There are few political pundits in America who have been through the firestorm that Dinesh D’Souza was forced to face after releasing two hit documentaries that delivered a broadside to progressives: “2016: Obama’s America” and its follow-up, “America: Imagine the World Without Her.”

Suddenly, he was convicted of one felony count of campaign finance violation of making illegal contributions in the name of others, and was railroaded into an immediate eight-month sentence in a community confinement center, five years’ probation, a $30,000 fine, extensive community service, and weekly therapy.

“When you’re making a movie about Hillary, it falls so naturally into the horror genre.”

But rather than being broken by this experience, D’Souza has come out swinging harder than ever at the left, by making his most entertaining documentary yet: “Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party.”

It’s being released in 1,600 theaters nationwide this weekend, bringing a damning yet surprisingly satirical look at both the Democrats’ many wrongdoings (including support for slavery and the eugenic policies of Planned Parenthood, and fighting women’s suffrage), and Hillary Clinton’s personal rise to power via numerous charges of corruption.

D’Souza discuss the new movie with LifeZette, and the interview can be heard directly here:

Question: Your previous movies were well-done, but this is a whole other level — almost like you’re now the conservative Michael Moore. How’d you decide to take such a humorous approach?
Answer: First, I’m chuckling at the Michael Moore comparison. Intellectually, his movies are a nullity, but he knows that people go to movies to be entertained. I know now, on my third time around the block, that I need to make a riveting, powerful, cinematically and emotionally powerful film, and I think we’ve done that.

So we have moved from a strict documentary format – my early film “2016” could have been shot with a camera off the shoulder, it was a traditional documentary — but this one feels like a feature film. More of a docudrama with a combination of comedy, drama, and even a little bit of horror because when you’re making a movie about Hillary, it falls so naturally into the horror genre.

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Question: You were railroaded into a prison sentence for a campaign finance violation. A lot of people would be scared and give up, but it seems to have emboldened you. And you learned in prison that the Democratic Party seems to operate much the same way as major criminal organizations.
Answer: I exceeded the campaign finance law by giving to the campaign of a college friend who was running for the Senate. The Obama administration unleashed the full fury of the Justice Department and FBI on me. I got locked up overnight for eight months in a confinement center.

Hillary said she didn’t mean to do it [improper use of email servers], that she didn’t intend to break the law. Well, I didn’t intend to break the law, nor do I imagine I sent a bad message in any way. There’s no person in American history who, absent corruption, was incarcerated for what I did. This was a miscarriage of justice.

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Now, I tried to turn lemons into lemonade and was with a whole bunch of very seasoned hoodlums, learned how crime is orchestrated and how gangs operate — and I applied that insight now to politics. The premise of this film is that the big criminals are still at large and that the system won’t pursue them because they run the system. Here we see Obama saying to Comey and Lynch: “Hillary’s my gal, stay away from her!” When you have the law in your back pocket, how can you expect justice to be done?

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Question: What is your number one hope for this film? Obviously, keep Hillary from winning the presidency?
Answer: I’m trying to do two other big things separate from telling them how to vote in the November election.

First, I’m trying to plant a conservative flag in Hollywood. I feel that the Left has become so dominant in Hollywood, mainstream media, and universities. To show that we can compete with the Left in its own strong territory is the first thing I’m trying to do.

The second is to educate people, especially young people and minorities, about the true nature of American history. My Obama movie four years ago wasn’t just about Obama, and this isn’t just about Hillary. It includes the whole sordid history of progressivism and how it was in bed with eugenics, forced sterilization, and fascism, and the history of the Democratic Party that’s committed one crime after another in American history and blamed it all on the South or other groups. I’m going to show that they’re disguising the true nature of history.

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Question: What do you feel about the current state of America, heading into the conventions — are you worried that things will turn violent?
Answer: I don’t really know what to expect. The attack on Trump will be he’s racist, homophobic, anti-women, he’s a fascist — our movie is directly relevant to all this and turns the tables on progressives by showing what was the true party that tried to suppress women’s suffrage and to this day condescends to and maintains minorities in position of forced servitude.

Question: Any concern that they’ll do something to you again? You’re very brave.
Answer:  What happened is they tried to knock me out, but they couldn’t. They wounded me, and they annoyed me, so now I’m deploying even more creativity, resources, and energy to lift the curtain on who these scandals actually are. This movie is no-holds-barred. We lay out the indictment against Hillary in a way that, in the end, the FBI refrained from doing.

Question: You were lucky guys in prison were kind to you. You got to talk with other elements of society you had not come across before. Is there hope that conservatives can win over minorities, and what’s the best way to do that?
Answer: Conservatism and the Republican Party developed as a party for the little guy. It was the party that ended slavery, the party for new immigrants who came to Ellis Island and tried to make their way up the ladder. The Republican Party is the party for the guy who’s trying to find the ladder of opportunity of which to climb. Republicans have a great message — but don’t know how to take this message abroad and put it out there. I’m a think-tank guy who writes books, but that’s the reason I’m making movies — it’s a way to reach a much wider audience. And reach people not only through the head but through the heart.

Visit www.hillarysamericathemovie.com to find out where the movie is playing at a theater near you.