“2,000 Mules” by Dinesh D’Souza was a lie

The final repudiation of ‘2000 Mules’

Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’ Book Abruptly Postponed Due to ‘Publishing Error’

Dinesh is being sued….

2022:

1,700 racist lawmakers highlight the ubiquity of slaveholding in Congress

“To be sure, the politics of some slaveholding members of Congress shifted over time. There were slaveholding Whigs who became Democrats as the Whig Party disintegrated and the Democratic Party emerged as slavery’s leading political champion, and there were slaveholders of varying stripes who either turned against slavery before the Civil War and became Republicans or determined after emancipation that their political prospects would be brighter by aligning with the Republican Party. But correlating slaveholding with party identification eludes nearly every simple or straightforward narrative.”

No, the Democratic Party didn’t create the Ku Klux Klan

How the ‘Party of Lincoln’ Won Over the Once Democratic South

“Democratic defectors, known as the “Dixiecrats,” started a switch to the Republican party in a movement that was later fueled by a so-called “Southern strategy.””

Republicans, NOT Democrats, want to keep Confederate Statues in place

From Ronald Reagan in Philadelphia, Miss., to Donald Trump in Tulsa, a pattern of racially divisive politics

Here Are The Six Current Members of Congress Who Voted Against Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

From ‘Ku Kluxism’ to Trumpism

IF YOU CHARGE FACTS WITH BIAS, HISTORIANS ARE GUILTY

“Right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza has made a cottage industry of suggesting that a conspiracy exists among professional historians looking to paint the Democratic Party as, historically, the party of equal rights when, he claims, the Republican Party has a better claim to that mantel. (The overwhelming consensus among historians is that Democratic legislators and voters became pro–civil rights in roughly the middle of the 20th century.)”

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/if-you-charge-facts-with-bias-historians-are-guilty

Two Facts that Dinesh Forgets to Mention in this constant desire to paint Democrats as racist bigots.

1) The Confederate Government intentionally did not have Political Parties, so no Democrats existed in the South during the Civil War as an organized party and the original founders of the KKK in Pulaski, Tennessee did not lay claim to being Democrats

The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics.  By George C. Rable.

” In discussing why the South lost the Civil War, many historians claim that the Confederacy not having a defined party system as being a big reason.  Due to the lack of parties, the Southern government was severely weaker, and therefore could not handle the burdens that warfare placed on the government.  However, in George C. Rable’s book, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, he argues that the South did have a pre-party political climate.  This book covers from Confederate secession to the fall of the Confederacy, and largely focuses on the areas of Richmond, Georgia, and North Carolina.  Rable contends that the Southerners desired to achieve a perfect Republican system in modeling their government.  Therefore, the South sought a nation in which no organized political parties existed.  Organized political parties were viewed as a corrupt component of the old American system, which is why they must be eliminated.”

http://personal.tcu.edu/swoodworth/Rable-CR.htm

2) 1860. 1948 and 1968 Presidential Elections illustrate how Dixiecrats were NOT Democrats. (Hint? LBJ signed the 1964 Civil Rights act and he was NOT a Republican!)

https://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/

https://www.270towin.com/1948_Election/

https://www.270towin.com/1968_Election/

I Watched Dinesh D’Souza’s New Movie with the Travis County GOP

“D’Souza is lying to his audiences on a vast scale, making them more immune to a shared reality. There’s ultimately little that separates him from Alex Jones, who also posits the existence of a vast conspiracy responsible for all the worst crimes of the 20th century. What is there to do about this? The only thing I can think is to encourage people who know better to stop promoting him. Why is the Travis County GOP, like countless Republican party organizations across the country, using this movie to make money, and relying on D’Souza’s brand to burnish its own?”

https://www.texasobserver.org/i-watched-dinesh-dsouzas-new-movie-with-the-travis-county-gop/

KKK and Republican Party

Ku Klux Klan in Alabama from 1915-1930

Klan-backed politicians, such as Graves and Black, also distanced themselves from and often launched verbal attacks against the Klan. As its membership and public support faded, the Klan’s political influence dwindled. During the 1928 presidential election, the Klan unsuccessfully tried to convince Alabama voters to support Republican candidate Herbert Hoover instead of Democratic nominee Alfred Smith, a Roman Catholic backed by the state’s Big Mule/Black Belt coalition. The Klan also backed an unsuccessful slate of candidates during the 1930 statewide elections and was effectively neutralized as a political force in Alabama. By the start of the Great Depression, the Klan in Alabama and nationwide had virtually ceased to exist as a national force.

The Second Ku Klux Klan In Kansas City: Rise And Fall Of A White Nationalist Movement

“Some historians of the Klan believe the hooded order served as a large-scale organizing force for preexisting political divisions within a city. It is no coincidence that the traditional neighborhood leaders who joined the Klan had led the Armourdale Business Men’s Club, the Sixth Ward Civic Club, the London Heights Improvement Association, the Argentine Activities Club, and the Riverview Booster Club. It is also no coincidence that Klansmen did not lead citywide service or business organizations such as the Rotary Club or the Chamber of Commerce. In this light, the Klan’s takeover of the Republican County Central Committee in 1926 wasn’t just a victory for the KKK, but a victory for a faction of the party and the city that felt it had been betrayed by big business leaders who saw the city’s fortunes linked with Kansas City, Missouri.”

The History of Hate in Indiana: How the Ku Klux Klan took over Indiana’s halls of power

“Whether the Klan exerted political influence because its membership grew large, or whether its membership grew because of its political influence is a chicken-or-egg question, Safianow said. But either way, Indiana’s Klan by the mid-1920s could claim politicians ranging from local officeholders all the way up to Governor Edward L. Jackson, along with the majority of both houses of the General Assembly.

Though Stephenson first ran for office in Indiana as a Democrat, the Klan eventually aligned itself with the Republican Party, which controlled most of the state at the time.

“Many politicians saw election victory via the Klan,” Madison said. “The Klan was very active in political campaigns and elections and government. They made a list of candidates, and a candidate was approved or not approved by the Ku Klux Klan. Democrats tended not to get the approval of the Ku Klux Klan. Some stood up, most stayed silent out of fear of alienating their voters.”

Perhaps even more than its actual political power, Madison said the fear the Klan was able to induce allowed it intimidate its opposition into silence.”

Study: The KKK helped Republicans win the South

Ku Klux Klan activism in the 1960s is linked to the South’s swing to the Republican Party.

How social media spread a historical lie

Did the Ku Klux Klan March at the 1924 Democratic National Convention?

A Teachable Moment: Dinesh D’Souza Refuses to Take Back False Claim about Republicans Owning Slaves in 1860 (UPDATED)

23 maps that explain how Democrats went from the party of racism to the party of Obama

Ku Klux Klan not founded by the Democratic Party

Fox guest falsely claims Republicans didn’t own slaves and had nothing to do with the Ku Klux Klan

More Dinesh No-Basis-In-History Stories:

7 of Dinesh D’Souza’s most shameful moments

Well Said! Dinesh has no knowledge of either History or Research – just make things up to inflame the Trump base with no basis in truth or reality.

Dinesh D’Souza Resigns Presidency of The King’s College

The King’s College (New York City)