{"id":1431764,"date":"2022-04-11T19:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431764"},"modified":"2022-04-11T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:30:01","slug":"exclusive-david-mamet-donald-trump-is-the-lefts-real-leader-because-their-hatred-unified-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-david-mamet-donald-trump-is-the-lefts-real-leader-because-their-hatred-unified-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; David Mamet: Donald Trump Is the Left&#039;s Real Leader Because Their Hatred &#039;Unified Them&#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\">32<\/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-david-mamet-donald-trump-is-the-lefts-real-leader-because-their-hatred-unified-them%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=1431764&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Acclaimed <em>Glengarry Glen Ross<\/em> playwright and <em>Wag the Dog<\/em> screenwriter David Mamet told Breitbart News he believes that Donald Trump is the political left\u2019s true leader because their hatred of the former president has \u201cunified them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can this many people be galvanized without a leader on whom to heap their devotion? I realized they did have a leader on whom to heap their devotion but it was a devotion to murdering him and it was Donald Trump,\u201d he said.<\/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>\u201cWhy is his name constantly in your mouth? It\u2019s because it unified them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Listen Below:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>That is one of the many conclusions Mamet draws in his new book of essays\u00a0<em>Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch<\/em>. In an interview with\u00a0Breitbart News\u2019 editor-in-chief Alex\u00a0Marlow on\u00a0<em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> on Sirius XM Patriot 125, he explained the book\u2019s overarching idea \u2014 how the left\u2019s groupthink and mob mentality stifles free speech and threatens democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has a different opinion, that\u2019s the way God made us,\u201d he said. \u201cThe U.S. is based on the the idea that everyone has a different opinion and we\u2019re going to have some rules for debate. That\u2019s what the Constitution is \u2014 rules for debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20619254\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/643F66A1-D6E7-4C08-ACA1-A303B2408A57Img100.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the woke mob wants to stamp out free thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re part of a mob it means I give up my individuality, I get all my meaning from the mob \u2014 whatever it is, my sexual identity, my racial identity, my political identity,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s important, rather than individual identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere\u2019s only one way to achieve excellence in the mob and that\u2019s by being more outrageous than everybody around you. So that\u2019s why the mob grows in fury, because they keep pushing each other, in serach of status and power, they keep pushing farther and farther to the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20619344\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-615382312-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20619344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-615382312-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2879\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>David Mamet walks a red carpet during the 11th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on October 18, 2016 in Rome, Italy. (Ernesto Ruscio\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mamet also spoke about the left\u2019s indoctrination of children and their usurpation of the parents\u2019 role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you teach that this is a dreadful country, and that logical thinking is cheating and you\u2019re going to be indicted for it, you\u2019re not educating anybody. You\u2019re indoctrinating them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0think that\u2019s what\u2019s really going to swamp the Democrats in the midterm elections, is a lot of people of whatever political persuasion they call themselves saying, you can\u2019t have my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mamet turned to the scriptures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of human nature is there,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hiding sometimes, but it\u2019s myths about human nature or its human nature expressed in poetic form. But so is a joke \u2014 that\u2019s what a joke is, it\u2019s human nature expressed in poetic form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Mamet is currently represented on Broadway with a revival of <em>American Buffalo,\u00a0<\/em>starring\u00a0Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow David <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Ng on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed Glengarry Glen Ross playwright and Wag the Dog screenwriter David Mamet told Breitbart News he believes that Donald Trump is the political left\u2019s true leader because their hatred of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431764","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\/1431764","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431764\/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=1431764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}