Dinesh D’Souza recently talking about his new movie, Vindicating Trump, said he “was trying to think to myself who has been a figure, that I can think of, that on the one hand has people who are so loyal to him they would take a bullet for him, and on the other hand, have people who at least secretly wish that somebody else would put a bullet in him, right?”
“That’s not a normal situation,” he noticed. “You wouldn’t say that that would be true of Reagan, even of Jimmy Carter.”
“You have to go all the way back to Abraham Lincoln to find that kind of divide,” D’Souza revealed. “Now, the difference between Lincoln and Trump is that in Lincoln’s case, the divide was not over him, it was not over the man. It was over the issue, it was over slavery, it was over the divide in the country, over that.”
“With Trump, it is over the man, and therefore, in this movie, I realized we need to bring out Trump the man. I cannot duck that issue. This is not just about policy.”
“Even Republicans who are reluctant about Trump, their hesitation is based on Trump the man, and on a kind of, I think, very one-sided and limited perception of his character.”
“So let’s talk about that for a moment, because I’ll hear people say things like, ‘Well, he’s a playboy.’ And I say to myself, well, he was a playboy in his younger days, I think he actually admits this, but no one’s saying he’s a playboy now. So the most you can say about him, the worst, he’s a reformed playboy. Okay, what else? ‘He’s an egomaniac.’ Also true.”
“Trump loves praise, he loves public praise. Interestingly, in private, he’s more self-deprecating,” D’Souza observes. “If you saw him on Gutfeld recently, you see this kind of whimsical Trump. He’s not somebody who you have to keep kissing his feet and flattering the dauphin or the prince in a courtier style, not at all, not in person, but he does like public praise.”
“But in a way, I think with Trump, his egotism is a sort of protection. It’s a wall. It insulates him because, again, a normal person would be just destroyed by the kind of attack that Trump gets. And then Trump’s virtues, he’s magnanimous.”
“Even though a lot of billionaires kind of secede from the middle class, Trump doesn’t do that. There’s an ordinariness to him. He has a curiosity about people. You’ll never get someone who’s a doorman or someone who works as a waiter in one of his hotels ever say a bad word about him. He’s very nice to them. He knows their family, he asks about how their kids are doing, he’s that kind of a guy. He’s obviously very kind and good to his family, they adore him.”
“But above all, one virtue that he has, that I want to stress, is his supreme virtue of courage, because that is a rare virtue,” D’Souza notes. “Aristotle says it’s the highest virtue, and it’s in fact the virtue that makes all the other virtues possible, because courage gives you the strength to do all the other virtues, so it’s an active virtue. Trump has it in spades. I think it is a virtue somewhat lacking, by and large, in the Republican party, particularly when we’re facing people who want to take away our basic liberties.”
“It’s almost like we need a tough guy on our side to take on the tough-guy regime that has been mobilized against us. Trump’s willing to do it, and for this reason, I think that in this hour of our country’s history, he is not only the best man, in some ways he’s the perfect guy.”
Vindicating Trump: The Story Line
The story line of the film is to show that Trump’s enemies—the Left and the Democrats—are the real Caesar. They are the ones creating lawlessness at the highest levels of government. They despise Trump because he is the only one who has the power and the will to stop them.
The film features interviews with Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, and Alina Habba, Trump’s attorney. It also has an in-depth one-on-one interview with Trump himself.
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Kudos to D’Douza, but wiil those who despise the man they believe they know go to see it? 🙂
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If Trump didn’t love this country and its people, he would have moved to places like Hungary, Poland and Argentina. He could buy or build a resort with a golf course there. They have libertarian or conservative leaders.
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I absolutely admire D’Sousa: he goes out on a limb when he knows what is true, even having been imprisoned for it. He’s loyal and fearless, and hence able to see those vital qualities in Donald Trump, who like many of us in our lives, are light years away from the persons we used to be. Many will go to see it just because they trust D’Sousa, and his persistence over the course of these years will pay off, as he says, “in spades.” You’ve gotta be a risk taker to get anything good done. You reap that way. It’s beginning to come in for me now, after years of waiting and floundering, falling and looking like a total failure. My brother says I’m a risk taker, like Dad, he says. He gave me a refrigerator sticker that says, “Oh, I don’t dwell on my mistakes. I’ve got family for that.” Well, we have got to take a look at the man Donald Trump has become, by God’s grace. If God can forgive him his past, we can. He loves America.
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Ha! What a great refrigerator sticker! Agree on the risk taker!
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D’Sousa gets it right most of the time. Yes, Trump has a huge ego, but to be successful one must have one.
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