advance it therefore as a suspicion only that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstance, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of body and mind.”22 "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

18 " Hundreds of leading socialists, initially in Italy but subsequently in Germany, France, and other countries, also became fascists. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

19 " In fact, I will go further to say that all the leading figures in the founding of fascism were men of the Left. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

20 " The first fascists,” Anthony James Gregor tells us, “were almost all Marxists. "

― Dinesh D'Souza , The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left