I agree. We want as many conservative voices as possible in all media, flooding the zone with a variety of differences and perspectives. This ain’t a ritual purity contest.
Every leftist supports every leftist. This rule holds about 99 percent of the time. For too many people on the right, the first instinct is to form circular firing squads. Because anyone who doesn’t agree with me 100 percent of the time is an enemy.
Don’t like Ben Shapiro? Fine. Watch somebody else. One of the healthy things on the right is that we actually have a range of viewpoints and a mix of voices.
I don’t watch much of Ben Shapiro’s stuff, but I do enjoy his roundtables on movies and related topics with Andrew Klavan and Matt Walsh.
And I do respect what he’s trying to do on the Daily Wire, which is to provide a platform for thoughtful conservative voices.
We’ve had worse. And to the extent that the left haaaaates him, and to the extent that he can pull extra votes, we should take it.