Is D'Souza's "Death" Alienating the Republican's Biggest Voting Block?

Dinesh D'Souza's "Death of a Nation" is turning out to be a flop. In fact, it is his coldest opening yet as a documentary filmmaker.

The Wrap.Com reports:

"After making a name for himself with documentaries taking on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza returned to theaters this weekend with “Death of a Nation,” a new film in praise of President Donald Trump. But D’Souza’s fourth film has posted the lowest opening weekend of his career, with $2.3 million from 1,032 screens for a per screen average of $2,248.

Released two months after Trump granted D’Souza a presidential pardon for making illegal campaign contributions in 2014 — a charge for which the filmmaker pled guilty — “Death of a Nation” compares Trump to Abraham Lincoln"

I must not confess I have not watched this movie but I have read enough stories about it and have seen all the trailers. This is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

"Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? is a 2018 American political documentary film by conservative political commentator Dinesh D'Souza. In the documentary, D'Souza positively compares the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump to the 16th President Abraham Lincoln, and indicates that the Democratic Party was critical of both Presidents, as well as the Democrats' apparent similarities to the Nazi Party."

Here is the problem, Dinesh D'Souza is an immigrant who was born in India and came with his parents to the United States. He has what you might call a "Cliff Notes" version of history. He has no natural tie to the land but somehow he envisions that Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump are the same and he is wrong. The only thing the two presidents have in common is tariffs and even on this the two men differ. Under Lincoln the South was paying 80% of America's taxes through import tariffs that were being used for projects almost exclusively in the North. Trump is trying to use import tariffs to level the playing field of the world market and bring prosperity to all of the United States (not just one section).

For instance the film is supposed to be a defense of Conservatism but by comparing President Trump to President Lincoln he proves he has no clue about the cause in which he is attempting to defend. If he had he would have realized that in the time of Lincoln the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the Liberals.

The title of his latest film is no coincidence either. U.S. News recently reported that D'Souza "said the Democratic Party was historically the party of the Ku Klux Klan and segregation." D'Souza no doubt thinks his latest flick is a brilliant rebuttal to D.W. Griffith's 1915 film "Birth of a Nation".

Yesteryear's Democrats are today's Republicans and form a voting block that spans the Southern states. Before Dinesh D'Souza makes one more film or gives one more interview he needs to do some research and come to the realization that he is pissing of a large Republican voting block. Perhaps this is why his film flopped.

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