Ben Shapiro

And they will ask them which line matches up.

Now, if you ask the person in isolation, they'll get the answer right every time.

It's a very easy question.

However, what the experiment shows is that if all the actors around the normie start saying that the longer line matches the normal line,

then the normie will start to mirror that out of fear of standing out from the herd, out of fear of exercising psychological independence.

Well, the online arena is built for this.

It's built for this.

The number of likes on an X post, people think that is reflective of reality, even if it is not.

And so if you can generate a bot network or an echo chamber that radically increases the belief that many people are actually supporting a thing, you will get normies to start following that particular perspective.

And that is how you end up mainstreaming delusion and conspiracism.

That is, to pretend that foreign operations have nothing to do with that is really stupid.

They clearly, clearly do.

And you can see it in the polling.

Coming up, we'll be joined by the former ambassador to China, Sam Brownback.

Plus, we'll get to Iran and the latest there, what's going on with the inflation report.

A lot going on today.

First, small businesses are one of the few things actually holding the American economy together at this point.

These are people who take real risks.

Opening restaurants, running construction companies, starting logistics firms, building software companies out of garages and spare bedrooms.

Despite what politicians love to say, a lot of these businesses are operating under enormous pressure.