Ben Shapiro

Because most Americans have read zero books on a thing.

And the ones who are fairly informed have read one book on a thing.

So if you've read two books on a thing, this makes you so much more knowledgeable than the vast majority of the population.

I mean, honestly, if I'm going to talk about a thing and really not bring on an expert to talk about it, I'd like to have read five or six books on a thing minimum.

But I think that that's going to provide you the proper context.

And again, I think it's totally fair to say that the three most important words in the English language I don't know.

You're just allowed to say, I don't know.

One of the things that happens on X, which is always hilarious, is that somebody who was a Ukraine expert since 30 seconds ago will suddenly become an Iran expert when they didn't know what the Strait of Hormuz was or where it was on the planet until 10 seconds ago.

They shift expertise to expertise, of course, not having achieved any expertise in those particular areas.

I think it's definitely possible to say, I don't know enough about that.

Maybe I should do some reading before I come back on that one.

Thank you.

So I think Britain is obviously constituted governmentally very differently than the United States, right?

You can have a...

a third or a fourth or a fifth party, in Britain, they can be successful.

I mean, the Reform Party didn't exist until five seconds ago.

So you can do that in Britain.

In the United States, it's a two-party system.

Much easier to take over one of the established parties than it is to remake a third party, which is why Trumpism is different than Bushism.

It's why what comes next for the Democrats is likely to be even more left than Obamaism, which was significantly more left than Clintonism.