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For about half a year, Emperor Tigerstar and I have been watching and reacting to decades of propaganda videos. The craziest attempt at history we'd watched in this series was the 2016 documentary, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. This separate video was not only warranted because of the movie’s hilariously inept attempt at “history” or the sheer amount of dishonesty it contains, but its current usage for denying history. In a way, this episode is kinda a debunk, but it's also an exploration of the documentary’s artistic value and the director’s strange obsessions. Dinesh D’Souza seems to believe his own disinformation and he’s managed to persuade enough lunatics into denying the party switch that it’s a real menace. I've put some care into editing it down and adding some entertainment.

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*Some sources on the party switch*
Jefferson Cowie, The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Princeton, N.Jer.: Princeton University Press, 2016). https://amzn.to/35sJX4w

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). https://amzn.to/34lFOhq

Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2019). https://amzn.to/2Zh3pxe

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Princeton, N.Jer.: Princeton University Press, 2017). https://amzn.to/2M2ol7j
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Connected videos
Party Switch: https://youtu.be/hBHHIJG8Rds
Lost Cause: https://youtu.be/5EOhXF5lNgQ
Reconstruction: https://youtu.be/bfgsBcI-fQw
playlist of my lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXIeBg-rugKMup9o8ohyEEL
Lincoln and sectionalism: https://youtu.be/Ff2AKILyi0o
playlist of pertinent political history: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUpI_fz-HRGdnlxQO0EBUUg
1920 vs 2020: https://youtu.be/MiyEiNvYAv0
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Chapters
0:00 intro and preview
4:31 myheritage
6:25 discussion before
10:08 watching first half
41:32 break
42:28 watching second half
1:12:38 discussion afterward
1:17:27 outro