Ep. 2307 - How The Radical Left Created The Horseshoe Theory Right

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How has the Democratic Party's rhetoric allegedly targeted white Christian men and what consequences does that create?

Ben Shapiro 0:00
Well, it's pretty clear that the Democratic Party has now been engaging in a campaign against white Christian men, but that's had some pretty dire consequences on the other side of the aisle as well. We're going to get into all of that. Plus, we're going to be talking about the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates and President Trump making a tariff deal kind of with the Chinese first. Since the Daily Wire launched 10 years ago, everything we've accomplished has been because of our members. Every fight we've taken on, every piece of truth we've exposed, all of it made possible by their support. Today, we're releasing Hiding in Plain Sight, a documentary so critical we're making it free for everyone on Daily Wire Plus because this is a threat every parent needs to understand.
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Ben Shapiro 1:04
Step into the fight. Help us keep delivering this type of crucial content to the world. Well, folks, we are watching a tremendous political radicalization take place in the United States. That radicalization has been most obvious on the left. There is a concomitant movement that is happening on the right. It is a splinter movement on the right that's being massaged by some of the people who have some sway in the conservative movement, at least in the commentary. And I think it's important to point out how one is leading to the other, because that is the sort of pattern in American politics. Politics generally is incredibly reactionary. people tend not to respond reasonably to provocations that are unreasonable and they tend to swivel into their own unreasonable positions and the pendulum swings ever back and forth.
Ben Shapiro 1:45
It is a rarity to find a moment of sort of clarity and reasonableness in American politics, even if the people who constitute the vast majority of the American body populace are in fact a sort of normie middle. If you look at the polls, Americans are normie middle on pretty much every issue. They are normie middle. Americans want a strong national defense but they don't want tremendous interventionism. Americans want a traditional value system but not one that has the government snooping in their bedrooms. Americans want a system of laws that makes sure that there is some basic level of social safety net, but they do not want the government taking tremendous amounts of money away from them and regulating their businesses out of existence.
Ben Shapiro 2:26
That's what the polls show. It's what the polls show every single time. America is a very politically normy country. A center-right country is basically where you would place America on the map if you're creating a sort of spectrum of countries from far right to far left. And yet our politics right now seems to be revolving around the polls. And the reason it is revolving around the polls is because you do have one party in the Democratic Party that has increasingly made it clear that there is a population they do not like. And that population that they apparently do not like is white Christian males. That is the population that must be targeted. Now, this didn't used to be the case inside the Democratic Party.
Ben Shapiro 3:04
Not at all. If you go back just about 20 years, if you go back to, say, the John Edwards campaign in 2004, The Edwards campaign was a very socialistic leaning campaign in terms of its economic policies. But it certainly didn't suggest that white Christian males were somehow bad.

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