Former Obama Speechwriter Admits Shunning Conservative In His Family Was A Mistake

A speechwriter for erstwhile President Barack Obama suggested successful a impermanent effort connected Sunday that it mightiness beryllium clip to extremity shunning conservatives complete a disagreement pinch their politics. 

David Litt wrote successful The New York Times that he felt "a civic duty" to beryllium rude to his brother-in-law, citing his support for Joe Rogan and disagreements complete nan COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines. 

"My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to group who turned down nan vaccine felt for illustration nan correct point to do. How other could we motivate them to mend their ways?" Litt wrote. 

However, Litt revealed that he wanted to return up surfing and his brother-in-law, Matt, was nan only surfer he knew. So, Litt wrote, he put his unfriendliness towards him aside, and admitted his acold enarthrosis towards Matt had backfired.

Political speechwriter/author David Litt visits SiriusXM Studios connected October 5, 2017 successful New York City.   (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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"Matt and I stay very different, yet we’ve reached what is, successful today’s America, a extremist conclusion: We don’t ever o.k. of each other’s choices, but we for illustration each other," Litt conceded. 

Litt said his brother-in-law's generosity while they surfed together made him rethink his behavior, and that his surfing guidance had made Litt much courageous. 

"Ostracizing him wouldn’t person altered his behaviour — and it would person made my ain life worse," Litt wrote. 

"Our differences are meaningful, but allowing them to mean everything is portion of really we ended up here. When we trim disconnected contacts, aliases fto algorithms benignant america into warring factions, we hide that not truthful agelong ago, we utilized to person things to talk astir that didn’t impact politics. Shunning plays into nan hands of demagogues, making it easier for them to disagreement america and even, successful immoderate cases, to incite violence," he wrote.

A NYT impermanent effort conceded connected Sunday that it mightiness beryllium clip for liberals to extremity shunning their blimpish family and friends. (NYT, Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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According to Litt, Matt had told him he would ballot for him if he ran for office. 

Litt added that he would still diminution a surf instruction pinch Trump adjutant Stephen Miller, but suggested he wouldn't adjacent nan doorway connected a personification complete a governmental disagreement. 

"In an property erstwhile banishment backfires, keeping nan doorway unfastened to improbable relationship isn’t a betrayal of principles — it’s an affirmation of them," Litt continued. 

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President Donald Trump gestures arsenic he boards Air Force One astatine Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 6, 2025, en way to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Several liberals person agreed that cutting ties pinch family members complete their support for Trump successful 2024 mightiness beryllium necessary, particularly astir nan holidays. 

The co-hosts of "The View" agreed pinch nan notion, calling it a "moral issue."