Trump Card (2020)

Dinesh D'Souza: Self

Quotes 

• Alexandria Ocasio Cortez : [archive footage]  No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.

  Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  The most successful entrepreneurs don't just supply wants and needs; they anticipate them. Nobody ever wrote a letter to Steve Jobs telling him to make a phone that would do email and take photographs, play music and show movies. He invented it and built it before we knew we couldn't live without it. This is capitalism's trump card. It encourages creativity and empathy, and puts them at the service of the wants and needs of people. The inequality the socialist left despises isn't created by entrepreneur. It's created by us. The proud boast of democratic socialism is that it puts the people in charge of the economy. What control do you have over the post office or the DMV? We vote in elections every two or four years, but as consumers, we exercise our choices daily, directly through the market. The free market is far more reflective of popular consent than democratic socialism. We didn't have to extend democracy from the political to the economic sphere, because we already have it. Capitalism, not socialism, is the true form of social justice.

• Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  Socialists appear to be a little silly. Check out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

  Alexandria Ocasio Cortez : [archive footage]  Its funny you ask this, because I was reading today about how Milton Keynes, a famous, uh, economist...

  Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  There's economist Milton Friedman and there's economist John Maynard Keynes, but there's no Milton Keynes. She can't even get the guy's name right.

• Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  Treason, division and the politics of fear and exclusion. That is their socialist dream for America.

• Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  The socialist left and the Democrats want us to grovel, to make us into worms. They want us to repeat what they say and believe it, even if it's two plus two equals five. The British writer George Orwell, himself a man of the left, recognized that all forms of socialism become totalitarian. In his dystopian novel, 1984, lies pass for truth, freedom is defined as slavery, and the main character, Winston, is ground into dust by the all-powerful state, Big Brother.

• Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  Lincoln was a moderate man who found himself in an immoderate situation. The Democratic Party in the 1850s had become gangsterized. Lincoln realized he would have to do things differently. Early in the war, the Confederate passed an order that every Black Union soldier captured would be executed. In response, Lincoln signed an executive order.

  Abraham Lincoln : [as he signs an executive order]  It is therefore ordered that for every soldier in the United States killed in violation of the laws of war, a rebel soldier shall be executed. Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863.

  Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  Why would a moderate man sign such an order? Because he recognized that he had to do to them what they were doing to him. Otherwise, they would never stop.

• Dinesh D'Souza : [narrating]  A specter is haunting America. A specter of socialism, corruption and the deep state. America is divided. Capitalism or Socialism. Free markets or state control. Innovation and wealth creation or stagnation and poverty. They have a dream, a socialist dream, where we are strangers in our own land.