Critique of Ben Shapiro's Influence

We're not playing this to suggest that Ben Shapiro was like a shaper of

history, a mover in American politics. He's not.

He's an employee, like most everybody else.

He's doing what he's told.

He represents larger interests, obviously.

So why bother to replay and then

rebut something that Ben Shapiro said?

Well, in an effort to speak to the people who

put him up to it.

So the whole point of Ben Shapiro,

and there is a point to Ben Shapiro, this is not like some organic phenomenon,

like

Ben Shapiro was just so charming and brilliant that he somehow got into

Harvard Law

School and then eyebrows and all emerged as a social media titan.

No, of course not.

Ben Shapiro had a deal with Facebook,

a deal no one else got. And so the point of Ben Shapiro was,

here's a way to send a very specific message to

outline and sell a very specific worldview to young

people. Ben Shapiro is an old person's idea of a young

person. He is a spokesman for

a group of older people aimed at younger people.

I have an idea, let's get Ben Shapiro, this guy Ben Shapiro, he's,

he's brilliant.

He's a really promising young kid, and we'll get him to sell free

market economics and a robust Reaganite foreign policy to the young folks.

And by the way, it kind of worked for a while,

thanks to the trans movement, which

you suspect they also kind of concocted,

the same group. But whatever, wherever that came from,

for a while, Ben Shapiro seemed like he

was on the side of common sense, and he's

for free speech, and he's against the trans lunacy, etc.,

etc.

But always, from day one, the point

was Ben Shapiro is gonna sell this very specific

version of economics, not capitalism.

It bears no resemblance to anything Adam Smith advocated for,

but the kind of modern American monopoly arrangement

where six countries, companies can behave like countries,

have sovereignty unlike our own nation, and control every part of your

life through debt,

which is

kind of broad, but fairly accurate de- definition of our current

economic system. So sell that,

and then sell the even harder to pitch idea

that it's unpatriotic to oppose wars

for Israel. Like first of all, it's obviously antisemitic.

I mean, it's just an expression of hate if you don't want to regime change some

country you can't find on a map. Obviously, you're a bigot.

You're basically a Nazi. In fact, you must be for Hitler.

You probably are opposed to the Second World War, too.

You probably have problems with Churchill.

It's literally immoral to oppose Ben

Shapiro's employer's

foreign policy,

but it's also un-American. Like this country was founded to fight

wars for Israel. That's why we're here.

I mean, our founders said explicitly, America exists as a

Judeo-Christian country to support Israel,

okay? So whatever, whatever prime minister of

that country wants, we're doing.

I mean, that's why we're here. So if you're against it,

well, you don't believe in America. You're against America.

Why don't you just leave? Maybe we'll revoke your green card.

Oh, you don't have a green card? We'll strip your citizenship,

and that's what ICE

exists to do now. In any case, you should know watching this that

these are not just Ben Shapiro's opinions, the extent he actually has opinions, who

knows, but these are the opinions of the people

who prop up Ben

Shapiro, who created Ben Shapiro, and this is what they think.

This is the argument they sincerely believe apparently is going to appeal

to young people who are worried about the price of burritos.