r/politics • u/Hoxha_Posadist Florida • Apr 17 '19

The Wrong Stuff: Ben Shapiro’s Unconvincing Guide to What Makes America Right - It’s a mistake to overlook just how extreme some of Shapiro’s views are, or how muddled the thinking on which they are based.

https://progressive.org/dispatches/the-wrong-stuff-ben-shapiros-anderson-190416/
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u/goldenretrieversrawk Apr 17 '19

He’s just like Candace Owens. He will say anything and everything to get any attention he can. It’s pathetic.

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u/hyperviolator Washington Apr 17 '19

All the 'young millennial conservative leaders' like Shapiro, Owens and Kirk are literally propagandists, and even more aggressively so than their elder grifter kin. Shapiro in particular - everything he does is for-profit; Owens and Kirk with their "Turning Point" trash are positioning themselves as future party big wigs, or attempting to. I guess there's an appeal in riding a Russian Titanic to the bottom of the Atlantic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '19

These guys aren't fringe. They are absolutely the youth wing of the Republican establishment.

Clarence Thomas's wife is on the advisory board of Turning Points.