Fox News guest: “Passing federal laws against lynching is like passing federal laws against witch burning or federal laws against cannibalism”
Dinesh D'Souza: Lynching “is hardly a national or social problem. So there is a certain kind of dementia”
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From the March 29, 2022, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Dinesh, they have a very, very dismal view of America in 2022. What happened to hope and change?
DINESH D'SOUZA (GUEST): As far as I'm aware, there hasn't been a lynching in America in the old style for at least 40 years. This used to be a problem in American history. By the way, the party of lynching was the Democrats. FDR, for example, was able to cement his alliance with southern Democrats by blocking anti-lynching laws, all of this of course was completely swept under the rug.
But, to me, today, to be passing federal laws against lynching is like passing federal laws against witch burning or federal laws against cannibalism, I suppose theoretically, you could say it's occurring somewhere, someplace. But this is hardly a national or social problem. So there is a certain kind of dementia, I think, here. In not only doing this, but then patting yourself on the back as if you're taking a courageous, moral stance.