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Almost 20 years ago, anti-immigration activist David Horowitz cultivated an angry high-school student. Now his ideas are coming to life in the Trump administration.
The Man Who Made Stephen Miller
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Almost 20 years ago, anti-immigration activist David Horowitz cultivated an angry high-school student. Now his ideas are coming to life in the Trump administration.
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In December 2012, with the Republican Party reeling from a brutal election that left Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate, the conservative activist David Horowitz emailed a strategy paper to the office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.
Horowitz, now 81, was a longtime opponent of immigration and the founder of a think tank and a campus freedom-of-speech advocacy group. He saw in Sessions a kindred spirita senator who could reawaken a more nationalist fire in the Republican party. The person he emailed it to was a Sessions aide: Stephen Miller. Horowitz, who recalled the episode in an interview and shared the emails with me, had known Miller since the aide was in high school.
Horowitz encouraged Miller to not only give the paper to Sessions but to circulate it in the Senate. Miller expressed eagerness to share it and asked for instructions. Leave the Confidential note on it. It gives it an aura that will make people pay more attention to it, Horowitz wrote. The paper, Playing to the Head Instead of the Heart: Why Republicans Lost and How They Can Win, included a section on the political utility of hostile feelings. Horowitz wrote that Democrats know how to hate their opponents, how to incite envy and resentment, distrust and fear, and to direct those volatile emotions. He urged Republicans to return their fire.
Behind the failures of Republican campaigns lies an attitude that is administrative rather than combative. It focuses on policies rather than politics. It is more comfortable with budgets and pie charts than with the flesh and blood victims of their opponents policies, Horowitz wrote, adding that Democrats have the moral high ground. They are secular missionaries who want to change society. Their goal is a new order of societysocial justice. He argued that the only way to beat them is with an equally emotional campaign that puts the aggressors on the defensive; that attacks them in the same moral language, identifying them as the bad guys.
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The Man Who Made Stephen Miller (Original Post)
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Aug 2020
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gristy
(10,667 posts)1. link to politico article
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/01/stephen-miller-david-horowitz-mentor-389933
More at the link; nothing more at the tweet.
The Man Who Made Stephen Miller
In December 2012, with the Republican Party reeling from a brutal election that left Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate, the conservative activist David Horowitz emailed a strategy paper to the office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.
Horowitz, now 81, was a longtime opponent of immigration and the founder of a think tank and a campus freedom-of-speech advocacy group. He saw in Sessions a kindred spirita senator who could reawaken a more nationalist fire in the Republican party. The person he emailed it to was a Sessions aide: Stephen Miller. Horowitz, who recalled the episode in an interview and shared the emails with me, had known Miller since the aide was in high school.
Horowitz encouraged Miller to not only give the paper to Sessions but to circulate it in the Senate. Miller expressed eagerness to share it and asked for instructions. Leave the Confidential note on it. It gives it an aura that will make people pay more attention to it, Horowitz wrote. The paper, Playing to the Head Instead of the Heart: Why Republicans Lost and How They Can Win, included a section on the political utility of hostile feelings. Horowitz wrote that Democrats know how to hate their opponents, how to incite envy and resentment, distrust and fear, and to direct those volatile emotions. He urged Republicans to return their fire.
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In December 2012, with the Republican Party reeling from a brutal election that left Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate, the conservative activist David Horowitz emailed a strategy paper to the office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.
Horowitz, now 81, was a longtime opponent of immigration and the founder of a think tank and a campus freedom-of-speech advocacy group. He saw in Sessions a kindred spirita senator who could reawaken a more nationalist fire in the Republican party. The person he emailed it to was a Sessions aide: Stephen Miller. Horowitz, who recalled the episode in an interview and shared the emails with me, had known Miller since the aide was in high school.
Horowitz encouraged Miller to not only give the paper to Sessions but to circulate it in the Senate. Miller expressed eagerness to share it and asked for instructions. Leave the Confidential note on it. It gives it an aura that will make people pay more attention to it, Horowitz wrote. The paper, Playing to the Head Instead of the Heart: Why Republicans Lost and How They Can Win, included a section on the political utility of hostile feelings. Horowitz wrote that Democrats know how to hate their opponents, how to incite envy and resentment, distrust and fear, and to direct those volatile emotions. He urged Republicans to return their fire.
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More at the link; nothing more at the tweet.
Grins
(7,212 posts)3. "DEMOCRATS know how to hate their opponents..."?
I wish.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)4. Been Seeing Ads For That Tool's New Book
Popping up documentary channels. Including Science.
People who believe that junk Horowitz peddles are into science? Really?
This book is a piece of CT crap about "deep state" actors ruining PINO!
Davey? He doesn't need our help. He's ruining himself all by his pathetic self.
moondust
(19,972 posts)5. Jew builds Nazi.