Death of a nation : plantation politics and the making of the Democratic Party / Dinesh D'Souza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Souza, Dinesh, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratic Party (U.S.).

Welfare state--United States--History.

Welfare state.

Plantation life--Southern States--History.

Plantation life.

History.

Southern States.

Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 318 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : All Points Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, [2018]

Summary:

Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? Dinesh D'Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a massive nanny state modeled on the Southern plantation system. This sweeping alternative history of the Democratic Party goes back to its foundations in the antebellum South. The slaveholding elite devised the plantation as a means of organizing labor and political support. It was a mini welfare state, a cradle to grave system that bred dependency and punished any urge to independence. This model impressed northern Democrats, inspiring the political machines that traded government handouts for votes from ethnic immigrant blocs. Today's Democrats have expanded to a multiracial plantation of ghettos for blacks, barrios for Latinos, and reservations for Native Americans. Whites are the only holdouts resisting full dependency, and so they are blamed for the bigotry and racial exploitation that is actually perpetrated by the left. Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past, reinterprets the roles of figures like Van Buren, FDR and LBJ, and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left.

Contents:

Preface: On gaining and lowing a country

Introduction: Who is killing America?

Dilemma of the plantation: The antislavery founding

Party of enslavement: The psychology of the Democratic master class

Urban plantation: Martin Van Buren and the creation of the Northern political machine

The plantation in crisis: How Democrats north and south fought to extend slavery

Progressive plantation: White supremacy as a weapon of reenslavement

The state as big house: What FDR learned from Fascism and Nazism

Civil rights and wrongs: LBJ, Nixon and the myth of the southern strategy

Multicultural plantations: Expanding the culture of dependency

Holdouts: Democrats and the problem of white people

Emancipation: how American nationalism can save the country.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.

Released in conjunction with the political documentary Death of a nation: can we save America a second time?

ISBN:

9781250163776

1250163773

OCLC:

1044737316

Publisher Number:

99977723926