1. So this @weeklystandard profile of Dinesh D'Souza (by @aliceblloyd is very good & really illuminates his trajectory:https://www.weeklystandard.com/alice-b-lloyd/american-politics-has-caught-up-with-right-wing-populist-dinesh-dsouza …
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6. Still! With Illiberal Education got some centrist and center-right publications to take him seriously: the Atlantic, the American Scholar, TNR (alas!). He was still a simulacrum-intellectual but gained surprising respectability.
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7. But D'Souza couldn't keep up the act long. You can take the boy out of Dartmouth Review but not Dartmouth Review out of the book. He quickly reverted to form, as I note here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/151305/dinesh-dsouza-right-wing-troll-since-college …
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8. But any study of how trolling came to be the dominant lingo of the American right has to give pride of place to undergraduate newspapers like The Dartmouth Review (and their predecessor The American Spectator). That's the true incubation ward.
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You had an entire guest spot on the Majority Report on this topic. I remember realizing just how worse(negatively better?) than average that D'Souza was than his peers that day.
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Please use Mr. D'Souza's proper and correct title in all future writings: Admitted Convicted Felon Dinesh D'souza. Thank you.
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