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

81 " These incriminating facts are known to many progressive scholars. But after World War II, as this group came increasingly to dominate the academy—a dominance that was fully consolidated by the late 1960s—the progressives recognized how crushing it would be if Americans knew about the actual record of progressivism and the Democratic Party. What if people, especially young people, knew the links between revered progressive figures like Wilson, FDR, and JFK on the one hand, and the hated Mussolini and Hitler on the other? Such knowledge would not merely topple progressive heroes from their pedestal. Basically it would be the end of progressivism and the Democratic Party. "

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

82 " So progressives decided to tell a new story, and this is the story that has now become our conventional wisdom. In this story, the very fascism and Nazism that were, from the outset, on both sides of the Atlantic, recognized as left-wing phenomena now got moved into the right-wing column. Suddenly Mussolini and Hitler became “right-wingers,” and the people who supposedly brought them to power became “conservatives.” The Left, then, became the glorious resisters of fascism and Nazism. "

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

83 " As should be obvious by now, the Nazi race laws were the precise equivalent of the Democratic Party’s race laws. It isn’t merely that the former provided a precedent for the latter; the two sets of laws also had the same functional purpose. Just as the segregation and discrimination laws were intended to supplement, and in some respects replace, the random violence of the Ku Klux Klan, so too the Nuremberg Laws and Nazi discrimination laws were intended to supplement, and in some respects replace, the random violence of the brownshirts. In this respect, as in so many others, the Nazis and the Democrats draw so close that it becomes increasingly difficult to tell one from the other. "

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

84 " Jackson’s men cut off the noses of dead Indians as they counted the bodies. Afterwards there were few regrets; one of Jackson’s soldiers chuckled that he had killed a boy “five or six years of age” for the reason that “he would have become an Indian someday.”22 "

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

85 " When you fuse the two ideas of “nation” and “socialism,” what you get is National Socialism. "

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

86 " Mussolini created the first National Socialism, stripped of its German racial connotations. His was a vision of a nation organized along socialist lines in which everyone would share in the benefits and all would contribute their due portion. This language of course has Obama overtones, and we see an obvious congruence between the fascist unification and the modern progressive insistence that America is a single community and that everyone should come together and each one contribute his “fair share. "

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

87 " The roots of fascism fully expose the connection between fascism and America’s political Left, and the antithesis between fascism and America’s political Right. "

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

88 " Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for. "

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

89 " Hitler didn’t know a lot about America. He had never been to America. And he despised America. “My feelings against Americanism,” he later said in 1942, “are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance.” Why? He claimed, “Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it’s half Judaised and the other half negrified. "

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

90 " Historian Ira Katznelson tells us, “Hitler denigrated blacks, admired American racism, and regretted the South’s defeat in 1865. "

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

91 " But the rule itself required 100 percent whiteness in order to qualify for attending a white school, or drinking from a white water fountain, or frequenting the white section of a public beach. This as we saw earlier is the rule that even the Nazis found a bit too extreme and repellent. "

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

92 " Interestingly while the Nuremberg Laws are now history, the “one drop rule” is very much with us, not only as a matter of law but also as a matter of personal identity. Think about Obama: he’s half white and half black, yet he identifies as black. Many African Americans have white ancestry, yet they consider themselves black. Why? Because of the one-drop rule. If any of these people tried to self-identify as white—or refuse to racially classify themselves at all—left-wing groups like the Black Caucus and the Southern Poverty Law Center would condemn them for it. "

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

93 " The Census Bureau, even today, counts blacks and whites according to the one-drop rule and uses it to implement a host of affirmative action and other race-based programs. "

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

94 " Actually, we do have our Mengele, and his name is Kermit Gosnell. Since 1979, Gosnell ran an abortion clinic called the Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia. There he performed late-term abortions and partial-birth abortions, mostly on poor women. If by some mistake children were born alive, Gosnell killed them in a process he termed “ensuring fetal demise.” Gosnell’s preferred technique for abortion was to heavily drug the premature infants and then stick scissors into their necks and cut the spinal cord. Over a period of three decades, Gosnell killed hundreds if not thousands of children in this way, far more than Mengele killed during his two-year stint at Auschwitz.4 "

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

95 " Gosnell is our Mengele, we also have our Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and its name is Planned Parenthood. Gosnell didn’t work for Planned Parenthood, but neither did Mengele work for the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Yet both men had institutional legitimacy for their work that came from the longtime support and advocacy of organizations like Planned Parenthood and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Both men saw themselves as pioneers working on the scientific and progressive frontier; Gosnell carried forward the Planned Parenthood vision in precisely the same way that Mengele viewed himself carrying forward the vision of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. "

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

96 " As we will see, Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid admirer of Mussolini who sought to import Italian fascist schemes to America. FDR also collaborated with the worst racist elements in America, working with them to block anti-lynching laws and exclude blacks from New Deal programs and name a former Klansman to the Supreme Court. "

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

97 " Mussolini, for his part, praised FDR’s book Looking Forward and basically declared FDR to be a fellow fascist. Hitler too saw FDR as a kindred spirit and the New Deal was widely praised as an American form of fascism in the Nazi Party’s official newspaper Volkischer Beobachter and other Nazi publications. "

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

98 " Think about this: while black culture is a vibrant presence in America today, Indian culture is ignored, forgotten, virtually nonexistent. Even after the Holocaust, Jewish culture thrives, in Israel, America, and around the world. By contrast, American Indians seem still to bear the original shock of their displacement and virtual obliteration as a people. "

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

99 " In 1935, seven years before the Nazis fully implemented the Final Solution, Hitler advocated emigration and ghettoization as interim solutions to the Jewish problem. The Jews, Hitler said, must be “removed from all professions, ghettoized, restricted to a particular territory, where they can wander about, in accordance with their character, while the German people looks in, as one looks at animals in the wild.”30 "

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

100 " Stannard begins with a stunning statistic: of the ten to twelve million native Indians who once populated the American continent, between 90 and 95 percent perished as a consequence of exposure to the white man. This is a catastrophic event, by any measure, but even so Stannard admits that most of these deaths were due to plagues and epidemics unwittingly transmitted from Europeans to the Indians. Whatever we call this, we cannot call it genocide because genocide involves the intent to exterminate a population. "

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