American Greatness
Dinesh D'Souza
Aug. 10, 2018
I’ve never interviewed a white supremacist before, so I didn’t know what to expect when Richard Spencer showed up to talk to me, with my film team present and the cameras rolling. Spencer is often portrayed as the most dangerous man in America. A profile of him in the Atlantic Monthly likened him to Hitler with the title, “His Kampf,†and when he showed up to speak at the University of Florida the governor declared a state emergency. Normally you have to be a hurricane or an epidemic to qualify for that designation.
My wife Debbie and I had arranged security—after all, we are both immigrants from Third World countries and Spencer is not known to be a fan of our type. But from the moment we saw him, we knew we had nothing to fear. Spencer came alone, unaccompanied by goons. He looked around nervously, giving me an eager-to-please smile. I saw right away he is a cordial, diffident guy. Dressed in a tweed jacket, he looked somewhat like an academic from a previous era.
“No, I’m not a Nazi,†Spencer said right away. “I’m not a neo-Nazi. I’m not any of those things.†Why then, I asked him, did you and your pals give the Nazi salute, the raised arm and the “Hail Trumpâ€? At first Spencer pretended it was no big deal. “Well, you know, we have Hail to the Chief, lots of things.†But when I pressed him acknowledged it was for effect, a kind of up-yours to the politically correct class. “I was being provocative.â€
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