Weekly Standard: Dinesh Unchained

[TomSea]

I post this in the interest that it does seem newsworthy. Said to be a 25 minute read btw.

Weekly Standard:

Dinesh Unchained
ALICE B. LLOYD

The right-wing populist got his start with puerile antics at the ‘Dartmouth Review.’ American politics has finally caught up.



It was the summer of Dinesh.

On the last day of May, the right-wing populist Dinesh D’Souza was pardoned by President Donald Trump, joining that most exclusive club of former felons. His latest book, Death of a Nation, came out in late July, and the tie-in documentary hit theaters in August. Both compare his emancipator to the emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Critics found them unconvincing. But D’Souza, a grateful guest at the White House and on Trump’s favorite cable-news programs, seems only to grow bolder with every rebuke of his work. When a history professor took to Twitter to parse the inaccuracies of Death of a Nation, D’Souza challenged him to a live debate and called him a “coward” when he declined. The strategy here, he says, is to undercut his ideological enemies with his ever-readiness to scrap. When they go low, you go lower?, I ask. “When they go low, I don’t run away,” he prefers.

D’Souza’s rhetorical tactics may be perfectly suited to the Age of Trump, but he learned them long ago: at Dartmouth College in the early 1980s, where he led the Dartmouth Review, the country’s best-known conservative campus paper. “American politics has caught up with Dartmouth,” he tells me. The Review’s undergraduate antics—outing the officers of the Gay-Straight Alliance, printing an affirmative action op-ed in Ebonics, hosting a lavish luncheon alongside a fast for world hunger—readied him for Trump: “For 20 years, I wasn’t doing it. Because for 20 years, American politics wasn’t like this.” D’Souza, 57, sees himself as a pioneer of the puerilizing of political discourse. Responding reciprocally, he says, to the “gangsterization of the left” by “treating them like gangsters,” he helped pave the way for Trump. I’m surprised, therefore, when he tells me he doesn’t know what “trolling” is.

Read more at: https://www.weeklystandard.com/alice-b-lloyd/american-politics-has-caught-up-with-right-wing-populist-dinesh-dsouza

It seems a bit like a journalistic hit job from what I have heard. I have not read the whole article yet.  It sounded like it might be of interest to people here.

Need, we forget, it has been reported that Texas Senator Ted Cruz asked a favor of Trump to pardon Dinesh D'Souza. I will gladly find references for that if anyone doubts this.

[Sighlass]

Both me and my sister enjoy Dinesh stuff, and this is written as a hit piece article. That said, a lot of trouble Dinesh got himself into could of been prevented if he didn't get so hung up in his own popularity. So yes, not saying this article is totally misrepresenting him in all aspects, but it does nitpick some points that aren't worth going down unless you were trying to smear him.

[Absalom]

Dinesh is irrelevant.
More irrelevant is the Weekly Standard, a noisy rag that
never had anything to do w/Principled Conservatism;
it's scribblers being an assortment of neo-con, con artists
who are core DC establishment types.

[Sanguine]

Dinesh is irrelevant.
More irrelevant is the Weekly Standard, a noisy rag that
never had anything to do w/Principled Conservatism;
it's scribblers being an assortment of neo-con, con artists
who are core DC establishment types.

@Absalom, why do you say that?  I find Dinesh very relevant. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

@Absalom, why do you say that?  I find Dinesh very relevant.

Obviously he is a bitter weed/

Dinesh's movies are great and on point.

[Absalom]

@Absalom, why do you say that?  I find Dinesh very relevant.

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My apology; as Dinesh was not the object of my scorn.
Rather it's the neo-con cons such as Kristol, Goldberg
and the rest of those frauds.

[Sanguine]

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My apology; as Dinesh was not the object of my scorn.
Rather it's the neo-con cons such as Kristol, Goldberg
and the rest of those frauds.

OK, that makes more sense.

[Frank Cannon]

Dinesh is irrelevant.
More irrelevant is the Weekly Standard, a noisy rag that
never had anything to do w/Principled Conservatism;
it's scribblers being an assortment of neo-con, con artists
who are core DC establishment types.

Did you bother muddling through this shit piece? The Weakly Substandard is the house organ for losers, malcontents,  and Never Trump dead enders, but DeSouza is solid. That's why this stupid pig writer is slamming him.

[Silver Pines]

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My apology; as Dinesh was not the object of my scorn.
Rather it's the neo-con cons such as Kristol, Goldberg
and the rest of those frauds.

@Absalom

Thankfully TBR isn’t at the point of scorning solid conservatives like Jonah Goldberg.  I mean, I’m aware he isn’t Breitbart-approved.

What is a neo-con, anyway?

[Absalom]

@Absalom

Thankfully TBR isn’t at the point of scorning solid conservatives like Jonah Goldberg.  I mean, I’m aware he isn’t Breitbart-approved.

What is a neo-con, anyway?

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Fair enough, as we agree to disagree.
The neo-con is a "new conservative" who:
* was a former liberal/leftist,
* asserts it's the duty of the US to actively promote democracy world wide,
* wants use of the US Military, whenever necessary, to advance our interests.
The likes of Kristol, Podhoretz, Goldberg, Boot; among many, were the offspring
of Marxists who infested NYC Universities during the 1930ties and who were
fanatical loyalists of Leon Trotsky after his exile to Mexico by Stalin.
Promoting democracy world-wide was the theme song of leftist incompetent
Woodrow Wilson as well as the catalyst for our present globalist focus.
They actively promoted/supported the Iraq War and remain humongous
fans of Bush, arguably the most incompetent buffoon to ever sit in the WH.
Principled Conservatism evolved in the Greece of Plato, being reinforced
by the Medieval Scholastics and later by the English Whigs; among them
Berkeley, Hume and Locke.
It hardly needs renewal w/the malarkey these neo-con hustlers offer.