I haven't seen enough of Shapiro to make a judgement about him, but I figured he can't be all bad considering how much the MSM hates him. But if it took him this long to realize what anyone outside the left's propaganda bubble knew from the beginning that doesn't reflect well on him.
I think you still need these clueless fucks to be on your side. MAGA types are not the majority of the party yet. There are tons of people as smoothbrained as Ben who are "generally" conservative but aren't paying attention.
His role is the face of the "right wing bogey man", same as Tucker (and Walsh, for that matter). They say things that were center-left ten years ago and the rest of the media points at them and shouts "alt-right extremist".
He's controlled opposition. He'll never actually rock the boat, just act as a drag on the leftward drift. Even then, he only does it to get everyone who opposes it in one place so they can be discredited as a group.
He is the epitome of controlled opposition. He's set up as an acceptable enemy for the mainstream media to rail against, but he never gets deplatformed, he can write in mainstream newspapers, etc. Of course, there are plenty of libtards who are stupid enough to believe he's actually their enemy, but he and the people at the top work together.
I quit listening to him when he was whining about Trump's "trade wars" because it's such a great thing to have no manufacturing capacity as long as we're able to get cheap Chinese-made shit.
I haven't seen enough of Shapiro to make a judgement about him, but I figured he can't be all bad considering how much the MSM hates him. But if it took him this long to realize what anyone outside the left's propaganda bubble knew from the beginning that doesn't reflect well on him.
They hate him because he somehow is popular, not because his ideas are all that good.
To be fair, his good to bad ideas ratio at least is in the positive towards good ideas.
Just not as good as the ideas of MAGA candidates like Kari Lake.
They are milquetoast and weak in an age when the Left is completely unhinged and demands considerable more resistance.
I'd consider that bad regardless of if it would have been good in a less crazy age, because its placating the masses into not fighting harder.
I think you still need these clueless fucks to be on your side. MAGA types are not the majority of the party yet. There are tons of people as smoothbrained as Ben who are "generally" conservative but aren't paying attention.
That's the catch-22.
They hate him because that's their job.
His role is the face of the "right wing bogey man", same as Tucker (and Walsh, for that matter). They say things that were center-left ten years ago and the rest of the media points at them and shouts "alt-right extremist".
He's controlled opposition. He'll never actually rock the boat, just act as a drag on the leftward drift. Even then, he only does it to get everyone who opposes it in one place so they can be discredited as a group.
I hear this term a lot. Who's doing the controlling, exactly?
Jews, obviously. His billionaire Jewish backers have a lot more in common with left wing Jewish billionaires than they do with any of us.
He is the epitome of controlled opposition. He's set up as an acceptable enemy for the mainstream media to rail against, but he never gets deplatformed, he can write in mainstream newspapers, etc. Of course, there are plenty of libtards who are stupid enough to believe he's actually their enemy, but he and the people at the top work together.
I quit listening to him when he was whining about Trump's "trade wars" because it's such a great thing to have no manufacturing capacity as long as we're able to get cheap Chinese-made shit.