Ben Shapiro

Instead, that person disagrees with you because they actually want people to die.

And that's what happens when you lack trust in the people around you.

You've never actually said this, unless you're a very young child in my family, to other members of your family.

My kids say it to each other, but that's because my kids are, you know,

12, 10, 6, 2, and in the womb.

So it takes a second when you have that many.

But unless you're a child, you shouldn't be attributing motivations to other people unless you have good evidence that their motivation is malign.

But that's what we jump to when there is no trust.

Because I trust my wife.

I'm not worried that when she criticizes me, it's coming from a terrible place.

I trust the people that I go to synagogue with.

If they have a critique or we have a disagreement, not even a critique, I don't immediately jump to, they do it because they hate me.

And you're doing it because you hate me is the death of politics.

Because if that's the case, then how exactly are we supposed to live together and work together and create policy together?

Our institutions have been rotted out.

They've maintained a lot of their power, but they've retained none of their original philosophy.

These sort of foundations upon which they were built have been rotted away.

I've said before on my show that a lot of our institutions are being worn around kind of like a Hannibal Lecter skin suit.

They're still only animate because they're being worn around by something foreign.

Our truth-making institutions used to be rooted in truth.