He is clearly immature and full of himself.
I suspect that he had the hots for Fields and because he did not receive adequate attention from his ‘peers’ at Breitbart, he grew resentful. Like Cruz, he feels entitled without having to contend with any processes of development. He just wants it all now, without delay. Very similar
Link below if not yet read.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/8441/i-know-trumps-new-campaign-chairman-steve-bannon-ben-shapiro
Is Shapiro even relevant?
I used to listen to the Lee Rogers and Melanie Morgan show on KSFO, back around 2000 - 2002ish. Little Ben was an occasional caller to the show. Each time he would call, they would go on and on about what a brilliant young lad young Ben was. The dude called in frequently enough that I still remember his name and the schtick got tiresome.
My last recollection of Ben, on that show, was him calling in to report going off to college.
He’s an arrogant punk, comes across like a know-it-all teenager.
Here is my Shapiro experience:
About 5 years ago Andrew Breitbart and I began conversations about my speaking to the secret Hollywood group Friends of Abe. Andrew hired a dinner for me and several members at a nice steak place. Nick Searcy, Adam Baldwin, Ann and Colin, the producers of “Fracknation” and Shapiro were all there (plus others who haven’t come out yet). Even then, as one person at the dinner told me, Benji was a “social justice warrior.”
Fast forward to TrumpTime: I was told by people who know at Breitbart that Benji is strongly money driven, do I suspect a heavy dose of posturing for pay is involved. But his crap got him canned as a speaker from a big college conservative group. He is married so I think the Fields stuff had less to do with romance and more to do with finance and the job opportunities that he thought would come with being anti-Trump.
You have little Ben pegged accurately. As one wit around here said ‘he thought he was the smartest kid in the 6th grade; no one liked him then, and no one likes him now’. He’s 30 with the maturity of 12. Little Ben shows all the signs of being a pampered boy who never was part of a sports team, who has never worked as part of a blue collar work crew. The condescension and arrogance wouldn’t survive that environment.
He’s one of the kiddy-cons like Meghan McCain, born during the middle of the Reagan administration, who have little real life experience but who have managed to set themselves up as conservative spokesmen. They came of age during the glorious Bush II dynasty (sarcasm) and they are full of neocon gas, which is one reason that they despise Trump.
I suspect his hatred of Steve Bannon comes from little Ben hitching his wagon to the Michelle Field’s scam which cost them their jobs at Breitbart. Seems that little Ben didn’t have a problem cashing their checks prior to that.