Dinesh D’Souza is an convicted criminal (albeit a pardoned one) and adulterer who gets beaten down regularly on Twitter for the numerous false claims he makes about American history. No, naturally, CNSNews.com has decided to present him as an expert.
In a June 2 item, CNS managing editor Michael W. Chapman did just that:
While discussing Antifa’s role in the riots and looting in U.S. cities, conservative scholar and best selling author Dinesh D’Souza said the organization is the “true descendant” of radical left socialist paramilitary groups, such as Mussolini’s Black Shirts and Hitler’s Brown Shirts.
He added that Antifa has melded its Marxism with “identity politics,” such as “racial” or “gender” grievance, and this has produced a “kind of identity socialism.”
When asked about Antifa on The Ingraham Angle on Monday night, D’Souza said, “I think Antifa is the true descendant of the socialist regimes of 100 years ago – Mussolini’s Black Shirts, Hitler’s Brown Shirts. These are paramilitary that these socialist leaders needed in order to achieve political objectives that couldn’t be achieved any other way.”
Note the error in that last paragraph, in which D’Souza described Hitler and Mussolini as “socialist leaders.” In fact, Hitler was not a socialist, and neither was Mussolini’s fascist regime. Note that Chapman gave a pass to D’Souza’s falsehood.
Further, as has since been proven, Antifa has had only a very small role in the “riots and looting” in the wake of the death of George Floyd, and at least some of that violence is actually the work of right-wing extremists.
Also note that Chapman made no mention of D’Souza’s history of criminality, adultery and getting stuff wrong. Instead, he laughably described D’Souza as a “conservative scholar” and touting him as “the author of numerous books.”