Ben Shapiro
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Asked by the Washington Post what had happened, Shapiro accused other conservatives of click-whoring by embracing radical Islam, theorizing about the evils of Winston Churchill, and mocking the widow of Charlie Kirk.
The kid still got it.
On Today Explained, the fall of Ben Shapiro.
Today Explained drops every weekday afternoon.
One would hope.
In the span of a decade, Ben Shapiro built The Daily Wire into a conservative media empire.
He produced hit podcasts that bit at liberal excesses and documentaries and lectures about the founders, the genders, the gospels.
He peddled polos, hats, candles, provided a home for deplatformed conservative stars like Matt Walsh and minted stars like Candace Owens.
Let's put a pin in that.
The Daily Wire even has kids programming a judgmental puppet named Zoodles.
who shares Shapiro's load-bearing eyebrows.
This year, though, the empire showed signs of collapse.
The Daily Wire's YouTube videos are down from millions of views to the lo-fi figures.
Web traffic is plummeting.
And recently, Shapiro laid off 13% of his employees.
Asked by The Washington Post what had happened, Shapiro accused other conservatives of click-whoring by embracing radical Islam, theorizing about the evils of Winston Churchill, and mocking the widow of Charlie Kirk.
The kid still got it.
On Today Explained, the fall of Ben Shapiro.