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Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

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The #1 New York Times bestseller and source for the blockbuster feature film Hillary's America, the top-grossing documentary of 2016...

Dinesh D’Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller America: Imagine a World Without Her, has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years—or possibly eight years—of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable.

No more will America be a land of opportunity. Instead, it will be a land of rapacious crony capitalism, run solely for the benefit of friends of the Obamas and the Clintons and the Democratic Party. It will, in fact, be the fulfillment of a dream the Democratic Party has had from the beginning…a dream of stealing America for the politically favored few.

In Hillary's America, D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary and the secret history of the Democratic Party, including: how Democrats transitioned from pro-slavery to pro-enslavement; the long-standing Democratic political war against women; how Hillary Clinton’s political mentor was, literally, a cold-blooded gangster; how the Clintons and other Democrats see foreign policy not in terms of national interest, but in terms of personal profit; how Democratically controlled cities have turned into hotbeds of crime and corruption; and much, much more.

Not only is Hillary Clinton a liar and a criminal—who would have been indicted for mishandling classified information on her secret email sever had the Democratic Party not closed ranks around her—she is also the culmination of her party's deliberate and stunning plot to redistribute wealth and political power to the liberal elite.

Find out how Hillary and Bill used the Clinton Foundation to ruthlessly sell State Department influence to the highest foreign bidder. Find out what shady backroom Democrat dealers taught Hillary Clinton her particular brand of corrupt party politics. And most importantly, find out whether America can stop her from destroying the country once and for all.

294 pages, Hardcover

First published July 11, 2016

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Dinesh D'Souza

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Dinesh D’Souza is a political commentator, bestselling author, filmmaker and a former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, Dinesh D'Souza graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983. He served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. D'Souza writes primarily about Christianity, patriotism and American politics.

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August 26, 2017
Whomever wrote the blurb for this book reminded me of Bill Mahler who tried everything in his power to make a fool of the author. Instead of being entertaining, it was annoying and plain common bullying. Oprah used to do the same thing and after a few episodes of her self-induced egotistical hagiography forced upon the viewer, I just left her in peace forever. Nope, I'm not the groupie type at all.

I suspect the same thing happened in the recent elections in America when voters just got fed up for being silenced. The people turned their backs on the Democrats and tried to affiliate elsewhere. The results are everywhere in plain sight. Furious Leftest media sources who were caught out lying to the public, are determined to destroy the man who exposed them.

But really, don't you just find it infuriating of American tv-interviewers(in particular) to shout each other down and interrupt their guests? That happen on all stations, even the non-American Al Jazeera! Ugh!!!!!

Finding out the truth nowadays requires a lot of time, since no media source can ever be trusted again. People are so scared of voicing their opinions in case they get vilified by college deans, movie companies, media, etc. that even friends and family remain quiet in fear of losing their loved ones. I lost one of my dearest friends, a Democrat, when I voiced my opinion that Donald Trump is going to win this elections. (A friendship of thirty years just seized to exist. How utterly and damn sad is that? I just voiced an opinion and for that a friendship got lost?)

The aim to conquer and divide is relentless and ruthless. Even Black voters who reject leftist rhetoric are called traitors.
CHAPTER 2: THE LAND STEALER
By itself the Jackson ploy was transparent and got nowhere. But it's worth noting, because successive generations of Democrats have continued Jackson's practice of trying to discredit nonwhite opponents by portraying them as inauthentic. Today when Republicans who are black, Hispanic, or Native American expose Democratic chicanery, they are routinely denounced--not just by Democrats but also by their allies in the press--as sellouts and, in the case of African Americans, "Uncle Toms."

For example, political scientist Manning Marable said of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, “Ethnically, Thomas has ceased to be an African American.” Columnist Carl Rowan of the Washington Post wrote of black economist Thomas Sowell, “Vidkun Quisling in his collaboration with the Nazis surely did not do as much damage as Sowell is doing.” And Spike Lee said that Michael Williams, a black appointee in the Bush administration, was such a traitor to his race that he deserved to be “dragged into an alley and beaten with a Louisville slugger.”39
What I found most interesting about this book, is the historical facts about the origins of the Democratic Party. Like all postmodern literature, nothing can ever be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth anymore. Somewhere, someone will delve into history again and haul out the facts that nobody thought will ever see the light of day. We experience it in historical fiction, and now in numerous alternative media outlets.

I will read Hillary's latest autobiography as well. I believe in balance. And fairness. I guess there are not many people who will have the guts to insist on fairness openly. But I do. In fact, I insist.

I insist on allowing anyone to complete their sentences without being interrupted. I insist that anyone should trust me enough to respect them, when they share their viewpoints. And I know, from many years of experience, that it has enrich my life immensely and made my world a much better place to live in.

I was digging into the Charlottesville tragedy, when I found Bill Mahler's pathetic interview with Dinesh D'Souza. Instead of cheering the despicable host on, I decided to read one of Dinesh D'Souza's books. Give him the opportunity to complete his sentences. And so by the way, I checked. This author is indeed a super bestselling author.

There are trivial facts, already known, in the book, but highly interesting new information that kept me reading. For instance:
** the history of the Ku Klux Klan as the bullying leg of the Democratic Party in the 1920s, and the fact that many of them were delegates at the Democratic Convention where they staged a rally.
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of former Confederate soldiers; its first grand wizard was a Confederate general who was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. The Klan soon spread beyond the South to the Midwest and the West and became, in the words of historian Eric Foner, “the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”
** That Hillary claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary, but that he became famous a few years after her birth.

** That not a single Republican owned slaves in 1860. That all four million slaves were owned by Democrats.

** the progression from slavery to enslavement

I strongly believe in freedom of speech. I will always defend it. But I also know that I need to do some homework before I exercise that privilege. And that I will have to do some homework, fact checking, after reading this book too.

I also do not believe for one minute that personal enrichment were only a Clinton political goal. History teach us differently all over the world. I do believe that the same dirt will be found in a few Republican gardens as well.

The author is outspoken, controversial, mouthy, often melodramatic. But so is Hillary in her latest autobiography.
As we will see in this book, Hillary is a criminal who found the criminal practices of Saul Alinsky (communist, and author of the book “Rules for Radicals”) to be too weak-kneed for her taste, and Alinsky was a gangster who found the criminal practices of the Al Capone gang to be a tad sentimental. In short, Hillary is the true Democrat, the gangster par excellence.

I suspect this is why the Democratic establishment lined up so quickly behind her. While the Republicans had a real primary, hotly contested, the Democrats had a primary in which Bernie seemed to win again and again but never seemed to make a dent in Hillary’s lead. That’s because the Democratic super-delegates were uniformly in her camp, even though there was throughout the campaign the risk that she would be indicted.
For me, freedom of speech validates this version of history. The reader can decided which information will be relevant and important. We all interpret information from our own experience.

I suspect that Dinesh D'Souza, an immigrant from India, experienced the fall of colonialism in his own country, and the rise of communism/ socialism in India. He recognizes the same modus operandi now unfolding in the American society. As an outsider, living for many years now legally in America, he watches this part of history being written in the greatest nation on earth. People who have experienced the socalled liberation struggles, have a much better insight than those who still have to go through it and still don't realize what is happening to them. He is trying to defend freedom on all levels of thought, action and lifestyle. He warns against the loss of freedom of choice. Some might say that he is overreacting, but he did excellent research in justifying his viewpoint. I think he is a voice that needs to be heard, even if you disagree.

The thing is, I'm curious. I want to know stuff. I read non-fiction, political rants forms part of it. I love Americans, I love America. I read books from all over the world. Allow me to learn more in my own time, in my own way. I respect all human beings. I want to know your story. That's why I read books such as White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg. Just take a quick peak at my nonfiction shelf. I'm full of it! (curiosity)

Read between the lines. And read both books(Hillary's and this one), I would say. Life sometimes needs more color than just back or white, right?
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August 8, 2016
What can I say of how eye opening this book reveals about Hilliary and the rest of the Democratic party. Unfortunately for someone who is just loyal to her or the party is just going to either say, whatever the Republican party are just as bad, Hilliary is not bad at all and this is all false and their views will never be changed. And that is just sad. Here are a few important facts people just don't remember.

Lincoln was a Republican.
The South were Democrats pre Civil War and during the post war.
Leading Democrats include at least one president, two Supreme Court justices and numerous senators and congressmen, were Klan members. The last one, Robert Bryd, died in 2010 and was eulogized by President Obama and former Pres Bill Clinton. Hilliary called him her "mentor." He filibustered the Civil Rights Act by speaking on the Senate floor for 14 hours.

The Reps controlled both houses of Congress after the Civil War. The 13th Amendment ending slavery was passed by the Senate on Apr 8, 1864 and the by the House on Jan 31, 1865. Reps support was 100%, Dems support 23%.

On June 13, 1866 The Rep Congress passed the 14th Amend granting full citizenship and equal rights under the law to blacks. Not a single Dem in either House of the Senate voted for it.

In 1868 Congress with support from US Grant passed the 15th Amend with the right to vote for blacks. In the Senate it was 39 (all Reps) to 13 (all Dems). In the House all Yes came from Reps, all no came from Dems.

The Republicans were the main reason why the Civil Right Acts of 1964 laws were passed. Rep's voted in far higher percentages for the bill than the Dems. This is also true of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The main opposition to both bills came from Dems.

Hilliary while a US Senator of NY did not propose a single important piece of legislation.
While Sec of State she negotiated no treaties, secured no agreements, prevented no conflicts while in office.
During her tenure, 60 companies that lobbied the State Department donated more than $26M to the Clinton Foundation. "At least 44 of those 60 companies also participated in philanthropic projects valued at $3.2B that were set up through a wing of the foundation called the Clinton Global Initiative. It was only after these companies donated money to their charity did they get the contracts.

Hilliary's attacks of the multiple women who Bill have slept with over the years going after them financially, having her goons terrorism them and in some cases people close to them have suddenly died.

Her college plan program she touts as free is not free. It will add another $350B to the national debt, which of course will be passed on to the next generation. Or really, she is reaching into the back pockets of young people, taking out their own future earnings, and using those earnings to pay for young people's education today. She is giving young people the false impression that she is providing free education.

The pardons Bill gave everyone before leaving office that gave "donations" to the Clintons, the Clinton Library or other Clinton causes.

The Clintons taking over $360K worth of stuff before leaving the office. When it was exposed they claimed it was gifts. They returned $28K worth of gifts and reimbursed the gov only $95K for the rest. They tried to steal the Norman Rockwell painting of the Lady Liberty torch, but the secret service took it back. When Obama came into office he gave it to them for the Clinton Library.

I will let you read about the Clinton Foundation yourself. Too much to write about in how truly evil they really are.

Another key thing is how no one has really written about Saul Alinsky, who was a mentor to both Obama and Hilliary. He had ties to the Chicago mob. I will let you read all about him in the book.

And of course the media is controlled by the Dems.

Lastly if you haven't seen the movie (go to You tube) Clintons Cash, you have to. This just tells you how corrupt the Clintons really are. It made me sick watching it.
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10 reviews
July 26, 2016
This book provides a brief history of the Democratic Party, then it discusses Hillary Clinton and her extensive corruption. Much of the content has been discussed in other sources, but this offers a good description of how her corruption ties into the Democratic Party and is consistent with their crimes, lies, and cover ups since its inception. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in learning more about this candidate for President in addition to the truth about the Democratic Party.
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July 19, 2016
Utterly delusional. Many claims, none substantiated.
If you are low information this book is for you.
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August 13, 2016
Dinesh D'Souza wrote another excellent book. In this upcoming election we owe it to ourselves to get all the facts. This book isn't about Hillary, it's about the truth of the Democrat party.
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July 31, 2016
Wow!!! This book is a jaw dropping, page turner. I saw the movie twice, it was incredible both times. The book dives into more detail, documentary and information of the secret history of the Democratic Party from the time it was created by Andrew Jackson to the present 'Progressive' party and the political corruption (then and now) swept under the carpet. No hear-say or rumor material in this book. Dinesh did his research and every fact is referenced to its source documentation. This book is written well and holds one's attention. It is a great read.
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August 4, 2016
My son loves to "remind" me (rub it in my face, actually) that I supported Hillary Clinton when she was running against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. I'm a Republican at heart, but I didn't trust McCain and Romney rubbed me wrong. I told him then that Clinton was a "smart woman." And that is one thing I will never take away from Hillary Clinton---she IS a smart woman. But Hitler was smart. and Mussolini. and Stalin. and Lenin. I've studied H.C. more the last few years and find her now DANGEROUSLY smart. Perhaps "conniving" is the better word. This book, though much maligned by Democrats who've been drinking too much of the Clinton Kool-Aid, affirms all conclusions I've drawn from my own research on Clinton in the last year or so.
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July 25, 2016
Haven't read it yet, but having lived in foreign countries and knowing the history of America written in other countries' history books, I see all the parts of history that have really been changed or obliterated from our country's history nowadays to fit the liberal/democrat agenda.

Substantiated details of facts that the democratic party don't want citizens to remember about them.
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August 21, 2016
Like his previous book, D'Souza takes facts and tries to warn America what the Democrats in general and Hillary in particular have in store for America, but unfortunately, those who need to read it won't.
He goes through the history of the Democrat Party, how they were the Party of Slavery, Jim Crow, anti-immigration, Separate but equal, the home of the KKK, but how they have manipulated with the help of the progressive leaning press, revisioned history, projecting all that on the Republicans. He also goes through the history of the political gangster Saul Alinsky, who learned extortion from Al Capone and how both Obama and Clinton are his disciples. How Hillary has not only enabled her husband's abuse of women, but how she not only covered up but persecuted his victims. And finally, the Clinton goal, to get unlimited wealth and power and the expense of the American people. While progressives claim they are for social justice, financial gain has always been their purpose. Scary stuff.
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August 30, 2017
A complete failure of historical thinking, paired with "This thing is evil, ergo the opponent is saintly", this book is amusingly bad -- and then terrifying, because you realize this is how the SMART Republicans think. And that's just goddamned dangerous.
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July 29, 2016
Very informative. Not just about her.
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August 15, 2016
"Hillary's America" by Dinesh D'Souza is an eye opening read! D'Souza masterfully and intelligently destroys the Democratic Parties claim of being the party of the people. Throughout the history of the Democratic Party, we see a party that has lied about their entire history. In the second half of the book, D'Souza lays out his argument against voting for Hillary Clinton. The facts and pure corruption of the Clintons is very apparent. From early scandals in Arkansas to Hillary Clinton's current run for the Presidency, the total weight of their corruption is starting to become apparent. In the end, an excellent book. If the American people read this book and do research, they will find that any candidate is better than Hillary Clinton
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August 10, 2016
Should be required reading.

This book is amazing! I learned many things I wasn't aware of and I thought I was well informed.

By all means, spend some valuable time reading this book. It has made me even more fearful of what could be in store for us under a new President Clinton.

The Clintons are pure evil! The represent the absolute worst of the Democratic Party. Hillary, the Enabler of Bill's womanizing and assaults on women, is much worse than Bill. Bill is an almost comedic shill of an ambition driven Hillary.

The Democrats have been lying to mi origins for generations. It's hold on the minds of the minority voters must be broken.

We must strive to reveal the true oppressor which is the Democratic Party.

Read this book and urge everyone you know to read it or at the very least, see the movie.
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August 5, 2016
Lost Forever by Larry Ransopher

Americans are lazy peoples. They expect someone to do the work for them. The people needs to the research for the truth and fact because it out there if they only do the work. You're is great source of truth and fact s and eye opener. If seek it out. We're close to losing our country, rights, freedom, liberty, and more. If Hillary elected it is over for America and the world, no more. Shining city on the hill, reign in new age of darkness forever.
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August 15, 2016
Lots of good reviews on this book but of course the Dems lie and say there is nothing to back up his statements (just look in the back to his references). The movie was excellent too. It sure tells a different story about how the progressives came to be and how they have turned things upside down. Now with the information coming out about the Clinton Foundation and their money laundering scheme I hope they finally get what's coming to them. It's time they were caught red handed and put in jail. I just hope it comes before the election!
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September 22, 2017
Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
4 Stars
After being impressed with Dinesh D’Souza’s Big Lie I decided I needed to read this book. I’ve heard a lot about this book but hadn’t really wanted to read it. Most of what this book talked about I knew already, however when I thought about reading it I thought that maybe this book would explain Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”. It did explain that and it’s really opened my eyes about other things that have bothered me.

Basically this book explains the deplorable history of the Democrat Party and how it’s been rotten since it’s founding by the despicable Andrew Jackson. Dinesh shows how Hilary profits by the same sins as ol’ Andrew did. Both have become rich by profiting from their political offices. Think about this Hilary and Andrew both became rich and were politicians their entire lives. They didn’t invent anything. They didn’t create a business or become a captain of industry. They just profited off of their public offices, which is supposedly illegal but is, at the very least, immoral.

Andrew did it by breaking treaties with Indigenous Americans throwing them off their lands and then he and his cronies profited in shady land deals. Hilary did it by marrying Bill Jefferson Clinton (BJ) and then together the pulled off all kinds of shady deals. In Arkansas they profited by cattle futures and land investments. When BJ was in the White House he sold all kinds of access, like dinners, overnights in the White House and by putting their friends into lucrative government positions like the travel office. Then they lied about what they did and the progressive praetorian press gave them cover. When they left the White House they stole stuff that belonged to the US like dinner ware, furniture, paintings etc. They took around $600,000 worth and said it was theirs. However, they were forced to return it but kept $200,000 of it. After they left office they were both given huge advances on books (both of which sucked and the publishers lost a lot of money on them. Especially Hilary’s.) and BJ started giving speeches for enormous fees. Most presidents do this, it’s expected, but most don’t have a wife who is a senator in NY. Can you say conflict of interest. BJ’s been giving a lot more speeches for longer and for higher fees than any other presidents. If other presidents were doing it I’d have heard of it. All you hear is the one or two really big fees the Bush’s and Reagan gave right after they left office, nothing like BJ. Then BJ and Hilary set up their shake down racket, called the Clinton Foundation while BJ was president with the idea that they could sell favors of a future senator and president — I mean to help “strengthen the capacity of people in the US and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.” Ha. If you believe that your a complete idiot. I was going to say a member of the praetorian press, a hardcore democrat, or a friend of BJ, but all those people know how crooked the Clinton’s are they just cover for them.

Andrew, Hilary and BJ are not the only politicians that do this. LBJ did it. Harry Reid did it. Those are the two that come immediately to mind. Both Democrats. I’m sure there might be a few Republicans that have done it, but they can’t do it at such levels. If a Republican does something that a Democrat can get away with the press forces them to leave office. It’s more than just the press, the Republicans have morals so when the press starts making a stink about a Republican the party forces them to resign and doesn’t give them cover.

The book goes into a lot more detail about this, and give many more examples. It shows how the Democrats have been responsible for all the things that are supposedly “America’s” sins. Slavery, Jim Crow Segregation laws that denied basic civil rights like voting. The Klu Klux Klan and lynching. Throwing the Indigenous Americans off their land and committing genocide against them. The euthanasia movement and laws passed. Denying Jewish refugees entrance before WWII, the internment of Japanese. All done by Democrats, and while they were committing these heinous acts they were opposed by the Republicans.

For my whole life I’ve known a lot of these facts, and I’ve known that most blacks continue to vote for Democrats despite the fact that their situations don’t improve. If fact if you read Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell the Democrats and the Welfare State have destroyed the African American family and created a terrible culture. When I’ve asked why this is I’ve been told that in 1968 Nixon and the Republicans developed the “Southern Strategy” and appealed to the racist southerners and they all magically switched from Democrats to Republicans and I accepted it. Why did I accept it? I’ll tell you and I’ll explain why the Southern Strategy is a progressive lie.

After the despicable Democrats tried to destroy the US by seceding from the US so they could continue keeping slaves and fought a war so they could continue oppressing the slaves, they were disappointed, obviously, with the results of the war. They then decided that they would keep African Americans oppressed through legal means. The Republicans — a party created to oppose slavery — saw what the Democrats wanted to do and they passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments that would guarantee the African Americans their rights as citizens. These are often referred to as the completion of the Constitution. However the Democrats ignored these and created a system of Jim Crow laws that denied African Americans their rights. They also developed a militant arm called the Ku Klux Klan. These racist Democrats were mainly in the South. There was another movement called progressivism that started arising mainly in the North. This movement was a result of the Enlightenment and it generally thought that humans and society could progress and improve through science. These people were big on Social Darwinism. The heroes of this movement were people like John Dewy and Margaret Sanger. Modern progressives use the praetorian press and the educational system to distort the truth and present these people as heroes but if you read this book and do a little research it’s not hard to find out what kind of people they were and the ideas they espoused.

In 1913 Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate — the Bull Moose Party — and split the Republican vote. This allowed a Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson, to be elected. Woodrow was from the South originally, but had moved North and and became a progressive intellectual eventually becoming President of Yale. When he was elected he was considered more of a Northern Progressive Democrat, but he proved true to his roots. Since the Civil War the Federal Government been desegregated but Woodrow segregated the Federal Government and Armed Services. Nice guy. He also screened the first moving picture show in the White House “The Birth of a Nation” which was a dramatization of the heroic Ku Klux Klan. While it’s not in the book ol’ Woodrow had this to say “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation...until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern Country.” With this kind of support the Ku Klux Klan experienced fantastic growth throughout the country. Enough so that at the 1928 Democratic Convention 10,000 Clansmen marched in New York City and it was called the great Klan Bake. Way to go Democrats.

The great Progressive Democratic hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) wasn’t a known Ku Klux Klan member but he appointed a Klansman as a Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to help him get legal cover for his socialistic experiments. He also kept the Democrats from having an anti-lynching plank in the Democratic Platform while he was president and helped keep anti-lynching legislation proposed by the Republicans from being voted on. He knew he needed the support of the Racist Democrats to stay in power. So the Progressive and Racist Democrats colluded so that African Americans could continue to be oppressed and lynched. While doing these great deeds FDR also would not allow Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi’s into the US, and when the war started put Japanese citizens into concentration camps.

The sad thing about this was that the Great Depression hit the poorest people the hardest. Everyone remembers the dust bowl and the Okies going west. Well the poor African Americans in the South were also hard hit, and they started voting Democrat at this time since they were getting some relief from FDRs Great Society. So they were in the unenviable position of voting for the party that supported the Ku Klux Klan and lynching because they were helping them economically. They did this even though many of the programs of the Great Society were racist in their implementation. How’s that for ironic?

Lastly we come to the final Progressive Democratic Hero. Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). After WWII the South could see that things were going to change. There was a split in the Democratic Party and a group of Dixiecrats broke away who supported segregation. They ran a third party and this helped elect Eisenhower. Other Democrats were racist but stayed in the Party. There were also Progressive Northern Democrats who were not racist. I believe John F Kennedy (JFK) was on of these. After the election of Eisenhower the Dixiecrats came back into the party. LBJ was forced on JFK so that he could help carry the south. JFK and LBJ despised each other.

JFK started the second round of Civil Rights legislation in the early 1960’s. These were laws designed to reinforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments that were passed by Republicans, which the Democrats had basically ignored and gutted. After JFK was killed LBJ was able to see that something needed to be done to save the Democratic Party. In a conversation with Senator Richard Russell of Georgia LBJ said “These niggers, they’re getting pretty uppitty these days and that’s a problem for us since they got something now that they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.” Otherwise, Johnson concluded, blacks may start voting Republican and “it’ll be Reconstruction all over again.” Nice guy LBJ. So LBJ needed to pass the Civil Right Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and to do it he needed to have Republicans, because the former Dixiecrats were trying their best to filibuster the legislation. There were a few Northern Democrats who voted for these acts, and few Republicans who voted against them. However, if the Republicans voted with the same percentage as the Democrats then the acts would not have passed. So once again it was the Republicans that supported the African Americans and made sure they had their rights. There were a lot of Democrats that did everything in their power to make sure that the blacks stayed in their place, and Dinesh lists them, but my favorite two have always been the sanctimonious father of the sanctimonious Al Gore Jr — Al Gore Sr. And J. William Fulbright of the Fulbright Fellowship fame. So it was Democrat Governors like Wallace that stood in the doorways of colleges, and Democratic Sheriffs like Bull Connors who attacked protestors that did everything they could to keep blacks down, and Republicans that passed legislation to support them and a Republican President who sent in troops to help enforce the rulings of the Supreme Court.

So in 1968 the South was changing. It was less rural, more industrialized, becoming less racist and Nixon and the Republicans realized that they could appeal to this rising middle class voters on prosperity and economic opportunity. If Nixon had made any racist appeals to these voters he would have ruined his appeal to the rest of the nation. There is no record of Nixon ever saying anything racist like LBJ and a lot of evidence that he always supported Civil Rights. With this approach Nixon was able to carry the Upper Southern States and win the Presidency. Governor Wallace ran as a third party candidate that year on a segregation platform and he carried the Deep South States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. So much for a racist Southern Strategy carried out by the Republicans.

So despite all this history and evidence we’re supposed to believe that after 100 years suddenly the Republicans went against type and started supporting things they’d always been against? Why does anyone believe this? Why did I meekly accept it? Well the Democrats realize what an appalling record that they had historically and that they couldn’t get anyone to vote for them if people knew. Luckily they have a progressive praetorian press and educational system that is willing to lie and say that the black is white, and that the Republicans all became racist homophobic anti-Semities in 1968 while the despicable Democrats suddenly saw the light and have became the good guys. The amazing thing about his is how many people believe it. I know that I grew up believing it because it was what I was told by the press and taught by TV growing up and there were not a lot of alternate sources where a young skull full of mush like myself could find the truth. Nobody really had an option. We just believed the lies and distortions that were fed to us by Walter Concrite and the rest.

This is a good book. It puts together a lot of information and presents it well.
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August 7, 2017
Dinesh D’Souza has a gift for delivering information with historical factual details and examples. I have been fortunate enough to read Mr D’Souza’s many books and every time I am amazed at the level of detail and explanation. Some of the items I might have known, some I learned in more depth and some of the information was a complete new area for me to explore. Overall great book and well delivered. I had an audio copy, but will most likely get a hard copy for this one, since there are some items that I would like to book mark and do a bit more reading on my own in even greater details.

By now we all know many things Hillary Clinton, the fifty shades of Hillary, if you will and we might as well call them for what they are, scandals, cover ups, deceptions, back paddling, lies, corruption and in my own opinion, since it is post-election, for all of us dodging a bullet on someone who has done nothing to help anyone in her 30 years of political office, except the Clintons of course.

What I enjoyed in this book is the historic facts on where Democrats of the past are pretty much the same democrats of the current day. They have rebranded their platform, changed the name (liberal, progressive, etc.), created cloak after cloak of new “ideas” of how they can present the same corrupt ideas in the different packaging, but the underlining results are still the same. The objective is to take from Peter to pay Peter 1/10 back. Basically Democratic ideals of redistribution and promises to help all for the sake of the few are not new, not even new to their party or even the world, but they just try to find new way to sell them and repackage them and perform another pitch. Very interesting how Dinesh explains different political systems, which is a historical fact and how many of our previous leaders have praised those systems, while it was not taboo subject at the time. FDR was fund of Mussolini. JFK thought that fascist political system is not a bad one, until Hitler just gave it a “bad reputation”. Overall, we have seen democrat party go from slavery to enslavement and Mr D’Souza shows us step by step how selling those ideas is the core objective of the democrat platform.

What I really liked about this book specifically is how Dinesh D’Souza presents history that most try to hide, the past, the grand “flip” that the Democrats claim happened, of course. It is interesting that even today, without learning history, we can see how democrats bad decision, statement, identity politics tend to fail them time after time, so they pretend that the there was a flip, that someone else said it and now, even recently we heard some clown claim on CNN that Berkley riots, against Milo were started by a republican group, even after it was already known what they protested, the free speech by a conservative gay man who doesn’t agree with their politics. It is sad that the party that consistently claiming to be “inclusive”, “uniting”, “tolerant” is anything but those things. How amazing that if it wasn’t for people like Mr D’Souza, who do understand what it is like not to have freedom, who has immigrated from another nation and legally gained permanent status in our nation, we would have not known the facts and real problems that exist today. The reason I praise Dinesh, is because he has done what many, what my family has done, he immigrated into this great nation and appreciates the core values of United States, not trying to change it into the third world country that he himself immigrated from. I urge anyone to read this book and many others by the same author.
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Author 1 book36 followers
September 12, 2016
I used to only read literature or poetry or meaningful essays but my mind has been reduced to pulp trash like this so I have only myself to blame for being interested in such a useless book, but that said there is a review in me waiting to come out since it did spark some real dark thoughts about the nature of thought in America. D'Souza presents "Hillary's America" as an intellectual history of the Democratic Party, but to spicen up sales calls it the 'secert history of the Demcocratic Party,' as if it's a secret society that he's about to uncover, a la the Da Vinci Code, but nothing it is very new or illuminating to a political thinker, but that's not his audience.

D'Souza's big idea is that the Democratic Party has always been a slave party and in the Civil War this is true, but his claim is that the anti-black sentiments of the party never left, nor does he discriminate from one administration to the next, since a democrat is a democrat is a democrat, so F.D.R., L.B.J, Harry S. Truman, and Bill Clinton, may as well be the same man. So, how are the Democrats the part of racism in 20th century America while the Republicans aren't? Entitlement programs that keep blacks and minorities voting for Democrats, and that are intentionally created to keep them down and dependent on a Democrat being in office, thus ensuring a voting bloc.

There is a truth in this statement but D'Souza presents it as if it's the greatest revelation since the shroud of Turin, nor does he look at the untruth in the statement, by playing Devil's advocate, and looking at the predicament from the other side. For starters, there is almost no mention of the Republican Party in the entire book except a spare sentence or two, but no chapters or even whole paragraphs, except to utter an incomprehensible untruth or two, so that his arguments end up feeling very false and forced. He'll also use as a proof that certain Democratic Party Presidents were racists by scrounging up a quote behind closed doors from sixty years ago where they said the word 'nigger' while in conference with a Congressman as remembered by a biographer. Nor is there any accounting for the subtleties of language over time, especially slang, let alone context.

In one of D'Souza's more interesting strokes he calls the Democratic Party the "Evil Party" and the Republican Party the "Stupid Party" and the writing sure proves it! I can't exactly explain what this book feels like but it's somewhere between a TV movie and a pamphlet on a streetcorner, without the charm of either. The revelations about the dark side of the social safety net are so remedial that they really are written for memember of the "Stupid Party," nor is there a mention that Bill Clinton a Democrat proudly said the 'era of big government is over' and slashed the welfare state but this book isn't written for analysis.

So, let's get it straight:

Democrats = Slaveholders
Public Assistance = Servitude
Slaves = Votes

Republicans = Emancipators

I'm not sure the book gets any deeper than this, so there you go.
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556 reviews37 followers
August 18, 2016
Once again D'Souza produces an excellent work of investigative historical research and lifting of veil that masks the reality behind the political facade. Throughout this book he also explains his non-partisan (even if the majority of the book doesn't sound like it) and common sense reasoning for helping people understand the true history and intentions behind H and the democratic party/progressives. Like many others, I myself once thought of myself as a liberal person, believing that people had the right to choose whatever they wanted and live however they saw fit as long as it didn't infringe upon others' liberties. Of course I have come to learn that this is the definition of Libertarian, and Ron Paul is heavyweight champion of libertarians. But, D'Souza has very much similar views and it is with this wish for America that he has given his time, money and freedom (for a year-ish) to help educate us, and especially those who fall for these globalists' lies, on the real history and track record of their current public puppet front runner.

Make no mistake Hillary is a gangster the likes of which Al Capone, John Gotti, and even Michael Corleone (fictional) would envy. Although not covered in this book, she and Bill even have the body count to match. I have studied globalists, geopolitics, economics and the power elites for 16 years now, and I can absolutely say that these people care not one minutia for common people, let alone their supposed "friends" at the top. Despite working for the elites, the Clintons have become a monster in and unto themselves. Their business arrangement marriage is nothing more than two different types of predators forming a cooperation and protection pact. The thought that anyone would actually believe that she is the champion for women, minorities, working class, or children is completely insane.

Just to add--- I am not a Trump advocate, nor any other political party or representative. The left/right paradigm is another control measure to provide a false sense of choice, just another duopoly. I state these opinions with no other bias than the fact that I only want to see my country and its citizens prosper and enjoy the liberty that so many have fought and died for.
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467 reviews13 followers
December 13, 2016
What a choice we have in our Presidential election this year. A man with a big ego and a thin skin, whose biggest threat to success seems to be his own mouth, versus a women anointed by her own party to the nomination, who is as corrupt and dishonest as the day is long. This book on Hillary offers no surprises but documents what we have long suspected. Apparently the vast right wing conspiracy was right all along. The Clinton Foundation, although it may do some good things, has the main goal of enriching the Clinton family and their friends. How such a morally bankrupts person, married to a sexual predator, can even be close to becoming our next President shows how low our standards have slipped when we are supposed to be sending our best and brightest to Washington.
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August 7, 2016
The libs don't like it because it exposes the most corrupt, lying political hack who ever ran for office. You can tell when Hillary is lying, her lips are moving! Wait until the carp hits the fan regarding the "Pay for Play"relative to the Clinton Foundation. Someone will go to jail. Why anyone would vote for this phony is beyond me.
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39 reviews4 followers
August 24, 2016
An absolutely AMAZING book!! A must read for EVERY American. You'll see politics in a completely different light. Love the work that Dinesh does & hope he continues to write about these important issues in our society.
857 reviews2 followers
August 8, 2016
Outstanding book. The depth of Hillary's corruption and outright crimes is astounding
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683 reviews
August 26, 2016
Evil people: the Clintons.

The upcoming election will be the evil you know against the one you don't want to. Either way the American people are screwed.
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143 reviews
July 2, 2017
I thought this book might be all about Hillary Clinton. Wasn't sure I wanted to hear more of what I can hear daily on the news. That's depressing enough. Instead I was pleasantly surprised to find this book was more about our political history going back to civil war times....Lincoln and Jackson, then proceeding through history to present times. I do believe we must be knowledgeable about the past to be able to understand the present and not to repeat the same mistakes in the future. I may not agree with everything I read but I do think this book is worth reading. You may have watched the movie; I haven't. There is no way a two hour movie can begin to provide the history included in the 8 hour audio book.
30 reviews21 followers
June 18, 2017
As someone who is not a citizen of the US and not been educated there, I found this book hard to believe let alone stomach. It purports to be an intellectual examination of the Democratic Party's history but it is not intellectual in tone or content. Opinions are asserted as facts, random historical events are strung together to support the author's conspiracy theories and the whole thing is rife with misogynistic language.
To me, any work of non-fiction must be coherent, well presented and clearly evidenced, especially if it is partisan. This is gutter press trash level of reporting and should be treated as such.
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Author 1 book3 followers
August 10, 2016
This book is not likely to be read by anyone not already convinced, but it has a great deal of historical backgrounding it that will help solidify and back up what you already know because you know the difference between right and wrong. I only wish it might have been titled and promoted in such a way that someone who has made the wrong choices for the right reasons might pick it up and be persuaded.
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11 reviews1 follower
September 11, 2016
Whether you are a Republican or Democrat, everyone needs to read this book and I'm on my way to see the movie. I highly recommend this book. Dinesh D'Souza did an excellent and fantastic job depicting the history of the Democrat Party and the Clinton Family, what they stand for and how corruption and lies have evolved. Get It, You will not regret it. GO!
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3 reviews
August 8, 2016
Excellent collection of observations about the USA.

Well written and researched. I am ashamed when I think about how we have allowed a few corrupt people to so callously trample on the many including the minorities they claim to be helping while actually using them for their own benefit.
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