Democrats were more racist than the Nazis, says Dinesh D'Souza in a new film; critics are not impressed – U.S. News

The conservative filmmaker pardoned by President Donald Trump in May issues his latest documentary in US theaters this Friday, with Dinesh D'Souza comparing 45 to no less than a president than Abraham Lincoln.
"From a Nation" "cuts through the big, progressive lies to expose the hidden story and explosive truths," says D'Souza – but good luck finding a self-respecting film critic for support the words of Indian conservatives.

"It's tempting to call" the death of a nation "an indignation, but, of course, that's what D'Souza wants," writes Owen Gleiberman in the Variety magazine. "The scandalous untruth is not just his job – it's his public relations machine.
"The film's infamous thesis is that post-war American liberalism is nothing but nazism lagging behind," says Gleiberman, noting that D'Souza says that Adolf Hitler was a "zealot of the left" who frequented the same pub as Lenin; that Josef Mengele was a "progressive" because he practiced abortions in South America after the war; and that Hitler stole the idea of ​​the final solution of the Amerindian genocide. Souza places the responsibility for this particular mbadacre, like all the other problems in America, firmly at the door of the Democratic Party.

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– Death of a Nation Trailer

As in his previous documentaries, Dr. Souza uses historical re-enactments to illustrate his argument that the Nazi party and Hitler were in fact a bunch of liberals. In addition, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mussolini were "cognate spirits," as noted by the AV Club, and Hitler could not be a righteous right winger because he "tolerated" homobaduals in the upper echelons of the # 39; army. he sent to death camps).

A recreation shows several Nazis in the 1930s discussing how they should identify Jews. "How does the American identify the Negro?" Does one request. "A rule of decline – no matter what discernable black ancestry counts as black," says another. "Even if someone acts in white, one can still count them as blacks" asks a third Nazi. "Souza then notes in the narration that," Incredibly, the Nazis have found the Democratic rule of single-drop too racist even for them!

There are other painful pageants featuring Hitler and the Third Reich. A scene shows a young woman protesting against the Nazis throwing lots of documents on a railing in a corridor filled with swastikas. She then said defiantly to her interrogators, "An end to terror is better than an endless terror!"

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– The tweet of the death of a nation

D'Souza may already start making alternative plans for each awards ceremony to be held over the next 12 months.

D'Souza told The Hollywood Reporter that he relied on two sources for Nazi claims in his film: "Hitler's American Model" of James Whitman and "Racism". from George Fredrickson. Oddly, the film actually has a direct link with "Schindler's List" in the producer Gerald R. Molen, who worked on both films.

Critics were insensitive to D'Souza's claims of authenticity. Under the title "More nonsense of Trump's favorite filmmaker," writes Matt Prigge in The Guardian: "All along, D'Souza does what he always does: He drops a bomb, so before you have a chance to recover, it strikes you with another, again and again, for almost two hours. It's a Trumpian movement: Exhaust your enemies (and your followers) through the sheer volume of your non- sense.The confusion through multiplicity has long been one of his favorite tricks, has a bag in a pile of them. "

Some critics have wondered if they should give space to the filmmaker's boastful fan to praise Trump and delusions against the liberals.

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– Hollywood Reporter tweet

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– The A.V. The club's tweet

David Ehrlich of Indiewire was of the opinion that "D'Souza's revisionism is too popular to be ignored, his conspiracy theories being too widely accepted as facts, even his most mediocre documentaries have grossed more than $ 10 million. with monster hits like 'RBG' [about Ruth Bader Ginsburg] and & # 39; Will not you be my neighbor? & # 39; [about Fred Rogers] He may be preaching to the choir, but the choir has become so strong that millions of other Americans can no longer be expected to think: we can call them crazy, but we can not pretend that nobody takes them seriously. "

D'Souza even interviews white supremacist Richard Spencer. However, the Guardian notes that it is "so Souza can ask him suggestive questions, in a comically unconvincing attempt to make him and his fellow Nazis unconscious appear".

The real hero of the movie, of course, is Trump. When the president pardoned Mr. Souza – who was convicted of making an illegal contribution to the campaign and sentenced to five years of probation in 2014 – he told her in May: "You have been a great voice for freedom. you say, man to man, you've been screwed. "

"Death of a Nation" looks like D'Souza's thank you card / release from prison. "Trump has Lincoln's inner hardness, but he needs the Republican Party to support him" "D'Souza springs into the film.

"Death of a Nation" can not make $ 33 million at the box office as Souza's 2012 success, "2016: Obama's America". Yet, it is guaranteed to get many warm "snowflakes" under the collar. We will leave the last word to Ehrlich of Indiewire, who writes: "Donald Trump may have forgiven Dinesh of Souza for his crimes against the country, but I will never forgive him for his crimes against the cinema .

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– David Ehrlich tweet