{"id":1198114,"date":"2022-01-07T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198114"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:19:32","slug":"exclusive-dennis-prager-the-left-loves-big-government-because-they-love-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-dennis-prager-the-left-loves-big-government-because-they-love-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Dennis Prager: The Left Loves Big Government Because &#039;They Love Power&#039;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fexclusive-dennis-prager-the-left-loves-big-government-because-they-love-power%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=1198114&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\/Dennis-Prager-Politicon17-getty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">PragerU founder and radio host Dennis Prager told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that what divides the right and the left is the love of power. \u201cThe left [loves] big government because they love power,\u201d Prager said, adding that&nbsp;not wanting power over anyone disqualifies one \u201cfrom being a leftist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow that he changed from Democrat to Republican when he was in his 30s, after he heard former President Ronald Reagan say that government is not the solution, it\u2019s the problem.<\/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>Marlow and Prager sat down for a conversation&nbsp;at Turning Point USA\u2019s recent AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I understood by then that it was truer than even Ronald Reagan understood,\u201d Prager said. \u201c[Reagan] was referring to America, and he\u2019s entirely right. But I realized \u2014 because I was a student of genocide and totalitarianism in my graduate work \u2014 big governments produced all the genocides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have genocide without big government,\u201d the PragerU founder affirmed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI hate big governments,\u201d Prager continued. \u201cAnd the left loves them, because they love power. I don\u2019t want power over anyone. That&nbsp;disqualifies me from being a leftist. I have no desire to control you. I am so not a candidate for the left. I want to leave you alone and you to leave me alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow noted that \u201cyou&nbsp;do see it with what\u2019s going on with the masks \u2014 people on the left really do enjoy telling you to put your mask on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey almost savor it, and it is a love of power, which is very \u2014 it is a big divide, I think, from the left and right,\u201d Marlow said.<\/p>\n<p>Prager concurred, stating, \u201cIt is a huge divide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to divide the world between those who go slowly in the left lane, and those who don\u2019t, and this is my new divide,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the full interview below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/matt-perdie\/\">Matt Perdie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and Twitter at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PragerU founder and radio host Dennis Prager told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that what divides the right and the left is the love of power. \u201cThe left [loves] &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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-1198114","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\/1198114","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198114\/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=1198114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}