{"id":243995,"date":"2017-08-10T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=243995"},"modified":"2017-08-11T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:09:12","slug":"dinesh-dsouza-on-how-the-nazis-borrowed-ideas-from-american-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/10\/dinesh-dsouza-on-how-the-nazis-borrowed-ideas-from-american-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh D\u2019Souza on How the Nazis Borrowed Ideas from American Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: On Tuesday afternoon, I interviewed the author and moviemaker, Dinesh D\u2019Souza. He has a new book coming out called The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.<\/a>\u00a0Provocative, obviously: “Exposing the Nazi roots of the American left.” So I chatted with him for the upcoming issue of The Limbaugh Letter.<\/a> What he said… He gave three examples of how his book is true, the allegation here that the Nazis were able to take cues from the American left.<\/p>\n

I wanted to share them with you as a prelude to getting into all the rest of the content on today\u2019s program. There are three bites here. They run just about a minute each, and we\u2019ve edited this for time. You\u2019ll have to read the entire interview when it comes out in the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. But the first claim that D\u2019Souza makes — and by the way, to back this up, we need to point out that militant Islam has also deep ties to Hitler and Nazism.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hitler had an appreciation and an understanding for Islam, and there are numerous bits of evidence that recount meetings between the Grand Mufti and mullahs and Hitler during World War II. These are things not said in polite society. It\u2019s not alleged. What D\u2019Souza is doing — and he\u2019s in the process of making a movie about this as well. He said it will be ready next summer, into next September, as a prelude to the election. His first contention is there are basically three examples of the Nazis, the German Nazis adopting leftist ideas from the American Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you why he decided to do this. He\u2019s like everybody else in the right-wing: Fed up with the allegation that racism and all this has its home in the Republican Party. It\u2019s the exact opposite. Racism, segregation, all of this, these were all Democrats back in the 1960s that were trying to violate civil rights and keep blacks out of universities.<\/p>\n

All those governors and Bull Connor, the fire chief, turning the firehoses on African-American protesters and Martin Luther King? They\u2019re all Democrats. D\u2019Souza is, like many people in the right, frustrated with this history revisionism. So he decided to write the book and do a movie about how it\u2019s even worse than that, and his first example here is how Hitler stole from the Jacksonian Democrats of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

D\u2019SOUZA: Hitler remembered that in the 19th century the Jacksonian Democrats — despite the existence of all these treaties with the American Indians — essentially decided to violate the treaties, throw the Indians off their land, drive them further west. So displace them, resettle that land — and if any of the Indians remained, either kill them or attempt to enslave them. Hitler goes: “This is a fantastic idea!<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t need to go to India like the British. I\u2019ll just conquer in Europe; I\u2019ll throw the Poles off their land, the Slavs, the Eastern Europeans, the Russians. We\u2019ll resettle that land with German families — and if any of the natives stay back, we\u2019ll enslave them.” So this notion — the historians call it Lebensraum, which means “living space.” But it\u2019s basically German expansion in Europe. Hitler got the idea to do that from the Jacksonian Democrats of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

RUSH: As I talked to him about it, I said, “Wait, is this just your interpretation? Are you looking at events that happened in America in the 19th century and then comparing events that happened in Europe in the 1940s? Are you drawing a connection?” “No, no, the Nazis acknowledged this,” he said. The historical record is clear.” The Nazis acknowledged where they, quote\/unquote, learned this stuff. His point here was that when he saw how the Jacksonian Democrats dealt with Indians, Native Americans, throwing them on the reservation, throwing them off — basically getting them out of mainstream circulation; saying, “Hey, this is a good idea.”<\/p>\n