The Southern Segregationist Migration to the GOP
White Southern Democrats started voting for the GOP because Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972 seemed to oppose forced busing. This method of winning the segregationist vote for the GOP, called Nixon's “southern strategy,” was devised by Kevin Phillips.
Dinesh D'Souza tries to obfuscate the well known fact that most Southern segregationists switched to the GOP by putting the focus on Segregationist politicians, of whom very few switched parties.
Major racially motivated D to R switchers: S. Thurmond, J. Helms, T. Cochran, J. Tower, T. Lott Charles Pickering, James F. Byrnes, Albert Watson, William Cramer, Arthur Ravenel Jr., Dave Treen, James D. Martin, Floyd Spence, Bo Callaway, Iris Faircloth Blitch, Mills Godwin.
Not many segregationist politicians changed parties, because the Democratic Party continued to be dominant until 1980. Politicians like Senator James Eastland (who died in 1979) would have been less influential in the GOP. But those segregationists were conservative!
The Big Switch that Dinesh D'Souza Denies
Some significant public figures from the South who switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party are: John Tower, 1951; Strom Thurmond, 1964; Jesse Helms, 1970; Trent Lott, 1972.
More Democratic than Republican politicians voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964: in the House there were 153 D and 136 R votes in favor; in the Senate, 46 D and 27 R votes in favor. And of course it was signed by a Democratic president, sleazy LBJ.
In 1964 there were, from the former Confederacy, 12 Republican Congressmen and 1 Republican Senator (John Tower of Texas): every single one of them voted against the Civil Rights Act.
The racial attitudes of the two parties by 1983 can be roughly gauged by the Senate's vote on a holiday to commemorate MARTIN LUTHER KING. While majorities of both parties voted for the holiday, ONLY 4 DEMOCRATS – BUT 18 REPUBLICANS – VOTED AGAINST THE HOLIDAY.
A Misrepresentation of Both Parties
As it turns out, what D'Souza calls “the nazi roots of the American left” are, on the one hand, “progressive” Republicans, and, on the other hand, conservative Democrats that have now migrated almost entirely to the GOP.
D’Souza pretends that “progressive” Republicans and conservative Democrats were the same group. Furthermore, he wants us to believe that they were all left-wing Democrats. Clearly, none of them were left-wing Democrats!
Dinesh D'Souza on Andrew Jackson and Genocide
In America: Imagine the World Without Her, Dinesh D'Souza declared that "there was no genocide" of American Indians, that this was just another Big Lie by the left to make Americans ashamed of their country. But now Dinesh D'Souza himself is telling this "Big Lie."
"By some estimates, more than 80 percent of the Indians perished…. But there was no genocide. Millions of Indians died as a result of diseases they contracted from their exposure to the White man: smallpox, measles, cholera, and typhus…." (Dinesh S'Souza, A:ITWWH, p. 93)
"Today we think of Indians as tragic figures, woebegone on the reservation. But that's not how Andrew Jackson … saw them. Jackson knew the Indians were canny, organized, and strong…. We should not regard the Indians as passive weaklings." (Dinesh D'Souza, A:ITWWH, p. 102)
“What term other than genocide can we use to describe Democratic president Andrew Jackson's mass relocation of the Indians?” (Dinesh D'Souza, The Big Lie, 2017) "But there was no genocide." (Dinesh D'Souza, America: Imagine the World Without Her, 2014)
Dinesh D'Souza quotes Andrew Jackson out of context, "It was dark before we finished killing them," and leads his readers to believe that this refers to an act of genocide. In fact those killed (generally) were warriors fighting to the death in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
Dinesh D’Souza’s attack on Andrew Jackson as a “racist” would instantly be recognized and reviled as Cultural Marxist propaganda if it were not clothed in Republican partisanism.
What do you think President Trump would say about Dinesh D'Souza's attack on Andrew Jackson as a "racist," given Trump's admiration for President Jackson, and the fact that he has been compared to President Jackson (and likewise called a "racist")?