Excellent walk through US history

Dinesh D’Souza delivers a well sourced and essential view of US historical politics that fills in the gaps left in the popular narrative. D’Souza traces the history of slavery through the founding of the democratic party, shows how the republican party and Lincoln fought racism and slavery leading to and through the civil war, debunks the “big lie” of the two parties switching, and goes in to argue that the democratic parties racist roots continued, although with different means, through FDR, LBJ, to Obama and how it is manifested today. Whether or not you agree with his politics this is an essential read to get a better understanding of today’s political climate. ( )

D'Souza takes on the claim of the political left that Republicans are the party of bigotry and racism by tracing the history of the two parties from Lincoln to the present, disproving the Democratic claim as patently false. He shows how Lincoln proved the anti-slavery views of the founders and that the Declaration of Independence by no means defends slavery or racism. D'Souza also shows that the Democratic left, developed to defend slavery, has not changed its goal of living off of a plantation system, but merely changed its tactics in attaining it. D'Souza claims that the Democratic party maintains its power by providing for blacks and other minority groups just enough to keep them in poverty and dependent on the Democratic party, thereby securing their votes. ( )