Jeremy Boreing

And there's an opportunity for people to make a lot of money, an opportunity for people to seize a lot of power, an opportunity to advance new visions for what the future of conservatism in America and globally can be.

And then there's structural issues around social media and how we're incentivized as creators of content within that framework.

I think those two things and the sort of inherent problems in both are creating this really confluent moment where we see almost open civil war, and in some cases, very open civil war,

on the right as people are both trying to make money, build their own brands, and compete for actual true political power in a post-Trump world, which is rapidly approaching.

We'll have our midterms this year, and then you will immediately be in the next presidential cycle.

I mean, starting in 2027, we'll be trying to figure out who the next president of the United States is going to be.

And because we know it can't be Donald Trump, the question is, what direction is the country going to go?

Well, you can't ensure that your choices are always going to be the right ones.

And you probably have to accept in life that some of your choices will be the wrong ones, both because you're reacting to incentives, because at times you have limited information, and because at times all sin falls short of the glory of God.

We certainly made our share of mistakes at The Daily Wire during my tenure.

I think we hit a lot more than we missed.

But when you're a big company and when you're...

when you're helping people navigate the complexities of worldview, of politics, of even theology, your misses are consequential, and some of our misses were quite consequential.

I think, though, that to your question, one has to have a vision for what it is that they're trying to accomplish, and one has to rightly order their priorities.

Of course, we all have a lot of competing priorities.

The Daily Wire was deliberately set up to be a for-profit organization

organization because part of our premise in setting up the company was recognizing that conservatives too often rely on nonprofit mechanisms to promulgate their worldview, while the left, which purports to hate market economics, almost exclusively uses

for-profit institutions to promulgate their worldview.

So by our own definition, we chose the less efficient and therefore less successful mechanism.

We wanted Daily Wire to be a corrective to that from the very beginning, which necessarily means that making money has to be a high priority.