Vindicating Dinesh D'Souza?

                Maybe we can start off here in agreement on one thing. Everyone....And I mean everyone.....agrees that Donald Trump is arrogant. No one denies that....and it is actually considered a virtue by many. Being arrogant in this case is acceptable....so might I ask your indulgence here to be a little bit arrogant myself in this post?
                We have all seen this scenario played out....a college professor....maybe history or art or something like that.....plays a movie for his or her class....and stops the film throughout to give his educated comments on the scene just shown. This afternoon I went to see the new Dinesh D'Souza film.....just released today....Vindicating Trump.
                It was well-done as most of D'Souza's documentaries are. The photography on some of the scenes of our capitol was particularly enjoyable. He got his message across....and the Trump loyalist will love the film. It was a small theater....only a dozen people at most....but they all clapped at the end.
                Having said that up front....I consider myself to be educated on who Donald Trump is. I am on book #104 right now on Donald Trump....books for him and against him and by him....(which really were not written by him)....and books on literally every aspect and decade of his life. I have watched dozens of rallies on the computer over the years....and I go to films like this when they come out. So....if I were the professor in a political science class...and showed this film to my students....I would stop it about every ten minutes to inform the students that what just saw and heard....was not in fact true....or was greatly exaggerated....and I would explain in detail why it was not factually true....or was greatly exaggerated.
               That is the life we lead in politics today.....on both sides of the aisle.....nothing has to be true....all it needs is a morsel of truth...and there can be served a feast of misleading information. So to summarize....it was well-done.....it will certainly serve its purpose....but it was also grossly deceptive at times.
                I sat in an end seat away from others....and was able to type notes on my cell phone without anyone noticing it....one word notes so that I could remember later what to point out.....and here is that short commentary....
                Please do not take this first comment further than how I am intending it to be taken. Leni Riefenstahl was....(you probably know this already)....a famous female German film producer. Her most famous work was the now infamous 1935 propaganda film....The Triumph Of The Will. The purpose of the film was to instill in the German people the will and determination to make Germany great again. It was very effective in achieving its goals. As filmmaking goes....it was considered ground-breaking and visually striking. Well....that is what came to my mind with D'Sousa'a film.....not Germany....but the visuals....even though they were misleading!
                 There was some background music throughout the film that every time I heard it it reminded my of the 1973 instrumental....Tubular Bells....the opening theme from the movie....The Exorcist. Does that mean anything?
                 At one point later in the film....in a visual message against what the Democrats were trying to do to Trump....it took Trump's face and slowly transposed Hitler's over it....but earlier in the film....it did the same thing....where Abraham Lincoln's face was slowly transformed into Donald Trump's. There were numerous other references to the comparison between Lincoln and Trump in the film.....including Ford's Theater.
                 God's providential hand was again used to describe what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania....and another time Trump was described as 'turning over tables' just as Jesus had done in the Temple. You know I have never seen the Clint Eastwood film....referenced in the film....Pale Rider....the 1985 Western mega-hit....but I may have to watch it tonight. So I did read about it just now.....a man arrives in a troubled town on a pale horse....(from Revelation)....and he wears a 'collar' and they call him....Preacher.....and he brings death to all the bad guys....and then rides off in the sunset. So that is Trump I guess.
                 Is the D'Souza film racist? You can make up your own minds. The most despicable character in the whole film is a heavy-set female....with short hair....and piercings.
                What I am going to write here....I have said for decades....while Donald Trump was doing his thing elsewhere....and I've commented as such in a 2021 post. The Democrats have always 'found' extra votes in urban areas....when they needed them. This goes back at least to John Kennedy's primaries and general election victories. Thirty years ago we conservatives would tell each other that we needed to win an election by at least five points to make up for the Democrat's....'canvassing'....I'll use that word....urban areas to get someone to sign on the dotted line. In that respect the 2021 election was probably decided by that 5% that Republicans did not get!
                So....Dinesh D'Souza gave ample time near the end of the film to describe how the DNC harvests votes. This segment of the film was good....but the rest....was a tribute in a way to the filmmaking methods of Leni Riefenstahl.