I had the impression that the (now pardoned) Dinesh D'Souza had become an unhinged jerk only later in life. Remember
this quote from Max Boot?:
The
career of Dinesh D’Souza is indicative of the downward trajectory of
conservatism. He made his name with a well-regarded 1991 book denouncing
political correctness and championing liberal education. Then he wrote a
widely panned 1995 book claiming that racism was no more, and it was
all downhill from there. In 2014 he pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws. Now, as the Daily Beast notes,
he has become a conspiratorial crank who has suggested that the white
supremacist rally in Charlottesville was staged by liberals, that Barack
Obama is a “gay Muslim” and Michelle Obama is a man and that Adolf
Hitler, who sent 50,000 homosexuals to prison, “was NOT anti-gay.”
He managed to sink even lower last week by mocking stunned Parkland
school-shooting survivors after the Florida legislature defeated a bill
to ban assault weapons: “Worst news since their parents told them to get
summer jobs.”
But I see from this Mother Jones article from 2014, being widely tweeted today, that he was well and truly a jerk even in college:
Remember How Dinesh D’Souza Outed Gay Classmates—and Thought It Was Awesome?
As to Trump's decision to use his pardon power, David Roberts' comment sounds right:
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