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No he doesn’t. He does a massive motte and bailey, but that is essentially what he believes. That quote is literally DR3. I was around on TRS forums when DR3 became a meme. Anything that isn’t what I described or that quote is not the original DR3. He believes that if those racist Dems who opposed the Civil Rights Act and integration were reanimated today, they would vote for Kamala instead of Trump. They would wake up and be super excited to discriminate against whites like the Democrats do today. They would be allies with blue haired anti-white Antifa people because they would be united by racism, even if the racism is now in the complete opposite direction. If you believe that too, then you also believe in the meme DR3.
You can’t say he doesn’t actually believe that because that is the thesis he is trying to prove and the quote he chose out of everything in the book to summarize it. He has also been doing DR3 for 30 years now. There’s too many interviews, articles, and books by him doing DR3 to say he doesn’t believe that. He is the OG of DR3. If he believed something different, he should have said the thesis was something different.
I'm not reading D'souza again so if you say he was motte and baileying I believe you, but like I said, I haven't met any ordinary republicans who think that's what dr3 means. And the meme has changed if D'souza is motte and baileying, so I'm going to stick to telling people not to use the rdr3 - if they are using ogdr3 I'll tell them captain planet villains don't actually exist irl.
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