Ben Shapiro

One of those is rooted in some form of realism.

The other is just crazed fan fiction conspiracy nonsense.

And that is what this has become.

All of this geopolitical fan fiction for people who think America sucks so much that countries like Russia not only ought to be a model for us, but ought to have more global power.

This is all part of what we called last week a demoralization op.

As we discussed last week, demoralization is the effort to destroy basic moral principles and dogmas and replace them with divisive fringe ideologies.

It is step one in trying to collapse your enemies.

And that is what is happening here.

Enemies of America are using every resource at their disposal to do it.

And good news for them.

There's lots of resources, an entire online repository of complete dunderheaded morons and conspiratorial America haters to do their dirty work for them.

And lots of people online to click into the echo chamber.

The exact same people who built their brands around don't trust the regime and don't trust the media and don't trust the propaganda are suddenly very much in favor of trusting the regime when it's Russia, the media when it's Russia today, and the propaganda when they are controlled by the Russian government.

And tell them America is decadent and the West is collapsing and Putin is strong and Russia protects tradition.

And suddenly they are on board all the way.

They're not investigating or questioning.

This is not skepticism, folks.

It's not skepticism.

This is credulity.

This is absolute credulous stupidity.