The magic kingdom of Dinesh D'Souza

Despite what the subtitle seems to suggest, this is not merely a book about how left-wingers in this country have always been secret Nazis. Its other thesis is an even juicier one, namely, that the Nazis were by and large rather ordinary New Deal Democrats. “Nazi DNA,” D’Souza explains, “was in the Democratic Party from the very beginning. The Democrats — not the Nazis — are the originators of the politics of hate.” Hitler himself would have been “more at home with Democratic President Andrew Jackson or Democratic Senator John C. Calhoun than he would be with, say, Abraham Lincoln.” To render it in syllogistic form:

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1) Calhoun was a racist.

2) Calhoun was a Democrat.

3) Hitler was a racist.

4) Hitler was a Democrat.

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