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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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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Also during this time, his reputation with conservative Christians grew to the point of being named president of a Christian college, providing an early glimpse of the marriage between “right-wing prank culture” and conservative (usually white) evangelicalism that gave us Trump
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