Too often, reporters prefer narratives over the truth.
If you’re waiting for the mainstream media to apologize for ignoring Hunter Biden’s laptop or promoting the Russian collusion hoax, keep waiting.
That lets documentary filmmakers tell the stories that aren’t being told.
In the past, that’s given us Amanda Milius’ “The Plot Against the President,” which predated the Durham Report’s shocking expose on the Trump/Russia storyline. The 2021 documentary “Rush to Judgment” skewered the press for declaring the Covington Catholic High School kids guilty without having all the facts at their disposal.
This year uncorked three such films, documentaries that shed a harrowing light on corruption. These filmmakers picked up stories reporters wouldn’t touch, and the results proved explosive.
<h2>“The Essential Church” </h2>
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Grace Community Church took the COVID lockdowns on the chin, and the congregation refused to forgive and forget. The church put its grievances on screen via a powerful documentary that connected the past with the uncertain present: &#8220;<a href="https://essentialchurchmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Essential Church.</a>&#8220;
“Church” recalls similar situations when governments stopped citizens from worshiping, giving the film historical heft. Still, reliving the recent lockdown era proves chilling, especially since we’ve learned the measures had little positive impact and plenty of severe ramifications.
The core of the film follows Grace Community Church’s lawsuit against California’s pandemic measures. Head pastor John MacArthur’s fight is echoed north of the Border as two Canadian pastors fight similar battles against similar restrictions. 
This isn’t the first time a Christian community picked up a camera and told a story. In the past, that meant low-budget films with awkward performances and cringe-worthy plots.
“The Essential Church,” in comparison, is handsomely mounted and packs plenty of cinematic polish. The film’s spiritual component is profound, but you don’t have to be a person of faith to process the cruelty behind the lockdown measures or how politicians applied them unequally.
Bustling Black Lives Matter protests could proceed sans restrictions yet sitting before a pastor put everyone’s lives at risk. And they risked severe fines and even jail time for sharing the Holy Word with their flocks.
That may have gone unnoticed by the mainstream press, but the filmmakers behind “Church” couldn’t let it go.
<h2>“Police State”</h2>
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Meet the new Dinesh D’Souza.
The provocateur behind “2016: Obama’s America” and “Trump Card’ no longer nurtures his inner Michael Moore. The stakes are too high, and the evidence he summoned for his most recent films doesn’t require a radically partisan lens.
It’s all scary no matter your party affiliation.
His 2022 documentary “2000 Mules” raised questions about election integrity, complete with footage that should have sent shockwaves through government ranks. 
Now, with “<a href="https://policestatefilm.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police State</a>,” the immigrant asks if his beloved America is becoming a new form of dictatorship. Sound hyperbolic? You won’t say so after processing D’Souza’s compelling evidence.
Conservatives already know some, but not all, of the terrifying stories the pundit-turned-filmmaker shares. Mothers dubbed “domestic terrorists” for questioning their local school’s curricula. Senior citizens hunted down like criminals for simply standing around the Capitol on Jan. 6. Big Tech platforms teaming with the FBI to prevent citizens from flexing their First Amendment rights.
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Sadly, there are many more tales to be told, and “Police State” assembles them in a cold, calculating fashion. D’Souza admits he couldn’t tell his tale if America had a full-blown “Police State.” He suggests we’re running out of time to prevent that reality, and his case is convincing.
<h2>“The Fall Of Minneapolis”</h2>
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Journalist Liz Collin watched her city burn in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The Minnesota-based TV reporter had a secondary stake in the rancor. Her husband, Bob Kroll, served as the head of the local police union at the time.
That put a target on the couple, realized during a BLM protest that literally came to their front yard. Those gathered took turns <a href="https://patch.com/minnesota/stillwater/protesters-whack-piatas-wcco-reporter-liz-collins-bob-kroll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swatting piñatas dressed as Collin and Kroll</a>, an event featuring a local Democrat running for elected office.
Now, Collin is sharing her side of the Floyd aftermath with “<a href="https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fall of Minneapolis</a>,” streaming for free on Rumble.
Neither Collin nor a crush of talking heads raise their voices about what they call the false narratives that emerged following the black resident’s death.
The tone is relentlessly calm as Collin’s team assembles court documents, eyewitness testimony, and bodycam footage to correct the media’s record on Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and more.
We watch veteran police officers tear up as they recall their orders to abandon their precinct to raging protesters. The former peace officers watched their building go up in flames, lucky to escape with their lives. Their supervisors refused to grant them riot gear to protect them from the bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks hurled at them.
That’s only part of “Fall’s” story.
The film opens with a full body-cam reel leading up to Floyd’s death. We watch local police officers patiently try to put Floyd in their car after he tried to pass off fake money at a local shop. 
They beg and plead for him to obey to no avail, and seconds after Floyd crumples to the ground they summon EMS.
We also learn that Floyd’s initial autopsy results showed no physical damage to his neck, even though the media told us officer Derek Chauvin’s unorthodox police hold prevented the suspect from breathing.
There’s more, so much more, and the alleged corruption spreads to the media, local community organizers &#8230; even the FBI.
None of this would be available to the public without filmmakers eager to ask the tough questions and answer them to the best of their ability.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Three Documentaries That Shocked The Mainstream In 2023

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Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Moore have something in common: Both evoked Adolf Hitler in their recent films.
Moore did it, over and again, in his 2018 documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9,” a cartoonish assault on President Donald Trump.
D’Souza opens “<a href="https://policestatefilm.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police State</a>,” his latest docudrama, with images of der Fuhrer along with Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao.
Subtle.
Yet, while Moore strained to make any coherent connection to his target, D’Souza’s “Police State” quickly settles into a more credible series of allegations. And he has the headlines to back them up.
The combination of a two-tiered justice system, government-led censorship and an effort to muzzle &#8220;Ma and Pa&#8221; conservatives have America steering toward a “fledgling police state.”
D’Souza, a savvy marketer, knew adding the word “fledgling” would strip his film of its marketing pop. It’s the phrase he uses repeatedly in his new docudrama, a collision of staged reenactments and harrowing talking head interviews.
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The film starts fast, notwithstanding the roll call of 20th century monsters. D’Souza knows few, if any, liberals will watch his new film, but he still could have warmed up to the topics at hand.
He finds a bipartisan entry point by noting how President George W. Bush’s War on Terror tactics embraced after 9/11 eventually turned away from global actors to the home front. And we didn’t see it coming.
Some of “Police State” will feel familiar to conservatives who aggressively read news outlets outside the warped mainstream. Republicans are keenly aware of social media giants blocking inconvenient opinions, no matter how accurate they turn out to be.
Or how Hunter Biden remains free and clear (for now) while former President Donald Trump faces a crush of serious indictments.
Perhaps that’s why the filmmaker recruited actor Nick Searcy to play the literal face of FBI corruption. The “Justified” alum anchors the dramatic recreations, playing an FBI boss overseeing the smackdown on Joe and Jane Sixpack.
Churchgoers. January 6th protesters. Moms who aren’t keen on their children reading dirty books at school.
Ironically, Searcy’s 2022 film “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-film-capitol-punishment-counters-medias-jan-6-insurrection-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Punishment”</a> offers a companion piece to “Police State.” That film showed actual footage of FBI agents barging into suspects’ homes, guns drawn as if they were taking in a terrorist cell, not a beleaguered Trump fanatic.
“Police State” features commentary from Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Rand Paul and pundit Dan Bongino, the latter offering a dash of the theatrical. Some of D’Souza’s questions fall into the “leading” category, but the answers leave a mark.
And yet the film hardly needs extra razzle or dazzle. The facts laid out are horrifying enough.
Consider:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The January 6th protestor who hung himself before an over-the-top charge against him could be thrown out of court, according to his grieving aunt.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A concerned mother whose attempts to speak her mind about her children’s school curriculum led to FBI agents breaking into her home.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A senior citizen, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/fbi-tears-new-yorkers-life-into-shreds-devine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Bolanos</a>, gets the cancellation treatment when the local media reports on his microscopic ties to the Jan. 6 protests. That was easy compared to how the FBI treated the pillar of his community.</li>
</ul>
Whistleblowers power much of the narrative. 
Rogue FBI agents Kyle Seraphin and Steve Friend describe the incentives employed to round up real and imagined domestic terrorists. Former Big Tech workers share how some of the most influential platforms in our culture censor opinions considered unwelcome. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Files, anyone?</a>
Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rodas-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes the atrocities</a> tied to President Joe Biden’s open border policies, including children being sex trafficked at will.
“Police State” understands that facts and figures only take a project like this so far. It’s why we meet folks like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-activist-prosecuted-by-biden-administration-running-for-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life activist Mark Houck</a> who nearly spent a very long time in jail for pushing an abortion clinic worker after the man verbally harassed his son.
Houck volunteered to turn himself in to the authorities. The authorities opted to raid his home instead, snatching him away from his wife and seven horrified children as if he were a drug cartel kingpin.
Previous D’Souza films delivered the facts and agitprop, even for those who lean to the Right. The pundit and author’s film canon delivers furious broadsides against the Left.
Last year’s “2000 Mules,” which alleged an intricate pattern of voter fraud helped sway the 2020 presidential election, found a subdued D’Souza raising alarming questions about voting integrity.
“Police State” offers a blend of the D’Souza old and newer style. There’s a level of showmanship that’s unmistakable, combined with testimony from people who have suffered at the government’s hands.
D’Souza’s visual style &#8211; shaky camera work combined with sly graphics &#8211; underlines the themes in play. That, plus the bleak color canvas, gives the story a dystopian appeal. The recreations have a sharper feel than past D’Souza efforts, his filmmaking chops growing over time.
The docudrama wraps on an optimistic note, an odd tonal choice given what preceded it.
It’s a shame D’Souza’s conservative brand will keep most progressive viewers far away from “Police State.” Even if he toned down his partisan framing they wouldn’t give his film a fair shake. 
Americans from both parties need to see what’s happening to America, and why even a fledgling police state won’t stop with just one party.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘Police State’ Brings Dystopian America Into Focus

Dinesh D'Souza's ‘Police State’ Brings Dystopian America Into Focus

Biden Administration

Dan Bongino

Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza announced on Twitter that his new movie, “2000 Mules,” will be screened today at the EU in Brussels. 
“Remarkable! “2000 Mules” is being screened today at the EU in Brussels, followed by a discussion of the worldwide problem of election fraud,” the 61-year-old political commentator <a href="https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1526948209075134464?s=20&amp;t=LhgAHRZHNPQD8ncq2hDnpw">shared</a> with his more than two million Twitter followers.
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Remarkable! “2000 Mules” is being screened today at the EU in Brussels, followed by a discussion of the worldwide problem of election fraud <a href="https://t.co/81Bq1R310w">https://t.co/81Bq1R310w</a>
&mdash; Dinesh D&#39;Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href="https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1526948209075134464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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He was retweeting Dutch politician Thierry Baudet’s post, which <a href="https://twitter.com/thierrybaudet/status/1526826267433218050">said</a>, &#8220;Today, @fvdemocratie organizes a screening in the @Europarl_EN (Brussels) of @DineshDSouza’s groundbreaking documentary on the 2020 US Presidential election fraud. Afterwards, I will participate in a panel discussion with #FVD MEP @MJRLdeGraaff and #AFD MEP @Joachim_Kuhs.”
D&#8217;Souza also retweeted the announcement that “2000 Mules” would be returning to theaters this weekend rather than limiting the film to special event screenings, which will make the tickets cheaper. 
“2000 Mules” is a film alleging voter fraud that’s been making headlines for weeks. The Daily Wire originally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dinesh-dsouzas-2000-mules-movie-alleging-voter-fraud-makes-1-million-on-streaming-sites">reported</a> that the documentary made more than $1 million on streaming sites Rumble and its subscription-based platform, Locals, in the first weekend post-release. 
D’Souza said the project was inspired by True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who he claims gained access to a “treasure trove of cellphone data, this is called cellphone “geotracking,” which they believed proved “election fraud.” 
The title refers to 2,000 people who allegedly made dozens of trips each to drop boxes to deposit mail-in ballots, which were targeted to swing states including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Phillips interviewed an informant from Yuma County, Arizona, who claimed “mules” were paid based on the quantity of ballots they stuffed in drop boxes. Previously, the Department of Homeland Security had assured the public that the last presidential election as &#8220;the most secure in American history,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/pro-trump-sheriffs-ludicrous-voting-probe-denounced-private-investigators-question-clerks-1610743">Newsweek</a>. 
“I would get a call to find out how many ballots were brought in and if they were already pre-filled out first,” the informant said. The person kept their identity obscured for the movie.
The film has received both high praise and extreme criticism, mostly divided on party lines. DeSouza shot back at critic Amanda Carpenter, who called “2000 Mules” a &#8220;performance piece&#8221; and “hilarious mockumentary.” She said it’s “an investigative documentary in roughly the same way Reno 911 was a hard-hitting look at real-life police work.&#8221;
The filmmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1526534504462045184?s=20&amp;t=6JqsYd1izi-emfbbgM-yHw">shot back</a>, &#8220;Ball State grad @amandacarpenter offers a good lesson in the limitations of studying film criticism at a third-rate university.&#8221;
The film has a 7.2/10 <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18924506/">rating</a> on IMDb.

Dinesh D’souza at the Democratic Party at CPAC

‘Remarkable!’: Dinesh D’Souza Announces ‘2000 Mules’ Screening At EU In Brussels

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Filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s movie alleging voter fraud in the 2020 election, &#8220;2000 Mules,&#8221; has made more than $1 million on streaming sites Rumble and its subscription-based platform, Locals in the first weekend out.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-new-socialism-with-dinesh-d-souza">conservative political commentator&#8217;s</a> latest film hit the streaming site at noon on Saturday, and after 12 hours it had grossed &#8220;more than one million dollars&#8221; on Rumble and Locals, making the sales &#8220;good enough&#8221; to put the film in the &#8220;estimated box office top ten for the weekend of May 6th to May 8th,&#8221; according to PRNewswire.com. The movie also played on a limited basis in selected theaters on May 2 and May 4, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-2000-mules-film-election-fraud-dsouza-rittenhouse-1703680">reported</a> Newsweek.
&#8220;The success of &#8216;2000 Mules&#8217; on Rumble is a great sign for creators who do not want to be silenced or censored for their speech,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prageru-what-is-identity-socialism">D&#8217;Souza</a> told the outlet.
&#8220;Supporting creative independence is core to our values, and we are thrilled to offer creators a new way to distribute and sell movies independently,&#8221; Locals President Assaf Lev told the outlet.
<a href="https://rumble.com/embed/v10rzll/?pub=kqd4p">D&#8217;Souza said</a> the idea for the film came from <a href="https://rumble.com/embed/v10rzll/?pub=kqd4p">True the Vote&#8217;s</a> Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who he said got a hold of a &#8220;treasure trove of cellphone data, this is called cellphone &#8220;geotracking,&#8221; which they believed proved &#8220;election fraud.&#8221; The two purport to show 2,000 people who allegedly made dozens of trips each to multiple drop boxes where they deposited mail-in ballots in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In the film, Phillips interviews an informant from Yuma County, Arizona, who alleged &#8220;mules&#8221; were paid based on the quantity of ballots they stuffed in drop boxes.
“I would get a call to find out how many ballots were brought in and if they were already pre-filled out first,” the informant, whose face was obscured and voice altered.
The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-technology-health-arizona-e1b49d2311bf900f44fa5c6dac406762">Associated Press</a> said the film used &#8220;flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage&#8221; to cast doubt on the 2020 election. It explained why it came to this conclusion:
The film focuses on &#8220;ballot harvesting,&#8221; which is a term for &#8220;dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself.&#8221; The AP noted that the practice is &#8220;legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on.&#8221;
D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s films have generated controversy in the past. His 2012 documentary, &#8220;2016: Obama&#8217;s America,&#8221; was based on his book, &#8220;The Roots of Obama&#8217;s Rage,&#8221; and grossed $33 million.More recently, he released &#8220;Trump Card&#8221; in 2020, which explored corruption in the Democratic Party.

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Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’ Movie, Alleging Voter Fraud, Makes $1 Million On Streaming Sites

Dinesh D'Souza '2000 Mules' Movie, Alleging Voter Fraud, Makes $1 Million

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In a new <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-identity-socialism/">video</a> from Prager University, Dinesh D’Souza announces that “there’s a new socialism in town,” one that he calls “identity socialism.”
“The old socialism, the kind Karl Marx dreamed up, was all about the working class, the sort of blue-collar worker who, ironically, voted for President Trump,” explains D’Souza. “But today’s socialist couldn’t care less about the guy in the hardhat. He had his chance at revolution and blew it. Today’s socialist is all about race, gender and transgender rights.  Class is an afterthought.”
“To understand this is to understand the Left’s takeover of the college campus and all the ills that takeover has spawned: from MeToo to Black Lives Matter to girls competing against biological boys,” D’Souza continues.
“We all live on campus now,” says D’Souza, quoting liberal writer <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/we-all-live-on-campus-now.html">Andrew Sullivan</a>. &#8220;Campus culture has now metastasized into the culture of the whole society,” he states.
Identity socialism is &#8220;first and foremost about division,” dividing along more than just class, such as along racial, gender, and gender identity lines,&#8221; says D&#8217;Souza. &#8220;Blacks and Latinos are in, whites are out. Women are in, men are out. Gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgenders are in; heterosexuals are out. Illegals are in, native-born citizens are out.”
So where did identity socialism come from? “Meet Herbert Marcuse,” D’Souza states. “Born in Berlin in 1898, Marcuse fled Germany at the dawn of the Nazi era. After stints at Columbia, Harvard and Brandeis, Marcuse moved to California, where he joined the University of California at San Diego in 1965.”
Rather than the “paradise” of Southern California softening Marcuse’s disdain for capitalism, D’Souza explains that “the more Marcuse prospered, the more he wanted to bring the system down.”
“He had a problem, however,” D’Souza continues. “A big one. Socialism didn’t work in America. Life was too good. The working class in the US didn’t aspire to overturn the existing order, they aspired to own a home. How could you foment revolution without revolutionaries? Classic Marxism had no answer for this.”
However, Marcuse had the answer, almost a hundred years after Marx: <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/#SpeLibGreRefNewSen">college students</a>. “They would be the recruits for what he termed the Great Refusal — the repudiation and overthrow of free market capitalism.” D’Souza says, adding that the “conditions were perfect.” After all, the college students at the time “were already living in what was in-effect a socialist commune,” who found themselves “restless and bored,” rather than grateful for the opportunity to study and learn. They were also searching for “meaning.”
“Of course, as with all successful social movements, timing was critical,” D’Souza explains. “Here Marcuse was very fortunate.” D’Souza reminds viewers that “the 60s was the decade of the Vietnam War,” and that “students faced the prospect of being drafted,” inspiring “selfish reasons to oppose the conflict.”
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“Marcuse and his acolytes turned this selfishness into righteousness by teaching the students that they weren’t draft-dodgers; they were noble resisters who were part of a global struggle for social justice,” says D’Souza. “Marcuse portrayed Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong as a kind of Third World proletariat, fighting to free themselves from American Imperialism. This represented a transposition of Marxist categories. The new working class were the Vietnamese ‘freedom fighters.’ The evil capitalists were American soldiers serving on behalf of the American government.”
In addition to the students, Marcuse also found <a href="https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Socialism-Behind-Evil/dp/1250163781">other groups to target</a>. “The first was the Black Power movement, which was a militant adjunct to the civil rights movement,” D’Souza states. “The beauty of this group, from Marcuse’s point of view, was that, unlike white students, its members wouldn’t have to be instructed in the art of grievance; blacks had grievances that dated back centuries.” Race replaced class, with “blacks” becoming the working class and “whites” the capitalist class. 
“Another emerging source of disgruntlement was the feminists,” D’Souza continues. “Marcuse recognized they too could be taught to see themselves as an oppressed class. This of course would require a further Marxist transposition: ‘women’ would now be viewed as the working class and “men” the capitalist class; the class category would now be shifted to gender.”
Knowing that this would take time, Marcuse trusted that “soon enough, the radical students would be the radical professors teaching identity socialism to a fresh crop of impressionable recruits.”
“Over time, Marcuse believed, the university could produce a new type of culture, and that culture would then spill into the larger society to infect primary education, the news media and entertainment. Even big business, the hated capitalist class, itself, would succumb,” D’Souza concludes. “He was right. Identity socialism has arrived.”
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PragerU: What Is Identity Socialism?

Identity Politics

Marxism

Prager University

Socialism

It’s no secret that conservatives are losing to progressives in the pop culture footrace. Think the classic “Tortoise and the Hare” story just after the starter’s pistol fires. Conservatives are the tortoise in this example, of course.
The future looks grim, despite efforts by Nick Searcy and Antonio Sabato, Jr. to jump-start right-leaning film studios. The documentary genre, however, offers a glimmer of hope.
For years, right-leaning filmmakers cranked out documentaries, often struggling to compete with their deeper-pocketed peers. Eight years ago, the shocking success of “2016: Obama’s America” changed that, offering robust box office results and solid production values. Others then followed, often courtesy of “2016’s” unlikely star, Dinesh D’Souza.
Thanks to new digital platforms, inexpensive technology, and conservatives finally realizing the power of visual media, the landscape is now different. Last year’s “No Safe Spaces,” paying close attention to the finer details, delivered a cautionary tale that came true all too quickly. 
Production values. Visual appeal. Storytelling snap. And it’s only the beginning. Here’s a list of recent or soon-to-be-released documentaries that speak to a right-of-center perspective.
1. “What Killed Michael Brown?” (Oct. 16)
The film’s title alone is provocative, and the vantage point similarly throws sharp elbows. Author Shelby Steele narrates this withering look at how American culture turned the death of a Missouri black man into a nationwide scandal, bending the truth beyond recognition in the process.
The author’s son, filmmaker Eli Steele of “How Jack Became Black” fame, directs this timely look at how race relations, power, and media malfeasance can create a tragic narrative.
That trend repeated itself six years later with the death of George Floyd, which the film ties into the larger narrative about black victimhood and identity politics.
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2. “The Plot Against the President” (Oct. 1)
If the name Amanda Milius sounds familiar, it should. She’s the daughter of maverick filmmaker John Milius, the right-leaning auteur who wrote “Apocalypse Now” and brought “Red Dawn” to the big screen.
“The Plot Against The President,” based on the book of the same name by Lee Smith, captures the “Deep State’s” effort to upend Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s an ambitious first feature for any director, but Milius grew up on movie sets and studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California before segueing to a career inside the Beltway. Now, she’s back behind a camera for a film sure to ruffle feathers.
The film arrives mere days after “The Comey Rule,” the Showtime miniseries based on the now-discredited Russian Collusion narrative.
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3. “America’s Forgotten” (Oct. 16)
This sudden entry, call it the right’s October Surprise, may be the most subversive of them all.
Left-leaning filmmaker Namrata Singh Gujral delivers a movie so explosive the film’s cast worked without recognition for fear of reprisal. Is that the truth, or simply a killer marketing gimmick? Given our age of cancel culture, anything is possible.
The documentary, on paper, could be revolutionary. At a time when the majority of Hollywood stories <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/open-borders-hollywood-immigration/">favor open border policies</a>, “<a href="https://www.uniglobeentertainment.com/americas-forgotten">America’s Forgotten</a>” suggests the folly of the immigration status quo.
The film’s tag line hints at the film’s content: “A broken immigration system leaves a slew of victims in its rudderless wake.”
Here’s one example: The film shows all of the Democratic presidential hopefuls vowing to let illegal immigration flourish, followed by a clip of a coyote showing that very clip to coax Mexicans to illegally cross the border.
Need another? How about heartbreaking stories of people killed by illegal immigrants, a narrative the mainstream media won’t touch?
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4. “Trump Card” (Oct. 9)
It wouldn’t be a political season without a button-pushing film from D’Souza. His latest, “Trump Card,” exposes the modern Democratic party&#8217;s socialist agenda.
D’Souza follows a similar formula to past hits like “Hillary’s America” and “Death of a Nation.” His docudrama approach, with a dash of Michael Moore, finds the author/filmmaker using his personal biography to shed light on the modern political scene.
His socialist critiques couldn’t come at a more critical time.
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5. “Man in the Arena”
Hollywood took not one, not two, but three whacks at Fox News via its founder, Roger Ailes: “Bombshell,” “The Loudest Voice” and “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes.”
“Arena” offers a more positive perspective, and one which adds context often missing from Ailes’ cinematic story. The documentary examines Ailes’ formative years, his alliances with key Republican figures, and the dawn of his greatest achievement, Fox News.
The filmmaking here is first rate, another sign that liberal documentarians don’t have a monopoly on the genre. The documentary soft pedals the severity of the sexual abuse allegations against the late Ailes, but otherwise it’s a vital, necessary documentary buoyed by narration from Jon Voight.
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6. “Uncle Tom”
Larry Elder may be the last person you want to square off against in a debate. Now, the syndicated talker is turning his agile mind to the documentary format, with startling results.
“Uncle Tom” lets black conservatives share the ugly names they’re called for loving smaller government and greater freedoms. That’s just the introductory material. The meat of the story is getting to know this group of brave, savvy conservatives who just happen to be black.
The film also admonishes the Republican party for not trying harder to reach out to black America &#8212; a hard position to deny.
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7. “Bad Decision: The Joe Biden Story” 
Veteran film producer Jason Killian Meath examines Biden’s litany of lousy decisions. He’s been famously called “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades” by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/13/gates_stands_by_statement_that_biden_has_been_wrong_on_nearly_every_major_foreign_policy_question.html">President Obama’s defense secretary Robert Gates.</a>
“Bad Decisions” digs deeper, looking into Biden’s shady Ukraine and China dealings, as well as the wealth he accumulated along the way.
The documentary, available on Newsmax, also explores how the former moderate aligned himself with his party’s more radical elements.
Meath’s resume, which includes “Citizen Carly,” “The Surge: The Untold Story,” and “Rocky Mountain Heist” make him an elder statesman, of sorts, within the conservative documentary field.
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8. “Chaos by the Bay: The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco”
Writer-turned-filmmaker Christopher F. Rufo shared his withering, 10-minute short on San Francisco’s public decline via YouTube. The mini-doc, which generated more than 200,000 views in less than two months, indicts city officials for letting the homelessness in San Francisco spiral out of control.
Astute news readers know all about the San Francisco “poop” maps and other acute signs of societal unrest. “Chaos” looks beyond those frightening headlines, letting the facts paint a disturbing picture media outlets tip toe around.
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9. “Denver in Decay”
Colorado talk show host and filmmaker Steffan Tubbs leaned on crowdfunding to bring this feisty film to life, drawing more than 67,000 YouTube views in roughly a week. The documentary’s bigger success is rooted in capturing both the intractable homeless problem in the Mile High City along with the violent protests following George Floyd’s death.
Those two toxic trends joined forces to leave the beautiful city a shadow of its former self. Tubbs has the political receipts to show why.
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Adam Carolla

TOTO: 9 New Hard-Hitting Conservative Documentaries You Must Watch

Dennis Prager

Hollywood

Larry Elder

As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Joseph Curl noted Sunday, Michael Moore&#8217;s latest anti-Republican president film, &#8220;Fahrenheit 11/9,&#8221; went &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36217/flames-michael-moores-new-anti-trump-movie-joseph-curl">up in flames</a>,&#8221; its box office receipts falling well below expectations and mustering less than 15% of the revenues of its blockbuster prequel, the George W. Bush take-down, &#8220;Fahrenheit 9/11.&#8221; This big disappointment comes despite left-wing critics overwhelmingly hyping the film.
Though it was expected to take in as much as $8 million, Moore&#8217;s &#8220;Fahrenheit 11/9&#8221; managed just <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&amp;id=fahrenheit119.htm">$3.1 million</a> over the course of its opening weekend. The film opened in 1,719 theaters, making its per-theater take just $1,804.
Moore&#8217;s film should have been helped by its strong performance among critics, which gave it a 77% &#8220;certified fresh&#8221; on <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fahrenheit_119/">Rotten Tomatoes</a>. But the film&#8217;s audience had a less enthusiastic response, with only 57% saying they liked it.
So how did Moore&#8217;s critics-lauded anti-Trump film perform in comparison to its much-criticized counterpart, &#8220;Death of a Nation,&#8221; by conservative documentarian Dinesh D&#8217;Souza? Despite having all that critical help, Moore barely managed to beat out his competition on the right.
D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s pro-Trump &#8220;Death of a Nation&#8221; was crushed by critics, who gave it a &#8212; wait for it &#8212; <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_of_a_nation">0%</a> on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience, however, overwhelmingly liked it to the tune of 89% on the review site.
The result: despite critics burying the film, &#8220;Death of a Nation&#8221; managed to bring in just a little less than Moore&#8217;s latest docu, earning <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&amp;id=deathofanation.htm">$2,356,522</a> in its opening weekend (Aug 2-5). D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s film only opened in 1,005 theaters, making its per-theater average $2,345 &#8212; over $500 better per theater than Moore&#8217;s film.
No wonder Variety finds itself explaining &#8220;<a href="https://variety.com/2018/film/columns/how-michael-moore-lost-his-audience-fahrenheit-11-9-1202953813/">How Michael Moore Lost His Audience</a>.&#8221; Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the painfully honest piece:
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&#8220;Fahrenheit 11/9,&#8221; his scathing riff on the administration of Donald J. Trump, will be lucky to gross one-tenth of what &#8220;Fahrenheit 9/11&#8221; did. That&#8217;s more than just a staggering comedown. It symbolizes a couple of things at once: how different the two eras are, but also how Michael Moore&#8217;s audience &#8212; there&#8217;s no other way to put it &#8212; has gradually drifted away. It symbolizes that Moore is no longer defining the dialogue. A Trump-era conservative would probably say, &#8220;It&#8217;s about time! Michael Moore has lied so much that it&#8217;s all finally caught up with him.&#8221; A Trump-era liberal would probably say, &#8220;I still agree with him, but I&#8217;ve seen enough Michael Moore movies. I know his message already.&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32651/michael-moores-july-4th-tweet-inspires-wrong-kind-james-barrett">Michael Moore&#8217;s July 4th Tweet Inspires Wrong Kind Of &#8216;Resistance&#8217; Online</a>

DOCU DEATH MATCH: Moore’s Critics-Hyped Trump Take-Down Vs. D’Souza’s Panned Pro-Trump Film

Donald Trump

George W. Bush

Michael Moore

In today&#8217;s episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/34879/ep-205-are-you-not-entertained" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Michael Knowles Show</a>, Michael explains why campaign finance laws are worthless.
&#8220;More or less than that, but if there&#8217;s a limit, let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s a federal limit of $5,000, you can spend on a candidate. Those candidates&#8217; backers are still going to spend money on them. They&#8217;re just gonna find other ways to spend it. They&#8217;re gonna spend it in super PACs. That&#8217;s been one consequence of recent years,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;They&#8217;re gonna spend it in little backchannels. They&#8217;re gonna use straw donations. They&#8217;re gonna have family members donate money, even though it&#8217;s really just their own personal money. This is how they got Dinesh D&#8217;Souza.&#8221;
D&#8217;Souza, Knowles went on to say, had to go to jail with violent criminals because he gave too much money to his friend&#8217;s campaign &#8212; and the Leftist government wanted to take him down.
&#8220;So, I think those laws, in general, are ridiculous. That said, they are the laws. So, it&#8217;s very easy for prosecutors to get you on campaign finance the laws,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;The laws are very obscure and if you violate them in any way, they can really nail you.&#8221;
Video and transcript below:
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Paul Manafort found guilty for what?
Tax fraud, bank fraud in Virginia. Tax fraud and bank fraud.
And what the prosecution kept bringing up is all his nice suits and he spent money frivolously and whatever. That&#8217;s what they got him on; tax fraud and bank fraud. Minutes later Michael Cohen. What&#8217;s he found guilty of or what does he admit guilt to? Tax fraud, bank fraud, and campaign finance. Campaign finance violations.
So, two of the three the exact same thing as Paul Manafort: Tax fraud, bank fraud. Now consider how the media are treating these two guys, because they pled guilty to basically the same things. They were found guilty and pled guilty to basically the same things. Cohen actually pled guilty to another crime, which is campaign finance violations.
How do they treat them? Manafort is a vicious horrible monster. Cohen, all of a sudden people are getting a strange new respect for Michael Cohen, aren&#8217;t they?
He is free. He is liberated. He&#8217;s gonna take down the president.
No, he&#8217;s a crook. He&#8217;s a crook. If Manafort&#8217;s a crook, he&#8217;s a crook.
The difference is that the left thinks that Cohen&#8217;s testimony is going to hurt Trump and Manafort&#8217;s isn&#8217;t because Manafort took it like a man and Michael Cohen is a dirty little rat, but we&#8217;ll see. We&#8217;ll see what effect that has.
So okay, what did Cohen plead guilty to? Cohen pled guilty to tax fraud, five counts of it. Between 2012 and 2016, he made false statements to a bank a couple of years ago. Unlawful campaign contribution in 2016. Excessive campaign contribution 2016, and that&#8217;s what the media are focusing on.
Before we get into the specifics too much on these guys, I do want to point out campaign finance laws are mostly nonsense and anti-constitutional. These are laws that say you can only contribute so much to a candidate. You can only spend money this way. You can only spend money that way. Those laws limit your political speech. They limit your freedom of speech.
Money is speech in politics. The poster that you&#8217;re holding up in politics is a political expression. It&#8217;s a manifestation of your free speech and that poster ain&#8217;t free. It costs money to buy the markers and to buy the poster board and to hold it up. There it costs money, it costs time. Same thing with campaign commercials. Same thing with flyers. Same thing with a website. Same thing with busses. The same thing with all of that.
This political speech costs money because we live in a real world and campaigns are tangible things. Campaign finance laws are mostly nonsense, mostly arbitrary. Many of them have been struck down by the Supreme Court. The-McCain Feingold campaign finance law was famously struck down in the Citizens United decision and it doesn&#8217;t make any sense to have these laws because people are gonna spend money on politics.
Big politics attracts big money. Surprisingly not as much money as you would think. You&#8217;d consider &#8211; you&#8217;d think these presidential campaigns are so consequential they&#8217;d cost 5 billion to 7 billion dollars. No way. More or less than that, but if there&#8217;s a limit, let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s a federal limit of $5,000, you can spend on a candidate. Those candidates&#8217; backers are still going to spend money on them. They&#8217;re just gonna find other ways to spend it. They&#8217;re gonna spend it in super PACs. That&#8217;s been one consequence of recent years. They&#8217;re gonna spend it in little backchannels. They&#8217;re gonna use straw donations. They&#8217;re gonna have family members donate money, even though it&#8217;s really just their own personal money. This is how they got Dinesh D&#8217;Souza.
Dinesh D&#8217;Souza had to go to the slammer and hang out with murderers and rapists because he funneled some money to his friend Wendy Long, who was never going to win a race anyway.
So, I think those laws, in general, are ridiculous. That said, they are the laws. So, it&#8217;s very easy for prosecutors to get you on campaign finance the laws. The laws are very obscure and if you violate them in any way, they can really nail you.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/show/michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watch more of The Michael Knowles Show here</a>

What’s The Point Of Campaign Finance Laws?

Michael Cohen

Paul Manafort

&#8220;Death of a Nation,&#8221; the latest film from Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, makes some extreme claims that will surely ruffle more than a few feathers on both the Left and the Right: President Trump is the new Abraham Lincoln and the Democratic Party was once too racist even by Nazi standards.
In a clip obtained exclusively by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dinesh-dsouzas-new-film-claims-democrats-racist-nazis-clip-1129938">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, one scene in &#8220;Death of a Nation&#8221; explores how Nazis should classify Jews in 1930&#8217;s Germany. Given that American eugenicists provided one of the means by which the Nazis perpetrated their atrocities, Germans looked to the United States for how to implement their racial policies. One policy, in particular, was the &#8220;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule">one-drop rule</a>,&#8221; which conferred inferiority onto anyone who had so much as a fraction of non-white genetics in their ancestry. Such a policy, D&#8217;Souza says, even the Nazis considered indecent.
&#8220;How does the American identify the Negro?&#8221; asks one Nazi in the clip.
&#8220;One drop rule. Any discernible black ancestry makes one count as black,&#8221; says another.
&#8220;Even if someone acts white, they could still be counted as black?&#8221; a third Nazi asks.
At that point, D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s narrative voice interjects to say: &#8220;As for the Democratic one-drop rule, incredibly the Nazis found it too racist even for them.&#8221;
D&#8217;Souza has cited the book &#8220;<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10925.html">Hitler&#8217;s American Model</a>&#8221; by Yale scholar James Whitman as his source for the incredibly shocking claim.
&#8220;The basic idea that the Nazis got the Nuremberg laws from America is not original with Whitman, but he fleshes it out in more detail than anyone had previously, Whitman is a progressive and he downplays the Democratic party&#8217;s role, although he does not deny it,&#8221; says D&#8217;Souza.
&#8220;The meeting we dramatize in the film occurred on June 5, 1934, shortly after Hitler&#8217;s ascent to power,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Present was a young justice ministry lawyer named Heinrich Krieger, who had studied in Arkansas and had done research into American race law.&#8221;
Another source, D&#8217;Souza claims, is the book &#8220;<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10602.html">Racism</a>&#8221; by George Fredrickson.
&#8220;Krieger knew and the Nazis knew what most American textbooks suppress &#8212; namely that every segregation law in the American South was passed by a Democratic legislature, signed by a Democratic governor and enforced by Democratic officials,&#8221; says D&#8217;Souza.
The film also draws parallels between President Trump and Abraham Lincoln, as evidenced by the film&#8217;s trailer and poster, which photoshops the two president&#8217;s faces together into a cohesive entity:
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&#8216;The X-Files&#8217; infamous tagline &#8216;The Truth is Out There&#8217; rings even more true for D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s latest flick. <a href="https://t.co/dOvHbSTQzr">https://t.co/dOvHbSTQzr</a>
&#8212; Western Journal (@WestJournalism) <a href="https://twitter.com/WestJournalism/status/1023284448547110913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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After pleading guilty in 2014 to an illegal campaign finance contribution by reimbursing two associates who had each given $10,000 to the 2012 senate campaign of Republican Wendy Long, D&#8217;Souza was sentenced to five years probation and eight months living in a &#8220;community confinement center.&#8221; D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s defense claimed that he was unfairly prosecuted for his political beliefs, a sentiment shared by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. The outcry culminated in President Trump announcing this past May that D&#8217;Souza had been treated &#8220;unfairly&#8221; and pledged to pardon him.
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Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D&#8217;Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1002177521599860736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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D’Souza’s New Film Claims Dems Too Racist For Nazis, Compares Trump To Abe Lincoln

Democratic Party

Nazis

A spokeswoman for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-attorney-general-state-law-trump-pardon-2018-4">indicated</a> that the governor &#8220;believes that the federal legal system should not provide a basis for any wrong doers to escape justice.&#8221;
Placing the statement&#8217;s incredulity aside &#8212; the governor is no friend of law enforcement and no serious person believes that he means that statement &#8212; it cuts to the core of the paradoxes buttressing a politics of expedience and self-righteousness. Pitiless imposers of the people&#8217;s retribution upon crimes &#8212; or, more aptly, criminals &#8212; for which and whom they hold contempt, New York&#8217;s simultaneous contention that federal immigration law&#8217;s teeth end where the cosmopolitan tolerance of its state lines begin is too ironic to be the fruits of anything but cynicism.
One of the (many) great ironies of the Trump presidency, as Tucker Carlson notes, is that the people who a mere two years ago labeled an affinity for federalism a species of Faubusite intolerance, now themselves hold high the flag of states&#8217; rights as a means proper of &#8220;resistance.&#8221; An ideology that induces its adherents to selectively mete out the fiat of federal law upon its myriad dissenters approaches a more righteous cause for such resistance, one intuits.
Outraged at the prospective pardoning of a man whose visceral crime was a minor campaign finance violation and actual offense was infidelity to the cult of Obama-worship, the New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood released a statement decrying, among other things, Dinesh D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s pardon and the &#8220;double jeopardy loophole.&#8221; Such a loophole is known, in other parlance, as a clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, a document that she herself is duty-bound to uphold by her own oath of office.
Underwood&#8217;s ultimate goal is likely <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/schneiderman-double-jeopardy/558389/">more nuanced</a> but no less foul; her invocation of a remedy for the &#8220;loophole&#8221; is a call for the ability to try federally pardoned citizens for violations of New York law, even if they have already been previously tried on a federal level.
There is a palpable contempt for the founders&#8217; enshrined protection from retrial; that and other provisions in the Constitution certainly weaken the &#8220;resistance&#8221; effort, and if the sitting president is indeed a fascistic despot waiting to intern visible minorities in internment camps like a <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-ushers-in-japanese-american-internment">Democratic forebearer</a> then constitutional norms seem of little consequence.
Therein lies the great paradox for American progressives in the civil service: can they swear to &#8220;support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic&#8221; and concurrently serve an ideology that <a href="https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/22/donald-trump-using-founding-fathers-racism-cloak-present-day-white-nationalism/">despises the Founders</a> and their seminal document&#8217;s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-us-founded-on-racist-principles">principles</a> and civic vision?
Progressives have long abhorred the Constitution&#8217;s <a href="https://constitution.hillsdale.edu/document.doc?id=322">penchant</a> for negative liberty, and deified progressive president Woodrow Wilson long sought to <a href="https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&amp;context=pell_theses">unshackle himself</a> from the bounds of constitutionally delineated power. The Left&#8217;s broader distaste for the very documents they swear to uphold is a paradox that predates the movement&#8217;s current hysteria in the face of a Trump presidency, but the climate of panic that has enveloped the culture has exacerbated progressive hostility for the country&#8217;s founding documents.
Let&#8217;s hope we don&#8217;t lose the Constitution&#8217;s Fifth Amendment to the ill-tempered political preferences of a New York civil servant.

HIRSCHAUER: New York AG Swears An Oath She Could Never Uphold

Andrew Cuomo

Constitution

New York

After strong criticism from both the Left and the Right over his comment about student survivors of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, conservative documentary maker and author Dinesh D&#8217;Souza issued an apology for being &#8220;insensitive.&#8221;
D&#8217;Souza made his widely-criticized comment in response to <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeednews/florida-school-shooting?utm_term=.peYO7X1qV#.qp1VX1xWr">BuzzFeed</a> publishing a photo of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students reacting emotionally to Florida&#8217;s House voting, &#8220;in the presence of student protesters,&#8221; against opening a debate on legislation to ban the sale or possession of &#8220;assault&#8221; rifles.
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AP photo of school shooting survivors watching Florida lawmakers vote down a bill to ban assault weapons <a href="https://t.co/fxYxXSBoRA">https://t.co/fxYxXSBoRA</a> <a href="https://t.co/3K6N1jepGX">pic.twitter.com/3K6N1jepGX</a>
&#8212; Jon Passantino (@passantino) <a href="https://twitter.com/passantino/status/966072311534182401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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D&#8217;Souza replied with a joke he later said he regretted.
&#8220;Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs,&#8221; he wrote.
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Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs <a href="https://t.co/Vg3mXYvb4c">https://t.co/Vg3mXYvb4c</a>
&#8212; Dinesh D&#8217;Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href="https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/966078572321562625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The comment sparked backlash from both the Left and Right. A few examples:
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No. Just no. <a href="https://t.co/zr9Vm8fgUJ">https://t.co/zr9Vm8fgUJ</a>
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/966100317254414336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Dinesh, that&#8217;s tasteless, dumb and only funny to trolls and bots. Stop.
&#8212; Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/966105307293388803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Imagine being so depraved that you have to go after kids this way. <a href="https://t.co/Kcsg0arQOw">pic.twitter.com/Kcsg0arQOw</a>
&#8212; Yashar Ali (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/966084504371818497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/374819-dinesh-dsouza-apologizes-for-mocking-parkland-shooting-survivors-after-massive">The Hill</a> notes, about 15 hours later, D&#8217;Souza issued an apology in which he said he was attempting to highlight &#8220;media manipulation&#8221; but ended up being &#8220;insensitive&#8221; to the plight of the students.
&#8220;While it aimed at media manipulation, my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy. I&#8217;m truly sorry,&#8221; he wrote.
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While it aimed at media manipulation, my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy. I&#8217;m truly sorry
&#8212; Dinesh D&#8217;Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href="https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/966308659138527233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The argument that the media has been manipulating grieving students to promote an agenda has been leveled by many others, including The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27344/walsh-stop-using-traumatized-kids-push-your-matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a>, as well as a student survivor of the Parkland shooting, who <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/27296/parkland-high-school-student-media-politicizing-ryan-saavedra">criticized the media</a> for being &#8220;more concerned about gun control at this moment rather than the fact that there were 17 people that were killed.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27296/parkland-high-school-student-media-politicizing-ryan-saavedra">Parkland High School Student: Media Politicizing Tragedy To Push Gun Control, Not Focusing On Students</a>

Dinesh D’Souza Apologizes For ‘Insensitive’ Comment About Parkland Shooting Survivors

Shooting

Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, author of &#8220;The Big Lie,&#8221; hosts the newest Prager University <a href="https://www.prageru.com/videos/fascism-right-or-left">video</a>, &#8220;Is Fascism Right or Left?&#8221; where he discusses the little known history of the fascist movement &#8212; a history the far-left would rather remain buried.
&#8220;&#8216;He&#8217;s a fascist!&#8217; For decades, this has been a favorite smear of the left, aimed at those on the right,&#8221; D&#8217;Souza begins. &#8220;Every Republican president, for that matter, virtually every Republican since the 1970s, has been called a fascist; now, more than ever.&#8221;
He continues, &#8220;This label is based on the idea that fascism is a phenomenon of the political right. The left says it is, and some self-styled white supremacists and neo-Nazis embrace the label. But are they correct?&#8221;
Capitalism, D&#8217;Souza points out, can be traced to Adam Smith, and socialism can be traced to Karl Marx, but the principle philosopher of fascism has been hidden by far-left historians. 
&#8220;Let me introduce him to you. His name is Giovanni Gentile,&#8221; D&#8217;Souza says. 
Gentile was an Italian philosopher born in the first half of the 20th century. In his writings, he dismisses individualism in favor of a system where citizens were subordinate to the state.
&#8220;Like his philosophical mentor, Karl Marx, Gentile wanted to create a community that resembles the family, a community where we are &#8216;all in this together,'&#8221; says D&#8217;Souza. &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to see the attraction of this idea. Indeed, it remains a common rhetorical theme of the left.&#8221;
Gentile&#8217;s influence strongly impacted left-wing politics over the last century.
D&#8217;Souza points out, &#8220;At the 1984 convention of the Democratic Party, the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, likened America to an extended family where, through the government, people all take care of each other.&#8221;
He adds, &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s changed. Thirty years later, a slogan of the 2012 Democratic Party convention was, &#8216;The government is the only thing we all belong to.&#8217; They might as well have been quoting Gentile.&#8221;
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