Summary of Dinesh D'Souza's Death of a Nation

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On July 6, 2017, Trump addressed the death of America in an address to the Polish people in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square. He spoke not of America, but of Western civilization, and stated that the West does not stand alone against its enemies.
#2 Trump’s supporters consider him to be the serial killer of America’s most cherished values and institutions. He and his followers threaten the survival of the West by promoting religious and racial exclusivity.
#3 The whole manic resistance to Trump is widespread and genuine. Many people are convinced that Trump poses a fundamental danger to America’s survival as a diverse, open, and lawful democratic society.
#4 Trump is a racist and a white supremacist, and his voters are as well. Trump’s supporters are willing to restore whiteness to its former status as a marker of national identity, and they are willing to kill small children attending Sunday school, according to progressive novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

Sujets

• Religion
• Conservatism
• Liberalism
• Political Science
• Political Ideologies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9798822512740
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Dinesh D'Souza's Death of a Nation
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On July 6, 2017, Trump addressed the death of America in an address to the Polish people in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square. He spoke not of America, but of Western civilization, and stated that the West does not stand alone against its enemies.

#2

Trump’s supporters consider him to be the serial killer of America’s most cherished values and institutions. He and his followers threaten the survival of the West by promoting religious and racial exclusivity.

#3

The whole manic resistance to Trump is widespread and genuine. Many people are convinced that Trump poses a fundamental danger to America’s survival as a diverse, open, and lawful democratic society.

#4

Trump is a racist and a white supremacist, and his voters are as well. Trump’s supporters are willing to restore whiteness to its former status as a marker of national identity, and they are willing to kill small children attending Sunday school, according to progressive novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

#5

Trump’s support among racists, Nazis, and fascists is not limited to the pardoning of Arpaio. It is also seen in the labeling of all conservatives and Republicans as Nazis and fascists.

#6

Trump and the right are accused of promoting the most toxic strains of European and American bigotry.

#7

The progressive argument for how Trump and the right are destroying America is based on history. Through history, we know what terms like fascism, racism, and white supremacy mean, and we know what they do, because they have already wrought havoc around the world.

#8

White supremacy is the ideology of torture, theft, and enslavement, and it exists today in all of its cruelty. It is the existential threat to America and the world.

#9

Coates’s writings make it seem like the Democratic Party is the party of progress and civil rights, while the Republican Party is the party of racism and white supremacy.

#10

The progressive narrative that America is racist and that the South was solely to blame for slavery is a lie. While some Americans perpetrated these crimes, other Americans stopped them.

#11

The Democratic Party, which today seeks to capture the entire country, originally sought to enslave only blacks. However, they now seek to turn all of America into a plantation, with every ethnic group dependent on and controlled from a new Big House, which is the centralized state.

#12

Lincoln’s plantation prophecy was not a mere speculation. It was based on close reasoning drawn from the 1857 Dred Scott decision permitting slavery in the territories. The Supreme Court might issue a second decision, concluding by its exact same reasoning that no state could outlaw slavery.

#13

The modern Democratic Party is based on the slave plantation model, and they have been able to sustain that model in the modern era by creating new types of plantations that debase and imprison the minds of their inhabitants.

#14

The old plantation was destroyed by the Civil War. Prior to that, the plantation was the model of Democratic governance and Democratic political domination. Democrats had concocted a whole ideology, the positive-good school of slavery, to uphold and defend the plantation.

#15

After the Civil War, the Democrats had to rebuild themselves. This reconstruction involved not abandoning the plantation system, but rather reinventing it using a new tool of enslavement: white supremacy.

#16

While the Democratic Party claims to be the party of black lives, it was the progressive Democrats led by Woodrow Wilson who invented white nationalism and white supremacy to keep poor whites in thrall to the Democratic Party.

#17

The Democratic Party has always had a centralized state, the same attachment to it, and the same fascist streak when using the instruments of the state against their political opponents.

#18

The Democratic Party had always used black voters as a commodity, but LBJ saw the importance of turning them into a constituency. He realized that if the Democrats were going to keep their majority, they would need more black votes.

#19

The Republican Party’s ideology today is the same as it was during the time of Abraham Lincoln, while the Democratic Party’s ideology today is the same as it was during the time of slavery.

#20

The new plantation is based on the dependent black, Latino, or Native American voter. These voters do not work, but rather live off of government support. They are used to generate an electoral majority for Democrats, who then loot the national treasury.

#21

Today, the Democratic Party uses racism to exploit and control black people, while they remain completely indifferent to the struggles of other minorities.

#22

Some white nationalists, who would usually identify with the Democratic Party, end up supporting Trump because of his American nationalism, which at least makes space for all citizens.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Francis Scott Key, the author of the American anthem, wrote it after watching the bombardment of the British fleet during the War of 1812. His song was a popular tune for Union troops during the Civil War, and became the national anthem in 1916.

#2

The paradox of American history is that while the founders wrote slavery and white supremacy into the Constitution, they also had no intention of including blacks in the Declaration of Independence.

#3

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott, which affirmed a constitutional right to own slaves, was widely hailed by Democrats. It emboldened the Southern Democrats to press their case for secession.

#4

Lincoln addressed the claim that the founders did not believe in equality for blacks, saying that they most certainly did. He said that the entire Republican Party was only concerned with restoring America’s original statesmanship regarding slavery.

#5

Lincoln’s speech at Cooper Union in 1854 won him the presidency by convincing the influential Republicans of the Northeast that he was their man. He pointed out that the framers of the Constitution were antislavery men, and that a clear majority of them had voted to ban or restrict slavery.

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