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Salena Zito: Elites are the ones who are dividing America
Fox News ^ | October 7,2018 | Salena Zito

Posted on 10/07/2018 8:09:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor for The Atlantic and senior political analyst at CNN, recently issued a bleak tweet: “Today felt very much like an update of the 1850s: 2 very distinct parts of US that no longer care to even fake that they respect or value the other. Like Trump, #Kavanaugh built his strategy on rallying 1 side of that divide vs the other. Seams are unraveling-not just on #SCOTUS”

Slappy acknowledges there’s a national schism but says that she and her neighbors see Washington as divided, not their communities. James Butler, a local mayor and vice president of the local Rotary club, agrees.

Butler is a Republican, but he says his borough council is made up of elected Democrats and Republicans and he says partisanship is never a part of governing. “Everybody has their ideas of what they feel is best for the community, but at our level, it’s not really a Republican or a Democrat thing. It’s more what can we do to solve the problem.

“Our great division in this country doesn’t come from here, it comes from the political class.”

In the elite bubbles, it feels that politics is roiled by division. But in other parts of the country, where people are focused on local issues, many Americans still feel unified. Slappy and Butler epitomize this collective spirit. The elites in cities like DC and New York, says Slappy, “don’t seem to get that.”

Butler, for his part, isn’t sure what it will take to close this compassion gap.

“I just think it would be better for all of us if it did.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; elitists; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; ronaldbrownstein; salenazito; smearmachine; theatlantic; zito
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1 posted on 10/07/2018 8:09:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

These are the stories that come out when the Republicans are ascendant. “Oh, dear. We’re sooo divided. More than ever, forces are driving us apart...”


2 posted on 10/07/2018 8:13:24 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Hojczyk

The elites hedge their wealth on division. And on foolish issues like homosexuality, bathrooms, PC BS


3 posted on 10/07/2018 8:13:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Hojczyk

Salena Zito, huh?

Sounds Spanish and Italian.

cool.


4 posted on 10/07/2018 8:14:04 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

And a heck of a reporter for a while now.


5 posted on 10/07/2018 8:15:49 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Wait until Butler is accused of being a mass/gang rapist with zero evidence...

And we will see how he feels.


6 posted on 10/07/2018 8:18:03 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: jdsteel

My post was just a guess and trivia/trivial

This post about her being a heck of a reporter is the meat.

I shall get to know her writings better.


7 posted on 10/07/2018 8:19:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622
Ugh!! The very instantiation of the Rush Rule!

Not even a 6-pack will make a normal guy hit it.

8 posted on 10/07/2018 8:20:00 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Always believe women except: clinton rape, ellison assault, booker groping, ted kennedy murder)
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To: Hojczyk

Why are they called elites?

Elite what?


9 posted on 10/07/2018 8:22:24 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: freedumb2003

That was CRUEL to do to me.

I was picturing a Spanish/Italian mix of utter beauty.

She looks like Mike Bloomberg with a wig on.


10 posted on 10/07/2018 8:23:11 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BradyLS
And it's the same as it ever was. Gotta love this new generation of clueless useful idiots who lament how Pres Trump has brought a "coarseness", divisiveness, bitterness, animosity, etc to political discourse, as if there's ever been a genuine modicum of decorum in politics to begin with. He didn't bring it, he's EXPOSING it. My dad was involved in local politics, he was a Repub. Committeman in the Rockland Cty, NY Republican party. I was in the Young Republicans, I have fond memories of the eve of the 1980 elections tearing up the streets in my 68 Charger plastering Reagan posters all over the place, good times! :) But, I noticed the animosity and infighting WITHIN the party. Even worse than across party lines. Being new to this racket I thought Civil War II was gonna break out with the town of Ramapo being the new Ft. Sumpter.
11 posted on 10/07/2018 8:28:42 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Lazamataz

Well?


12 posted on 10/07/2018 8:30:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: dp0622

Reality bites.

But it explains her(?) feminaziism.


13 posted on 10/07/2018 8:35:18 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Always believe women except: clinton rape, ellison assault, booker groping, ted kennedy murder)
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To: Hojczyk

It seems like half the country are retards who spell words with symbols like #.


14 posted on 10/07/2018 8:35:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dp0622
👍🏻
15 posted on 10/07/2018 8:40:31 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!)
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To: freedumb2003

I think you should read more of her work. She’s pretty conservative and has captured the spirit of the everyday petiole who support Trump.


16 posted on 10/07/2018 8:45:08 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: dp0622

I used to like you. FReep that.


17 posted on 10/07/2018 8:46:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Hojczyk

Divide and conquer bump for later....


18 posted on 10/07/2018 8:46:32 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: dp0622

Sicilian. Zito is fairly common name.


19 posted on 10/07/2018 8:48:23 PM PDT by Oldexpat (C)
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To: SargeK

You missed the memo. Her work doesn’t matter, only what she looks like. If they wanted to have sex with her, her investigative reporting on Trump voters in the Midwest would be insightful and generally positive. Since they don’t, she’s a “feminazi,” and that’s it for her and anything she might have to say about current electoral sociology.


20 posted on 10/07/2018 8:49:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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