{"id":1178709,"date":"2022-01-01T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1178709"},"modified":"2022-01-01T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T03:04:40","slug":"democrat-strategist-cynical-elites-and-politicians-divide-democrats-and-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-strategist-cynical-elites-and-politicians-divide-democrats-and-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Strategist: &#039;Cynical Elites and Politicians&#039; Divide Democrats and Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-strategist-cynical-elites-and-politicians-divide-democrats-and-republicans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1178709&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-145152803-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrat strategist Justin Horwitz told <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> that he has found that Republicans and Democrats have far more in common than it seems, but \u201ccynical elites and politicians,\u201d as well as fringe activists and corporate media outlets, have made it seem as if the opposite is true, all for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found is after having these conversations \u2014 &nbsp;with Republicans, with people we thought we really don\u2019t agree with or have huge differences with \u2014 we\u2019re finding that we have a lot more in common than anybody realizes,\u201d Horwitz told <em>Breitbart News Saturday. <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd frankly we have cynical elites and politicians who are trying to weaponize our differences in order to focus on what divides us rather than what unites us, and I really do believe it\u2019s that simple, that we agree on most issues,\u201d he said, explaining that the media \u201cweaponizes\u201d and magnifies differences, \u201cwhether it be race, ethnicity, socio-economic class \u2014 &nbsp;that that really is the root of our disunity in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to elaborate on what these elites are weaponizing, specifically, to divide the country, he used a strong border as an example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really do believe that both Democrats and Republicans believe in a strong border, southern and northern. Right? That we are a nation of laws,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen Trump stands on stage and he says, \u2018We are a nation of laws. We need a border,\u2019 he\u2019s not wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, the problem, Horwitz said, is \u201ccynical absolutists\u201d in both parties. Far-left democrats, for example, will say the entire concept of a border is racist, which Horwitz noted is false. The Democrat strategist added that a&nbsp;majority of Democrats he talks to say a strong border is not controversial, but activists on the fringe are making the most noise, making it seem as if that is a majority view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou literally have a few fringe actors who are making all of the noise\u201d on both sides, he said, noting that the \u201cforgotten man\u201d is not being properly represented.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another issue both sides agree with, he said, is addressing crime, using Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s (D) Chicago as a prime example.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Calling Lightfoot a \u201cdisgrace\u201d and perhaps the \u201cworst mayor in the history of Chicago,\u201d Horwitz said Chicago serves as another example of fringe leftists muddying the waters, as the majority of the city knows what the issues are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then you have all these cynical activists making all the noise again, right? And they\u2019re saying defund defund defund and that\u2019s all the police hear, and it\u2019s demoralizing them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the Democrat Party needs to stand up to the fringe and say they do not have room for such rhetoric, particularly now. Lightfoot, who will require people to show both a vaccination card and a driver\u2019s license before entering an indoor restaurant, is \u201ceverything wrong with the Democratic Party,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Those fringe opinions, Horwtiz said, continue to get magnified as each side attacks them for tactical reasons,&nbsp;weaponizing the most extreme in both parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gets us both thinking that we have way more \u2014 our differences are too great to reconcile, when in reality it couldn\u2019t be further from the truth,\u201d Horwitz remarked, attributing the seeming divide to the failure of corporate media and \u201ccareerist politicians who cynically weaponize things like identity for personal gain.\u201d That is why he started having these conversations in the first place, which have made him realize that Democrats and Republicans&nbsp;have more in common than widely believed.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Horwitz said he has received pushback for daring to have these conversations and engage with people across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you even listened to Breitbart? Have you ever even read the reporting outside of what CNN has clipped?\u201d he says to his critics, and expressed the importance of both sides holding every politician accountable, asserting that it would be far more effective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you need is a true working-class, bipartisan grassroots movement to hold our politicians accountable so they start working for We the People for the first time in the last 50 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t bend or fold to a group of loud activists who say \u2018Don\u2019t engage with other people in your country who disagree with you.\u2019 That\u2019s madness,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat strategist Justin Horwitz told Breitbart News Saturday that he has found that Republicans and Democrats have far more in common than it seems, but \u201ccynical elites and politicians,\u201d as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}