{"id":573620,"date":"2021-06-25T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573620"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:07:27","slug":"mumford-sons-guitarist-announces-hes-leaving-band-to-speak-his-mind-on-political-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mumford-sons-guitarist-announces-hes-leaving-band-to-speak-his-mind-on-political-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumford &#038; Sons Guitarist Announces He\u2019s Leaving Band To \u2018Speak His Mind\u2019 On Political Issues"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fmumford-sons-guitarist-announces-hes-leaving-band-to-speak-his-mind-on-political-issues%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=573620&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\/2021\/06\/Winston-Marshall.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Mumford &#038; Sons lead guitarist and banjo player Winston Marshall announced Thursday he\u2019s leaving the multi-platinum band in order to \u201cspeak freely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mumford-sons-guitarist-steps-away-from-band-for-promoting-book-from-conservative-reporter\">reported<\/a>, a woke online mob attacked Marshall in March, likening him to a Nazi, after he praised conservative journalist Andy Ngo for his \u201cbrave\u201d documentation of Antifa\u2019s political extremism and violence in the book, \u201cUnmasked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the British performer apologized and seemed to back away from his commendation, saying, \u201cI have offended not only a lot of people I don\u2019t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blindspots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it appears after more than three months of reflection, Marshall has come to regret his disavowal, saying in a farewell letter posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com\/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255\">Medium<\/a>, \u201cThe truth is that reporting on extremism at the great risk of endangering oneself is unquestionably brave. I also feel that my previous apology in a small way participates in the lie that such extremism does not exist, or worse, is a force for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall said that while he abhors both Far Left and Far Right fanaticism, he sees \u201cnothing wrong with being conservative.\u201d He described his own views as \u201c[fluttering] between \u2018centrist,\u2019 \u2018liberal\u2019 or the more honest \u2018bit this, bit that,\u2019\u201d and added, \u201cBeing labeled erroneously just goes to show how binary political discourse has become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Grammy winner then shared how concern for the other members of the group led him to express remorse he did not truly feel when the mob came after him. \u201cIn the mania of the moment I was desperate to protect my bandmates,\u201d he said. \u201cThe hornets\u2019 nest that I had unwittingly hit had unleashed a black-hearted swarm on them and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In explaining how he ultimately reached his decision to part ways, despite his bandmates inviting him to stay, Marshall quoted Soviet dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn\u2019s famous essay, \u201cLive Not By Lies,\u201d revealing that he has read it many times since his initial cancellation. In the passage, the Russian novelist issues a clarion call to speak truth in the face of political oppression:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul \u2014 don\u2019t let him be proud of his \u201cprogressive\u201d views, and don\u2019t let him boast that he is an academician or a people\u2019s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It\u2019s all the same to me as long as I\u2019m fed and kept warm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Marshall finished his letter by saying that he could not in good conscience stay silent, even for the sake of fame and fortune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could remain and continue to self-censor,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut it will erode my sense of integrity. Gnaw my conscience. I\u2019ve already felt that beginning. The only way forward for me is to leave the band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumford &#038; Sons lead guitarist and banjo player Winston Marshall announced Thursday he\u2019s leaving the multi-platinum band in order to \u201cspeak freely.\u201dAs The Daily Wire reported, a woke online mob &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281311,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Winston-Marshall.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Mumford &#038; Sons Guitarist Announces He\u2019s Leaving Band To \u2018Speak His Mind\u2019 On Political Issues","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Winston-Marshall.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Mumford &#038; Sons Guitarist Announces He\u2019s Leaving Band To \u2018Speak His Mind\u2019 On Political Issues","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573620","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}