I still read Ben Shapiro. I get what he is saying in a lot of what he writes, but its also true that his “adhere to your principles at all costs” thinking is how the GOP and conservatives keep getting their asses handed to them in elections and the cultural war. Like Henry Clay said, Ben would rather be right than have a GOP president.
What I learned long ago, and what the nation observed during the Trump campaign, the so-called conservative nevertrump principles weren’t principles at all, but craven allegiance to globalism and the Chamber of Commerce and corporate cronyism. It was their job to fool us for decades when what they were really working for was a vision that didn’t include us. It included third world workers here, goods made in Asia and enclaves of elites living richly off the profits. Shapiro and Krystol and their ilk wanted Hillary to win. That says what side they are on, no matter what they write. I wouldn’t read a single word written by any of them, any more than I would read Goebbels. Whatever they claim as their conservative opinion, it is a lie.