This is a special episode devoted to a single topic: socialism. Drawing on his recent book and documentary film Trump Card, Dinesh asks the sobering question: are we becoming the United States of Socialism? Dinesh contends that socialism is the most discredited idea since slavery, so how to explain its amazing twenty-first century comeback? Dinesh outlines the socialist agenda, which goes beyond economic confiscation, and contrasts the socialist dream with the American dream. Dinesh traces how socialism came to America riding on the Democratic donkey. The Left says it wants the Scandinavian model for America, but Dinesh (joined by his wife Debbie) shows that the Left’s real model is Venezuela. Finally, Dinesh reveals the roots of the Left’s cultural repression, showing how all forms of socialism—even democratic socialism—inevitably end in tyranny.
Dinesh D’Souza is an author and filmmaker. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was a senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He also served as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of many bestselling books, including “Illiberal Education,” “What’s So Great About Christianity,” “America: Imagine a World Without Her,” “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” “Death of a Nation,” and “United States of Socialism.” His documentary films “2016: Obama’s America,” “America,” “Hillary’s America,” “Death of a Nation,” and “Trump Card” are among the highest-grossing political documentaries of all time. He and his wife Debbie are also executive producers of the acclaimed feature film “Infidel.”
