Ben Shapiro

64% of Democrats believe Vladimir Putin has blackmailed Trump.

24% of Democrats aged 18 to 29 say the Holocaust did not happen, as historians describe.

28% think the moon landing was fake.

37% are 9-11 truthers.

38% say October 7th was an inside job.

That's young Democrats.

52% of all Democrats believe the U.S.

has a long history of racism and is still a very racist country today, which is a grievance politics.

So why does that matter?

Because politicians now fear saying true things for fear of upholding that supposedly conspiratorial system.

Conspiratorial thinking is, in its essence, anti-establishment in the fullest sense.

If you believe the moon landing wasn't real, you believe that every single person in your life, from your parents to your teachers to television to books to the government, has been lying to you.

If you believe that Vladimir Putin blackmailed Donald Trump, you believe that our system is so moth eaten with corruption and evil that no one can put it right.

The system has to be torn to shreds.

When that feeling runs strong in voters, politicians fear to speak the truth.

Because if you speak the truth, like for example, the moon landing happened and the Holocaust did happen and Donald Trump was in fact shot in the ear by somebody who is not a fan of Donald Trump.

If you say that sort of stuff, it is now perceived as an establishmentarian act.

If you say that men are not women, as a Democrat, you're saying that the system actually has been telling you the truth your whole life.

And that tends to uphold the system.

If you say that the border ought to be controlled, you're saying the system deserves to be upheld.