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Ben Shapiro: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is — Your Enemy
National Review ^ | February 22, 2017 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 02/22/2017 10:40:52 AM PST by EveningStar

Ideas and values should matter more than tribal identity...

Unfortunately, many conservatives have embraced this sort of binary thinking: If it angers the Left, it must be virtuous. Undoubtedly, that's a crude shorthand for political thinking. It means you never have to check the ideas of the speaker, you merely have to check how people respond to him.

That's dangerous. It leads to supporting bad policies and bad men. The enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend. Sometimes he's your enemy. Sometimes he's just a dude sitting there minding his own business...

The logic of "if he melts snowflakes, he's one of us" actually hands power to the Left, by allowing leftists to define conservatives' friends. It gets to choose whom we support...

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alwayscruz; benshapiro; binarythinking; bsshapiro; craycray; cruz; cuck; cuckold; davidduke; enemies; identitypolitics; looniebin; nationalreview; nevertrump; ragepit; strawman; talkradio; tribalcruzers; tribalidentity; trump; twistedlogic
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To: minnesota_bound

I don’t know. Where did you hear that?


81 posted on 02/22/2017 6:10:41 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: minnesota_bound

This cuck outed himself as a pathetic panty sniffer over that lying ditz reporter that got beat to death by Trumps guy.


82 posted on 02/22/2017 6:14:00 PM PST by The Toll
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To: poconopundit
Count me in as one of those "religious fervor" Trump supporters.

Donald Trump walks on water

ROFL! Great tongue-in-cheek stuff there! :)

83 posted on 02/22/2017 6:19:08 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

1) Maybe fired
2) Quit for better things
3) *ding ding ding* Got tired of co-host Brian Whitman interrupting him to talk about how great the democrats are along with another story about another restaurant he went to in 1998, 2003 and so on and padding every answer with 500 words when 10 would do then complain when Ben tried to finish what he had to say, Brian would say “Please let me finish, I do not interrupt you...”.


84 posted on 02/22/2017 6:38:12 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I immediately thought he was alluding to Milo.


85 posted on 02/22/2017 7:00:35 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: 1rudeboy

>Question being asked here (by me, unsuccessfully): if Steyn, by chance or otherwise, makes an intelligent observation about something . . . will you discount it because of his response to the death of George Michael?

I have no opinion on Steyn. Did he try to help get Hillary elected? If so, then no I wouldn’t bother reading his propaganda either. And before you start going on about observations, it was clear from the start that Little Benji was writing a propaganda piece, not an observation. You don’t need 5,000 words for an observation.


86 posted on 02/22/2017 7:14:08 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: RedWulf

I will refer you (possibly again) to my comment #21. What do you find so troubling about the “propaganda?”


87 posted on 02/22/2017 7:18:12 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

>I will refer you (possibly again) to my comment #21. What do you find so troubling about the “propaganda?”

Why would I listen to #nevertrumper propaganda in service to the left? I don’t listen to communist propaganda for the same reason.


88 posted on 02/22/2017 7:32:07 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: EveningStar
Your name is in one of my favorite poems... wise choice.

Crossing the Bar
Lord Alfred Tennyson, 1809 - 1892

Sunset and evening star,
   And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
   When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
   Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
   Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
   And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
   When I embark;

For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
   The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
   When I have cross’d the bar.

And a vanity I submitted with a Tennyson theme:

Ulysses Trump Joins Millions of Heroic Hearts to Take Back America

89 posted on 02/22/2017 8:50:31 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: EveningStar

Nobody cares about you Ben, or what you think. You`re stupid and irrelevant.


90 posted on 02/22/2017 10:41:18 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: EveningStar; Pelham

Eff Ben Shapiro

Eff Michelle Fields and her Shapiro sidekick boy toy

She is hot though....if we were Vikings she’d be spared for as a comfort gal but her compadres would “take the walk”


91 posted on 02/22/2017 10:59:20 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Eurotwit
"Is he talking about Trump?"

I think he's talking about Trump and Milo.

I think he dislikes both because they not sufficiently ideologues. They don't fit into the neat "tribes" that he likes.

Oh, and, DAVID DUKE!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!

DAVID DUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

92 posted on 02/23/2017 4:22:11 AM PST by Pietro
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To: EveningStar

This is just more self-important navel gazing by the childish Ben Shapiro.


93 posted on 02/23/2017 11:40:42 AM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This article has nothing to do with foreign policy. It’s simply one more NeverTrump essay.


94 posted on 02/23/2017 11:53:27 AM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: protest1

” we are not to be blind loyal fools we have to be loyal to “principles” as defined by.... who exactly??”

As defined by a purist who has born during the Reagan administration. As defined by someone too young to remember purists like himself for whom Reagan wasn’t principled enough. As defined by someone who doesn’t remember guilt-by-association smears against Reagan identical to his own linking of Trump with David Duke.

Presidents are elected by coalitions. No one gets all that they want. You either join the coalition and help, or like little Ben Shapiro you can stand on the outside throwing rocks and helping the enemy.


95 posted on 02/23/2017 12:04:48 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: Eurotwit

” but, this about Milo more so than Trump.”

? Milo isn’t mentioned even once.


96 posted on 02/23/2017 12:09:14 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: savagesusie
If he follows the Talmud (tribalism/mysticism), then I have a big problem with his ability to “reason” (be human).
I appreciate your openly antisemitic belief that Jews are incapable of reason or being human.
With the exception of the small number of Karites (neo-Sadducees) all traditional Jews accept the legitimacy of the Talmud to varying degrees. The Jews who don't are Reform, Reconstructionist, and atheists, the ones on the left.

You know nothing of Jews or Judaism save conspiracy and lies.
PS. Isn't Klaven Jewish?

97 posted on 03/08/2017 3:37:49 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets ou<r bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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