In the time since, Socialism/Communism has failed miserably and now only exists in the satellite countries of Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. The Russians and the Chinese then began a "super spreader" form of capture and enforcement of neighboring countries and for roughly over 60 years over half of the world’s population lived under soul-crushing socialist/communist rule. With little to no proof this everyone-is-equal concept would ever hold water, the Chinese - led by Mao Zedong - adopted an exact, if not quite similar form of tyrannical oppression, and the seeds of socialism were sown.
Lenin - working from Marx’s "Das Kapital" text - appealed to the Russian masses’ collective disenchantment with a centuries’ old monarchy - and, with relatively little opposition - overthrew the largest and one of the oldest countries in the world.
Instead of waving a flag or beating the drum of American patriotism, D’Souza tracks the origins of Socialism/Marxism/Communism to their founding with stark, sober, clear-eyed assessment. was built on capitalism and the free-enterprise system and has survived the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and several recessions and doing so while defending these principals. These virtually indistinguishable approaches to government eventually fell out of favor in their countries of origin (the former Soviet Union in 1917 and China in 1949). Picking up where the 2018 " Death of a Nation" (2018) left-off, "Trump Card" spends the bulk of its 106 minutes covering the history of global Socialism and trying to figure out why this form of pie-in-the-sky government is so appealing to so many uninformed young Americans.įor any natural-born (or naturalized by choice) American citizen over the age of 50 or so, the idea of embracing Socialism (or its first cousin Communism) is abhorrent. He ended up serving time and being fined $30,000 over an infrequently enforced campaign finance law.ĭ’Souza eventually received a pardon in 2018 from President Donald Trump.
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While D’Souza’s latest feature "Trump Card" works well as a stand-alone movie, it also serves as the fifth installment in a series which began with the 2012 "2016: Obama’s America," a film so incendiary, it resulted in him being persecuted by the Obama administration. Unlike Moore, D’Souza favors the frequent use of dramatic re-enactments which detract somewhat from the documentary blueprint, yet he more than makes up for it by adhering to the facts and presenting an abundance of experts to support his arguments. Like Moore, D’Souza is preaching to his choir and is unlikely to ever convince entrenched Democrats to abandon ship, but he could snare a few independents still on the fence prior to next month’s general election.
***1/2 out of **** (3 and1/2 Out of 4 Stars)Ī constant irritant to the left (particularly those in the entertainment press), the India-born writer and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza is the conservative, less-slovenly version of Michael Moore.
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