First published 2018
Dinesh D'Souza challenges the claim that America operates as a white supremacist society. He argues that Democrats, not Republicans, threaten American principles by constructing a vast welfare system modeled after Southern plantations. D'Souza traces this pattern from the antebellum period, when slaveholding elites used plantations to control labor and secure political loyalty through dependency. Northern Democrats adopted similar tactics, building political machines that exchanged government benefits for immigrant votes. According to D'Souza, modern Democrats have expanded this approach into what he calls a multiracial plantation system, creating separate dependency structures for different ethnic groups while targeting whites as the source of racial problems. The book reexamines historical figures including Van Buren, FDR, and LBJ through this lens, positioning racism as a Democratic rather than Republican phenomenon.
Genres: american, political-science, politics, 21st-century, american-history
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: social-commentary
Setting: America, Southern
Period: Antebellum, Modern
336 pages · Hardcover · All Points Books
Content warnings: racism