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[Applause]
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thank you very much delighted to be here
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on a kind of fateful day in American
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politics the United States in 2018 it's
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probably more fractured more divided
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than at any time since 1860 when Abraham
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Lincoln an outsider a Republican won a
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close election and one may say all hell
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broke loose
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I've been trying to make sense of the
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results of yesterday I think we'd have
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to say that there was no blue wave and
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there was no red wave what we got was a
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certain kind of political draw but
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that's not a meeting in the middle but
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rather that the Democrats had one good
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thing happen and the Republicans have
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had one good thing happened which has
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now topped off by a second good thing
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for the Democrats the good thing is to
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capture the house and that's important
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not because the Democrats can do
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anything with it but it does give them a
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sort of place to launch projectiles and
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it gives them a chance to launch
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investigations of course they can pass
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legislation but it's gonna go nowhere it
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is also a way to check Trump and I
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suspect that there is a feeling in
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America among some people including some
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Republicans the Trump is a man who could
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use a little bit of checking now on the
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Republican side there is also good news
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and that is that Republicans have a kind
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of secure majority in the Senate which
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the Republicans didn't have before so
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the Republicans have actually traded
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control
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before they really had the house but
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they didn't have the Senate and they
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were dependent on a very precarious one
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or two votes particularly for Court
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appointments and that's why the
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Cavanaugh thing was just so close but
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now Republicans have a clean majority in
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the Senate and that means that Ruth
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Bader Ginsburg better take her vitamins
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because otherwise we could quickly go
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from five four to six three and it is
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not inconceivable that you could also
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have seven two so if you ask most
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Republicans would you trade the house
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for a reasonable shot at six three or
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seven two and the court I suspect most
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would make that bargain very quickly
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today something very interesting
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happened and that is that Jeff Sessions
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aka Rip Van Winkle has been put out on
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the sidewalk and the reports are that
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rod Rosenstein his sidekick the
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initiator of the Moller investigation
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might soon follow this is really
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important because Trump's great weakness
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in the past two years has been that the
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guy does not control his own Justice
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Department this is because of trumps
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greatest mistake of his presidency which
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was not to fire Comey and Rosenstein on
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day one he could have done it easily no
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one would have questioned it it would
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have saved them a whole lot of problems
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one of the downsides of being an
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outsider is that you come in and you
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sort of try to figure things out and by
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the time you figured them out all kinds
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of things have taken off including the
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appointment of a special prosecutor but
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now Trump has actually the chance to
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name his own guy and what that means is
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that if the Democrats initiate
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investigations the Justice Department
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can initiate counter investigations and
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this is all the way of saying that
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American politics has entered a sort of
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fractious troubling phase there's a
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breakdown of civility I think we know
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that
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there's certainly a rising level of
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emotional intensity we know that I just
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saw on social media video of a protester
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screaming about my presence here tonight
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he white guy and he goes you don't know
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what it means to be a person of color
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and I thought well there's one thing I
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do know it's that and if there's one
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thing you don't it's that but
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nevertheless this notion of me being
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educated by whites on what it is like to
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be an immigrant not a new experience but
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nevertheless intriguing I want to speak
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tonight about the sort of deep undertow
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of this debate it's a kind of culture
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war some would call it a cold civil war
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it's obviously not a hot civil war you
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don't have grand armies moving across
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planes but it's a cold civil war in that
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there is a clear secession of the
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American mind and what I mean by that is
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that you have two groups of Americans
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who see the same things the same facts
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let's say the Cavanaugh hearings but
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they see them completely differently and
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intellectually this is a problem how is
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it possible for intelligent people to
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see the same facts and interpret them so
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differently well clearly the bringing
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different assumptions different lens you
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might say to the camera and the premises
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embedded in the debate that are
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completely rejected by the other side
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believe all victims or even take
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something like he said she said now for
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those of us who are supporters of
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Kavanagh this was not a case of he said
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she said why because he said she said
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only applies in a situation where both
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parties are completely unknown and you
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have no basis for actually assigning
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credibility to either one if a cop goes
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into a domestic violence complaint he
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said she said you don't know anything
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about the two parties and so you have to
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give them
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equal credibility or equal lack of
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credibility but with cabinets not like
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that
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and with Kavanagh it's more select
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something like this someone comes out
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and accuses Albert Einstein of faking
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his equations well that's not he said
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she said Albert Einstein is a public
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figure
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innumerable scientists have testified to
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the to his credibility and intellectual
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probity and in the case of Cavanaugh you
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have innumerable people who have worked
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with them over decades testifying to his
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personal decency and rectitude and then
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you have a complete nobody who pops out
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of nowhere scrubs or social media so
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that's not he said she said you have two
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figures of completely unequal public
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credibility and so anyone who starts to
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debate what he said see she said is
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distorting the lens of the debate
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distorting the lens of the argument well
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now I use the Cavanaugh example merely
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to make a point which is that there is a
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divide and the divide is over facts over
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news over what some people call fake
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news I'm going to talk tonight not so
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much about fake news but I'm going to
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talk about fake scholarship and I'm
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going to talk about fake history and
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fake scholarship and fake history are
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the key the key to the narrative that
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the political left has generated in
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America and all our public accusations
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are based upon this deeper narrative if
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the narrative is false a lot of what we
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hear in the public domain collapses so
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take something really simple Trump is a
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fascist we hear this all the time we
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hear are we hearing it since Trump's
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election and you turn on Rachel Maddow
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krishnaji Trump is a fascist they know
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it but this notion this accusation the
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Trump is a fascist is parasitic on a
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deeper claim and the deeper claim is
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fascism is a phenomenon of the right
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it's a right-wing thing think about it
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if fascism were left-wing
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then it would make no sense to call
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Trump a fascist and yet the notion that
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fascism is right-wing is not something
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recent it didn't it wasn't concocted
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with Trump it's in fact 75 years old
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this notion that fascism is on the right
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started after World War two it's in our
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textbooks it's on the History Channel
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it's in Wikipedia it's all over the
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place and yet this notion that fascism
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is on the right is rarely challenged
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it's rarely challenged and in fact it is
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so dangerous to challenge it we see it
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right now that when you begin to do it
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the it disturbs people it unnerves them
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why because their worldview is at stake
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if I could demonstrate tonight that
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fascism was on the left the real
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fascists would have to shut up
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the real fascist would have to suddenly
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say wait a minute
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we have been masquerading as
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anti-fascist we excuse all kinds of
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barbaric conducts reckoning people
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intimidating them shouting at them
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beating them up on the grounds that
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those guys are the fascists and we are
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the anti-fascists but if the truth is
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the opposite if the truth is the
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opposite then the whole political
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landscape has to be redrawn and the real
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thugs become unmasked for who they are
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so I'm going to take that risk tonight
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of pushing down and examining a couple
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of key episodes of American history just
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to ask two questions who are the real
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racists and who are the real fascists
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yes
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buckle your seat belts buckle your seat
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belts I'm going to start with the issue
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of I'm going to start with the issue of
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racism racism which became embedded in
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America because of the long-standing
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practice of slavery slavery was you
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might say the institutionalized context
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for racism in the United States and yet
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this racism interestingly enough is
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always blamed
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the left on the American founders they
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started it there are the culprits and
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the proof of this if you want to pick it
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right off progressive literature from
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Howard Zinn or any of these other shady
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characters who masquerade as historians
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it's the three-fifths clause hey it says
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right there in the Constitution
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african-americans are worth three-fifths
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of a human being now if this were true
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we would have to admit that the American
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Founding was seriously flawed but it so
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happens that it is demonstrably not true
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and it is easy to verify by simply
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looking at the context for the actual
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debate which was a debate between the
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north and the south and it was a debate
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not over slavery directly but over
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political representation over the
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assignment of congressmen for example
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and in this debate very interestingly
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the North wanted blacks to count for
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zero and the South wanted blacks to
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count for one why because the South
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wanted more representation to strengthen
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the power of slavery and the North
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wanted to count blacks to zero
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not because they were racist but because
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they wanted to weaken the power of the
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south and the three-fifths compromise
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was a middle ground between the North
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and the South in the sense the two sides
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agreeing to find a point at which they
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could both move ahead and one can debate
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if this was a good compromise or not but
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what one cannot debate is that this said
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absolutely nothing about the intrinsic
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value of black life or about the
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intrinsic value of blacks as human
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beings the issue was the North was using
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the compromise to break the back of
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slavery in the south and weaken slave
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represent the power of southern
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representation these this is an
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historical fact I want to vault forward
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a little bit and now come to Abraham
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Lincoln
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and they come to Lincoln because Lincoln
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was the great student of the American
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Founding and Lincoln is very important
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because today the left has tried to
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appropriate Lincoln Lincoln was a
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liberal Lincoln was a progressive if
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Lincoln had lived today he would be you
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know a member of an tyfa really now
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history is a matter of trying to get
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into the spirit and the mind of people
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who live at the time the interesting
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thing about Abraham Lincoln is not once
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in his life or his writings did he ever
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call himself a liberal
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not once did he ever call himself a
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progressive in fact the whole concept of
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progressivism developed later it's a
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phenomena in the late 19th century and
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the early 20th century after Lincoln the
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one thing that Lincoln did call himself
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repeatedly was you guessed it a
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conservative and what Lincoln said is I
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am conserving the principles of the
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American Founding now when Lincoln
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described slavery he described it this
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way you work I eat and this is a very
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profound understanding of slavery it's
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not even racial the basic idea is one
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guy gets to work and the other guy
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steals the fruit of his labor and
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disposes of it as he deems fit so this
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is slavery it's essentially confiscation
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and theft and Lincoln says very
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interestingly this is the cradle not of
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the south but of the Democratic Party in
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the north and the south this is what
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Democrats believe this is who they are
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at their core and then Lincoln defines
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who the Republicans are by contrast he
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goes Republicans believe quote the hand
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that makes the corn has the right to put
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the corn into its own mouth the
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principle here is very simple people
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should get to keep the fruit
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of their own labor it's the anti-slavery
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principle we own ourselves we have a
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right to keep what we earn and here's
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Lincoln's definition of social justice
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you keep what you make and I'll keep
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what I make
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the street sweeper has no more right to
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take the earnings of the brain surgeon
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than the brain surgeon has the right to
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take the earnings of the street sweeper
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this is Lincoln's doctrine and I
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mentioned this because today it's not
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uncommon for me on campus to encounter
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professor world the nurse you absolutely
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know that the two parties switched sides
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well did they really switch sides
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let's examine isn't it isn't it true
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today that the core principle of Trump
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and of the Republican Party is that the
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hand that makes the corn should eat the
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corn and is it not a fact well we're
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happy I'm happy discuss it I think it is
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and the core principle of the Democratic
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Party today is also just the one that
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Lincoln defined you work and I eat one
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guy gets to work and another group of
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scoundrels confiscates what he earns or
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she earns and disposes of it as they see
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fit what's very interesting about this
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is that despite party change the parties
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have changed there are also deep veins
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of continuity and this deep vein of
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continuity shows that the fundamental
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core principle of the party's a pro
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market throw upward mobility free
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society which Lincoln championed that's
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what we conservatives in America are
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fighting for now now Lincoln named what
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he called the four horsemen he didn't
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say of the apocalypse but he meant of
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slavery the four bad guys of slavery and
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it's very important to pay attention to
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this because what Lincoln is showing is
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that these four guys are not southerners
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in fact only one of the four is a
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southerner Lincoln name's Roger tawny
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the author of the Dred Scott decision
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from Maryland Lincoln Council is a
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southerner and then we have Franklin
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Pierce the former president from New
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Hampshire northern Democrat and
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James Buchanan the sitting president
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from Pennsylvania northern Democrat and
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Stephen Douglas of Illinois northern
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Democrat now the reason this is really
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important is that right now there are
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massive statues of Douglas of Peirce of
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Buchanan all standing in their hometowns
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untouched by ante for black lives matter
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black lives matter and antia and the
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south knocking down statutes knock down
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robert e lee knock down the Confederate
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statue this Confederate Guard soldier
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was a bad guy first of all this
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Confederate soldier the nameless
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Confederate soldier which is the
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majority of the statues was typically a
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dirt poor farmer or laborer he didn't
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own a single slave and when asked why he
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was fighting in the Civil War his simple
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answer was because the Yankees are down
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here you want to make that guy the bad
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guy of American history if you do it's
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fake history you're a fake
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why because that's not the bad guy the
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bad guy were the conspirators in the
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north who worked with the plantation
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owners in the south to sustain slavery
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and Lincoln had their number but
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progressives have to hide the complicity
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of the northern Democrats because what
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they're doing is taking the crimes of
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the Democratic Party and foisting them
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on the south they're basically trying to
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hold the South accountable for what they
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did and Lincoln was on to them then and
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I have to say I'm kind of on to them now
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I now want to fast-forward from Lincoln
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and a couple of words I've said about
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slavery to fascism I want to come to the
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20th century moving us along the Swift
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course of history and I want to address
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a question that Trump's sort of kicked
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up when he said he was a nationalist and
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of course there was somebody on CNN
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saying how can you use the word
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nationalist it's like Hitler and Hitler
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in fact was a nationalist but so was my
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countrymen Gandhi and so was a Mandela
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in South Africa and so was Winston
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Churchill and so was de Gaulle and so
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was Abraham Lincoln and all the anti
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colonial leaders were nationalists so
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clearly there is more than one type of
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nationalism what is the type of
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nationalism that defined Hitler and by
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extension Mussolini and by extension all
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the fascist movements in Belgium in
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France in Germany
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in Italy in England and so on and the
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answer is there's only one thing that
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identified that type of nationalism and
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that was its marriage with socialism the
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essence of fascism is the marriage of
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nationalism and socialism and the reason
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that the Left can never admit this is at
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the moment they do their whole big lie
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blows up and national socialism is
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vividly exposed as a phenomenon of the
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left now I'm not just alleging this in
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some vague sense I actually in my book
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look at the founding fathers of fascism
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in numerous countries I'm going to take
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the simple example of France there was a
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powerful fascist movement in France when
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the Germans invaded France these people
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became the intellectual soul of the
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Vichy regime and these guys the founders
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of French fascism were all men of the
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left there is no exception to this rule
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jean le monde who was involved with the
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drive this case the so-called
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grandfather of French socialism one of
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the founders of French fascism Marcel da
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prominent socialists became the leader
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of the fascist movement in France
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Jacques Daurio was the head of the
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French Communist Party and he became a
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leading fascist Mussolini in Italy his
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chief advisor was the founder of Italian
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fascism a friend of Lenin and when
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Mussolini started the fascist movement
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in Italy he got a telegram of
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congratulations from lenin who
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recognized him as a fellow revolutionary
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of the left now why was National
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Socialism so leftist what was it trying
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to accomplish the basic idea of fascism
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was government control over the private
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economy and government control over the
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lives of citizens that's the meaning of
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fascism that's what it is that's what
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the Nazis were all about the National
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Socialist Party
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in my movie in my movie in my movie well
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we have some dr. Ford and put is the axe
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here let me ask you this question let me
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ask you guys this question well okay if
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you'll stop chatting I'll address your
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point
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here's something interesting where is
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dr. Ford you know this is really
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interesting when I noticed that when
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when when when when Roy hold on don't
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shout at me you'll have a chance ask
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questions when Roy Moore was attacked by
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all these women he but you pre oppressed
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me he did this he did that and suddenly
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when he's defeated they all knelt into
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air this is Karl Marx all that is solid
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melts into air suddenly the media hold
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on don't shout at me don't shout at me
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I'll be huh I know you came voluntarily
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did I ask you to come no don't shout at
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me I'm defending fascism Noah I'm
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exposing you as a fascist because
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because
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[Applause]
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do you rely up and I'll tell you how you
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ask me a question
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hold on are you familiar are you
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familiar with the black shirts in Italy
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or the brown shirts in Germany do you
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realize that they would go to campuses
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goom's and would stand in the back of
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the room and when somebody tried to make
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an intelligent presentation and answer
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questions they would shout them down
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yell at them try to intimidate them and
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count a success if they could get the
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event canceled and the speaker
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threatened but see the problem is
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sometimes you get speakers like me who
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are not scared of people like you we
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recognize your frauds I recognize I
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recognize that ultimately you are afraid
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of ideas you're not willing to engage
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with me yes you're afraid of ideas
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you're not afraid of flashes you think I
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pose a threat to you I'm an immigrant I
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came to America with nothing what threat
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to I posed to you I propose dangerous
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violator kill people who have I killed
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capitalism do you realize do you realize
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that Hitler's deadly opponent was
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capitalism if have you read the Nazi
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25-point platform let me give you a few
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themes from it state control of the
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banks do you support that no state
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control of healthcare use of what that
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state control of education do you
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support that No all right what I'm
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trying to get at is the fascist ideology
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is one that is distinctly under left
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what about you personally support it
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in fairness in fairness there's going to
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be plenty of time to engage you but let
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me just say this
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no movement that calls itself a national
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socialist movement is going to be on the
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right and the idea that the fascists are
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right-wing because they support racial
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superiority wait a minute the guy who
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showed the Ku Klux McKellen movie in the
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White House was Woodrow Wilson a
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progressive Democrat so progressivism
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was married to racism at the hip so
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don't pretend it was a right-wing
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phenomenon it wasn't now now let me let
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me continue because it is segues right
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into where I was before and that is I
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was talking about a scene in my movie a
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very a scene that I think if you didn't
25:53
know my work you would find kind of
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bewildering and that is you have a group
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of Nazis the top Nazis in 1935 who are
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making the Nuremberg Laws which make
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Jews into second-class citizens they
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involved segregation of Jews into
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ghettos outlawing intermarriage between
26:11
Jews and other Germans and confiscation
26:14
of Jewish property and these guys making
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the Nuremberg Laws interestingly you see
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them in the movie they have in their
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hands the Democratic laws of the Jim
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Crow South they have the American laws
26:27
made by the Democrats and they are
26:29
crossing out the word black and writing
26:31
in the word Jew I'm not saying that the
26:33
Nazis had similar laws to the Democrats
26:36
I'm saying they got it from the
26:37
Democrats they will indirectly influence
26:40
by the Democratic laws and they used
26:42
them as a model now you might ask Dinesh
26:47
[Applause]
26:53
the opposition retreats out of ideas no
26:57
problem
26:59
they can't argue this stuff it's because
27:03
they don't know anything but they have a
27:07
lot of heat and the combination of anger
27:10
and ignorance can only result in
27:14
outbursts of irritation or fleeing the
27:17
room in the intellect is suppressed by
27:20
this kind of unfortunate process and
27:22
it's the job of education to kind of
27:24
prevent it but unfortunately it's become
27:26
kind of widespread alright so now you
27:28
might say wait a minute
27:29
Dinesh you're showing a scene of Nazis
27:32
learning from Democrats and I have never
27:35
heard this in my life and I consider
27:36
myself an educated person and I've never
27:38
read a book about it and it's not in any
27:40
textbook in high school or in college
27:41
and I can see that's true so I asked the
27:45
question how is this possible where am I
27:47
getting it the answer is I'm getting it
27:49
from the whole body of historical
27:51
scholarship including the Yale legal
27:53
historian James Whitman and its recent
27:55
book Hitler's American model in which
27:58
Whitman has the transcripts of the
28:00
meeting and he lays it out chapter and
28:01
verse and he's familiar with my work and
28:03
he has never criticized me in public for
28:06
this here's the interesting thing with
28:07
Whitman he's a progressive he's on the
28:09
Left he doesn't want to put the blame on
28:12
the left even though he knows it belongs
28:14
there and so he hides this by switching
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Democrat through American notice
28:20
Hitler's American model Hitler got it
28:22
from America but these were democratic
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laws think about this this is the fact
28:27
that is left out of James Whitman's book
28:29
every segregation law in the American
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South from the 1880s to the 1950s was
28:35
passed by a Democratic legislature
28:37
signed by a Democratic governor enforced
28:39
by Democratic officials and there is no
28:41
exception to this rule once you plug in
28:45
that fact you realize that Hitler's
28:47
American model should be retitled
28:49
Hitler's democratic model now I mention
28:55
all this by the way because this is not
28:56
just history the reason we're talking
28:59
about history is because if we look
29:00
around objectively today I think we
29:03
would have to admit that the fascist
29:05
streak that we see in American politics
29:09
and I admit it's there but it's
29:11
predominantly on the Left who are the
29:15
people suppressing speech they come from
29:17
the left who are the people who use the
29:20
weapons of the state against their
29:21
political opponents they're on the Left
29:23
I'll give you an example from my own
29:25
infamous case and somebody mentioned it
29:27
earlier I go before the Justice
29:31
Department this is the team ultimately
29:37
headed by Obama of course but Eric
29:39
Holder and in New York City Preet
29:41
Bharara this fellow Indian guy of mine a
29:45
fellow of a very recognizable Indian
29:47
type if he watched the movie Slumdog
29:48
Millionaire he's he's he is one of the
29:51
ringleaders in that movie a waterboy
29:54
someone is willing to carry do work for
29:57
the bad guys and so they sit me down
29:59
they go Dinesh did you exceed the
30:01
campaign finance laws and I go well I
30:03
actually did I was trying to help a
30:04
friend of mine a Dartmouth friend of
30:06
mine I've known for 25 years I didn't
30:08
mean to do it but I did it and so I'll
30:10
take whatever penalty other people get
30:12
for doing the same thing and the US
30:14
government says to me no that's not our
30:17
idea at all we're gonna get you for bank
30:19
fraud and I go bank fraud they go yeah
30:22
cuz you you took your money out of the
30:24
bank and then I go wow and then they go
30:28
we're gonna get you for mail fraud I go
30:30
mail fraud they go yeah cuz you put your
30:32
check in the mail and it then occurred
30:35
to me that what was going on was that
30:37
the US government was using this
30:41
accordion of federal statutes to read
30:43
ascribe my offense in six different ways
30:45
attach a charge to each one and use laws
30:47
that were designed to get rid of Al
30:50
Capone and the Mafia and Isis laws of
30:53
surveillance laws of intimidation if you
30:56
can't get Capone on murder let's get him
30:58
on this technicality they were using
30:59
this against US citizens to go after
31:01
their political opponents and if that's
31:04
not fascism I don't know what is and I
31:07
saw it firsthand now
31:11
racism a very good question to ask is
31:14
where is the racism today where is the
31:17
racism today if the parties did not
31:19
switch sides as they manifestly did not
31:22
the proof of this by the way is you
31:25
simply I mean this is the beauty of
31:26
living today we all have a phone and the
31:30
left let's just take the Princeton
31:31
historian Kevin Cruz the racist
31:34
Dixiecrats all became Republicans
31:37
because of Richard Nixon's tricky
31:39
strategy tricky dick and all that all
31:43
right for our proof we make a list of
31:45
all the racist Dixiecrats and there they
31:47
are about 200 of them these are the
31:49
people who join the Dixiecrat party or
31:51
they voted against the Civil Rights Act
31:53
of 1964 and now we ask how many became
31:56
Republicans let's count and the correct
31:58
answer is to one in the house Albert
32:02
Watson one in the Senate Strom Thurmond
32:04
and all the other racist dixiecrats
32:07
lived and died and a lionized to this
32:09
day in the Democratic Party and there
32:11
are buildings right here in Washington
32:12
DC named after them so this notion that
32:15
the racist dicks de Grasse became
32:16
Republicans is an empirical falsehood
32:18
and a flat lie now where is the racism
32:24
today if people say to me are you
32:25
actually saying the Democratic Party is
32:27
the same as it was in 1830 no I'm not
32:29
saying that but I am saying that the
32:32
progressive left has faked the evidence
32:35
of racism and tried to pin the racist
32:38
tail on the Republican elephant by
32:41
claiming that the neo-nazis and the Ku
32:44
Klux Klan and the white nationalists are
32:46
all Trump supporters well what is the
32:51
proof for this remarkable statement has
32:54
anyone actually done a survey a poll
32:58
account provided any empirical data
33:02
whatsoever to situate the show I'm happy
33:05
to listen to everyone answer me this I
33:08
I like that kind of slaughterhouse
33:09
aspect of the Q&A; so say save it for
33:12
them but what I'm getting at here is
33:14
that there is no such empirical evidence
33:16
in existence the only proof for white
33:20
supremacists being Trump stars is the
33:21
images of charlottesville of white
33:24
nationalists wearing Trump hats and
33:26
since I smelled a rat I've actually done
33:29
an investigation of the leading white
33:30
nationalists - mmm and - a woman and if
33:34
you read my book you will see that every
33:36
single one of them has a deep history in
33:38
the left Jason Kessler the organizer of
33:41
both Charlottesville rallies longtime
33:43
Obama activist Occupy Wall Street guy
33:46
that's a fact and it's a fact known to
33:48
the media at the time but suppressed
33:50
number two the editor of the neo-nazi
33:53
website Andrew Anglin is a leftist and
33:55
environmentalist hates white people is
33:57
open about it that's a fact and ended in
34:00
the movie if you watch my movie I bring
34:02
in Richard Spencer the poster boy of
34:04
white supremacy and what ensues is an
34:06
eye-opening interview in which I ask him
34:08
simple questions that make it blindingly
34:11
obvious than he is on the far left who's
34:15
his favorite president they're all
34:17
Democrats what does he think of Reagan
34:18
he hates him what does he think of
34:20
national healthcare great idea
34:21
does he think our rights come from God
34:23
no where'd they come from they come from
34:25
the state and on and on it goes and so
34:27
you're viewing this and it suddenly
34:29
dawns on you that you have been
34:30
subjected to the fakest of fake news a
34:33
massive public relations con that
34:37
presents the white nationalist as
34:38
right-wing when to a man and out of
34:41
their own mouths they are all left-wing
34:44
now if they're not the racists what
34:49
usually when someone says the racism is
34:51
over there and they're trying to hide
34:53
something what they really mean is don't
34:55
look over here one of the things I want
34:58
to suggest I'll leave you with this and
34:59
open the door to questions is that the
35:02
Democratic Party has always been the
35:03
party of the plantation the plantation
35:06
defines the Democratic Party it always
35:08
has by the way the plantation does not
35:10
define the founding there were
35:12
plantations at the time of the founding
35:13
but not so many it was Eli Whitney's
35:18
invention of the cotton gin
35:20
that produced the mass that was in 1793
35:22
by the way that produced the massive
35:24
expansion of the cotton plantations the
35:26
cotton industry began to spread in the
35:28
American South in the nineteenth century
35:30
and the political party the Democratic
35:32
Party arose to defend advocate and
35:35
protect the plantation in the north and
35:37
the south now where is the plantation
35:40
today if you read the historian Kenneth
35:43
stampp in his book the peculiar
35:45
institution he says that the plantation
35:48
the old slave plantation was
35:49
characterized by five features there
35:52
lappa dated housing slave quarters
35:54
broken families his slavery was nowhere
35:57
legal in any slave State for the slaves
35:59
third no advancement no one gets ahead
36:02
for there's a high degree of violence to
36:05
hold the place together because slavery
36:07
of course is based on force and fifth a
36:10
pervasive atmosphere of nihilism and
36:13
despair and what I suggest that is that
36:17
today we find those exact same five
36:20
features in the black ghettos in the
36:24
Latino Barrios on the Native American
36:27
reservations we find them not just in
36:29
Oakland and Detroit and st. Louis we
36:31
find them in the Latino Barrios of South
36:34
Texas and LA we find them in the Pine
36:36
Ridge Reservation which I visited in
36:38
South Dakota and as you walk around and
36:41
you look around you see all the
36:43
essential features of the old slave
36:45
plantation and there they are
36:47
and it's one-party rule and the
36:49
Democrats have control these places for
36:51
decades and they never seem to change no
36:53
matter how much money is spent on them
36:54
there's dependency there's servitude
36:57
there's nihilism and that's those are
37:00
all features that were there
37:01
historically but it's the same party
37:03
that's doing it so I leave you with the
37:07
thought that a lot of what we call
37:10
history is in fact progressive history
37:13
we should not be so naive as young
37:16
scholars to think that history doesn't
37:18
come from a bias from a point of view I
37:21
have a point of view I'm an immigrant
37:23
and when I come to America I bring an
37:24
immigrant point of view in fact to be
37:27
honest with you a lot of progressive
37:28
history strikes me as uninteresting
37:30
because those are not to me
37:32
important questions to ask at all I'm
37:34
not interested in finding out whether or
37:36
not people are oppressed in American
37:37
society I see that all over the world
37:39
what I'm interested in is how does a
37:41
society take board people and make them
37:43
rich how does a society begin is one of
37:46
the poorest countries in the world as
37:48
America was in 1800 and become by 1900
37:51
the richest society in the world who
37:53
made that happen who thought of that
37:54
idea that's not in the history books
37:57
no one even discusses it fake history
38:00
and so I want to leave you with the idea
38:03
that we need to have a debate about
38:04
history figure out if I'm right or if
38:07
what you see on the History Channel is
38:09
right yeah if you type in fascism in
38:12
Wikipedia it's gonna say that fascism is
38:14
on the right why because the idiots are
38:16
all bad have been reading the same
38:18
history books that I'm criticizing so
38:21
that's what they're getting it you can't
38:22
take that as confirmation of the truth
38:25
because they're just lifting it from the
38:26
same source ultimately it's about debate
38:30
but debate can only occur in an
38:32
atmosphere of freedom my only objection
38:36
of the students who were yelling and
38:38
screaming a moment ago is they don't
38:39
like the atmosphere of intellectual
38:41
exchange it's threatening to them they
38:45
ultimately feel that they have a certain
38:46
moral right to Trump dissidents who
38:51
don't agree with them but who are
38:52
perfectly willing to hear them out as
38:54
they are not willing to hear me out and
38:56
I want to leave you with the thought
38:58
that you should be very intolerant of
39:01
that kind of intolerance
39:02
don't be suckers for it just says you
39:06
shouldn't be suckers for received wisdom
39:07
if you doubt anything I said today check
39:10
it out
39:11
look it up for yourself at the end of
39:15
the day it seems to me America as a
39:17
country Lincoln called it the last best
39:24
hope on earth and there's got to be
39:26
something very uniquely powerful about
39:28
it and powerfully good about it because
39:31
it remains today the same magnet for
39:33
immigrants that it was in Lincoln's day
39:35
whether we want that we can debate it
39:37
legal or illegal in of the bottom line
39:39
of it is lots of people want to come
39:40
here and this is in fact the clue that
39:44
tipped me
39:44
off to the idea that the multicultural
39:46
mantra that all cultures are equal and
39:49
no culture is better or worse superior
39:51
or inferior to any other which I heard a
39:53
Dartmouth a generation ago right away I
39:56
knew it was a lie because I thought to
39:57
myself if all cultures are equal
40:00
everybody would stay home why would you
40:03
get up and leave your family and your
40:06
friends and the whole world that you
40:07
know what I'm talking about refugees
40:09
we're talking about people who
40:10
voluntarily move from one culture to
40:12
another the only reason to do that is
40:14
because you have decisively voted with
40:16
your feet in the most powerful way
40:18
possible that this new society is better
40:20
than the one you came from and that's
40:23
why you're willing to bet your life
40:24
which is all that you have on that
40:26
decision that is ultimately the whiff of
40:30
freedom the whiff of freedom backed up
40:33
with knowledge that's what it ultimately
40:36
does to make us here in the university
40:40
context Americans and I urge you to
40:43
follow that path even though it requires
40:46
a certain element of bravery to do that
40:48
thank you very much
40:50
[Applause]
Is there today a more
talented, reasoned, and well grounded debater than Dinesh D'Souza? On a
level with William F. Buckley Jr, Daniel Webster, and Winston
Churchill? Every D'Souza video I watch leaves me pumped and weak
from adrenaline rush. So, when I say that this Nov. 7th 2018
appearance
at American University is terrific, even by those standards ... . YES!
You have to watch it. If for no other reason than to catalog the history
for later use.
When a group of Snowflakes stand, chanting in
unison during his monologue, D'Souza does not miss a beat. He
takes on the silly girl spokesthing
with aplomb. They walk out to cheers
from the audience, This, folks, is a 40 minute American history
lesson like they will never encounter (sadly) again.
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