I’m not surprised
I was just joking about Fields though I do find her fetching in a buxom full lips ripe sort of way but she’s obviously of low character
I bought Shapiros book on Hollywood some years back which focused on TV in the era back when movies and tv had less crossover as you too likely recall
I thought it was a great book
So I started following and he started reminding me of a younger faster talking Jonah Goldberg sorta outlook on culture and as I alluded to earlier Pelham who got Shapiros radio show sent me some of his stuff which I sure didn’t like
What motivates Ben aside from $$$ is I’m guessing he finds Trumps immigration and Islam stands racist
I say that knowing you and I recall when actual racism was clearly defined in the 50s and 60s
Now it’s a smear and PC little turds like Shapiro and his road dog Weinstein use for political points
It’s not because Trump ain’t conservative enough
Is it that truly for anyone at this point?
50 years ago these Neo Neos like Ben or Pavich would have been moderate pro INDOCHINA war Dems as likely as Dirksen GOP
There sure would not have been Goldwater or Magnus or Buck
Shapiro definitely was grandstanding when it came to Michelle Fields. A particularly mature fifteen year old could have told him that Michelle wouldn’t let him sniff her panties on her worst day, but guys like Ben don’t get it and it will be too late by the time they do get it.
I think he is a young, ambitious guy and figured his gimmick would be a lucrative meal ticket for him that will carry him for the rest of his life. I think the same of folks like Ted Cruz and Dana Loesch. Basically people who got on the post-Reagan “Conservative” bandwagon after the peak, and they’re mistaking the Bush-Dole-Bush-McCain-Romney brand of the product as the standard just as it became clear that this model is outdated.
A healthy portion of Republicans have no patience for it anymore. They join democrats and independents, who tired of this even sooner.
So they’re angry at the people who aren’t buying their product anymore. No self reflection. No intellectual inventory. They’re attached to their meal ticket and it got knocked out from under them, and they don’t know what to do.
The sooner this brand of “conservative” Republican is retired, the better. The GOP has won the popular vote in presidential elections only once since 1988, and it needed to be on the back-end of a terrorist attack to manage that.
Maybe the demographics have changed so much that we won’t see something resembling a coherent conservative approach in our lifetimes.
I tend to think we should take whatever we can get because it’s going to be a lean century for deeply principled conservatives.