The Fascist Roots of the American Left

By Dinesh D'Souza

In 1925 the Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing spoke out against the repressive political climate of Weimar Germany.

Although Lessing’s explicit target was the cravenness of the Weimar regime of Paul von Hindenburg, his real target was the emerging power of Nazism, and he blamed the government for yielding to it.

The Nazis recognized immediately the threat posed by Lessing. Adolf Hitler youth at Lessing’s University of Hanover formed a “committee against Lessing.” They encouraged students to boycott his lectures.

Nazi youth then showed up and disrupted Lessing’s classes. Lessing was forced to give up his academic chair the following year.

In his account of what happened, Lessing later wrote that he could do nothing to prevent being “shouted down, threatened and denigrated” by student activists.

He was helpless, he said, “against the murderous bellowing of youngsters who accept no individual responsibilities but pose as spokesman for a group or an impersonal ideal, always talking in the royal ‘we’ while hurling personal insults … and claiming that everything is happening in the name of what’s true, good and beautiful.”

This was fascism, German style, in the 1920s.

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Dinesh D'Souza on "How Obama Thinks"

I have heard some hate and discontent being raised from some of our progressive friends from the left regarding Dinesh D'Souza's most recent essay published on Forbes.com regarding President Obama and how he thinks.  I finally got around to reading the article and found it to be very insightful and quite brilliant.  Whereas I have heard cries of "racism" and other such rhetoric from the progressive front, I found nothing within the article to substantiate that claim. 

Quite the contrary, I think Mr. D'Souza did an excellent job in his research of the story and was able to articulate a very convincing theory as to what motivates our president in some of his more bizarre actions of governance.  On the whole, I think D'Souza absolutely nailed it in his explanation.

I would highly recommend reading the somewhat lengthy article and see if you do not agree.

How Obama ThinksThe President isn't exactly a socialist. So what's driving his hostility to private enterprise? Look to his roots.  By Dinesh D'Souza