The Ben Shapiro Show

00:00:00.000 You finally did it!

00:00:02.000 You finally did it.

00:00:03.000 You blew it up!

00:00:05.000 Donald Trump is the nominee.

00:00:07.000 After all the fighting, after all the lies, after all the conspiracy theories and bloviating and position shifting and leftism, after all the insults and the racist pandering and the economic illiteracy, after all the cruelty and the full-fledged idiocy, Donald Trump is the guy you chose.

00:00:22.000 So what does that mean?

00:00:23.000 Well,

00:00:23.000 It means that standing against Trump now means more than ever.

00:00:26.000 Early in the race, I stated repeatedly the only way to defeat Trump would be to point out to Republican primary voters he wasn't a conservative.

00:00:34.000 After all, I thought conservative voters were outraged with the Republican establishment that had caved over and over and over again to President Obama.

00:00:42.000 They'd probably want to nominate somebody who wouldn't cut deals with the wild leftists in the Democratic Party.

00:00:48.000 For once, I got it wrong.

00:00:50.000 Turns out that a huge bulk of Trump supporters don't care that he's a leftist.

00:00:53.000 They think he's a tough guy who's gonna fight for them.

00:00:56.000 They think he'll fulfill the promise emblazoned on his ridiculously idiotic and stupid-looking red Make America Great Again hat from 1985 family reunion.

00:01:05.000 They buy his two-bit promises.

00:01:07.000 They buy his stripper glitter showmanship.

00:01:09.000 They buy his foghorn bravado.

00:01:11.000 And they do so because they don't give two good dams about conservatism.

00:01:16.000 As the man who calls Trump daddy, Milo Yiannopoulos tweets, quote,

00:01:36.000 The alt-right, these people that Milo says are the future, for those who missed it, that's a group of white supremacists who unite under the banner of resistance to both the Constitution and the cultural left.

00:01:45.000 These are the people that Yiannopoulos cheerily touts as the future.

00:01:49.000 An ugly, moronic agglomeration of intelligent skinheads, stupid white supremacists, idiots who conflate everything vile with political incorrectness, and the odd Hitler fan or two.

00:01:58.000 So just the people you'd want at a dinner party.

00:02:00.000 Yiannopoulos is right about one thing.

00:02:02.000 The Trump movement does reject conservatism.

00:02:04.000 They don't care about the Constitution.

00:02:06.000 It's a passé document that must be discarded so that dear leader can lead America back to greatness again.

00:02:12.000 They don't care about the Declaration of Independence.

00:02:14.000 They're an interest group.

00:02:15.000 They want their payoff.

00:02:16.000 They don't care about traditional concepts of negative rights or economic freedom or foreign policy strength.

00:02:21.000 They don't care about conservatives.

00:02:23.000 So, conservatives have to stand against them.

00:02:26.000 As I replied to Milo, the alt-right are also barbarians.

00:02:29.000 If you fight against America's founding philosophy, you are the enemy.

00:02:33.000 Trump's something new, the something new that Yiannopoulos touts, is actually something quite old and quite un-American.

00:02:39.000 If conservatives want a future, they have to stand against Trump and his corrupt, bankrupt philosophy.

00:02:45.000 2016 could have been a time to reap the harvest of conservatism.

00:02:48.000 Instead, Donald Trump burned down the field with the help of his supporters.

00:02:52.000 It's time now to plant anew.

00:02:54.000 We should do so now, with alacrity, rather than embracing the man holding the match.

00:02:59.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:07.000 So last night was a terrible night for the country, not just because Donald Trump is the nominee, but because now we are guaranteed a choice between predator and alien.

00:03:15.000 The next president of the United States is going to suck and suck hard.

00:03:18.000 It's going to be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

00:03:21.000 Your choice is now between, as I've said before, the spawn of Satan and the Antichrist.

00:03:25.000 Hope you enjoyed it.

00:03:26.000 Thanks for playing.

00:03:28.000 It's really quite terrible.

00:03:29.000 We do have some live shots from last night from the campaign coverage.

00:03:33.000 This was conservatives last night after they received the results from Indiana making Donald Trump the nominee.

00:03:39.000 No.

00:03:44.000 No.

00:03:48.000 That's not true.

00:03:50.000 That's impossible!

00:03:52.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:53.000 And then we had a live shot of the Trump voters.

00:03:54.000 Here they were.

00:04:19.000 Yeah, thanks for that guys.

00:04:20.000 We appreciate it.

00:04:22.000 We also had a live shot from the RNC headquarters.

00:04:28.000 So yeah, it got real ugly over there.

00:04:30.000 And finally, a live shot from Hillary Clinton's headquarters at the news that she'd be facing off against the most unpopular candidate in the history of the republic.

00:04:49.000 Yes, yes indeedy-do.

00:04:51.000 So there was a wide variety of human emotion last night.

00:04:55.000 Well, you had to do it.

00:04:56.000 You just had to do it.

00:04:57.000 My theory of checkoff was correct after all.

00:04:59.000 The gun was over the mantelpiece, and the three-year-old had to lose it.

00:05:02.000 They had to use it.

00:05:04.000 They couldn't help doing it.

00:05:05.000 I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and it's like, if she's near the stove, doesn't matter how many times I've told her, the stove is hot, she's going to wobble over toward the stove in the attempt to touch it, and this time, the adults weren't in the room to prevent it, and so it turned out that it wasn't a stove.

00:05:18.000 It was a nuclear button, and the Trumpsters pushed it.

00:05:22.000 Okay, so here's where we are.

00:05:23.000 Ted Cruz,

00:05:25.000 And we will examine all the ramifications of this today.

00:05:27.000 We'll talk about whether it is time to build the coalition, whether it is time to consolidate behind Donald Trump, whether we have to get behind this terrible, horrible man in order to stop this heritant of a screeching, shrieking harpy.

00:05:41.000 And we'll get to all of that.

00:05:43.000 First, this was kind of sad.

00:05:45.000 Ted Cruz gets up and he suspends his campaign last night again.

00:05:49.000 Ted Cruz was the guy I supported.

00:05:51.000 Even when he's conceding, he's grading.

00:05:53.000 I mean, it's just that the speaking style is just awful.

00:05:56.000 It was awful the entire time.

00:05:58.000 The feeling of insincerity from Ted Cruz really doomed him in a pretty significant way in this campaign because he just felt insincere and put up against Trump's freewheeling style.

00:06:06.000 Everything seemed calculated.

00:06:08.000 It's actually forecasting forward to Hillary.

00:06:10.000 It's a good example of how a very calculated politician

00:06:14.000 From the beginning, I've said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory.

00:06:19.000 Tonight, I'm sorry to say,

00:06:43.000 It appears that path has been foreclosed.

00:06:49.000 Together, we left it all on the field in Indiana.

00:06:54.000 We gave it everything we've got.

00:06:59.000 But the voters chose another path.

00:07:04.000 And so, with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism,

00:07:12.000 For the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign.

00:07:21.000 But hear me now.

00:07:23.000 I am not suspending our fight for liberty.

00:07:26.000 Okay, and then he went on to talk about the fight for liberty and I'll talk in a little while about what we have to do next and what actually has to happen here.

00:07:33.000 We have to build a movement outside of Trumpism.

00:07:35.000 We have to build a movement that's a grassroots movement outside of the Republican Party.

00:07:38.000 It has to be a movement that is geared toward action in the cultural and media sphere.

00:07:42.000 It has to have actual targets because the truth is that as Trump has shown,

00:07:47.000 What happens in culture matters a lot more than what happens in the political sphere.

00:07:51.000 We all play every day here in the political kiddie pool.

00:07:53.000 The truth is most people are out there in the broader ocean of culture.

00:07:56.000 They don't pay attention to any of this.

00:07:58.000 When they hear Donald Trump's a bad guy, he's a racist, he says stupid things, most people don't even compute this.

00:08:02.000 They just remember the master of the universe from The Apprentice and they think that's the real guy.

00:08:07.000 Even though that's the guy who's being edited in a back room somewhere by a series of reality TV producers.

00:08:12.000 Um, so there was Cruz, you know, saying all of this.

00:08:15.000 And then, of course, it wouldn't be a complete Cruz press conference without an awkward moment.

00:08:19.000 At the very end, he turns around to embrace, I think it was his father behind him, he turns around to embrace his dad and proceeds to elbow his wife in the face.

00:08:26.000 So it's just perfect, perfect synopsis of the Cruz campaign all the way through.

00:08:31.000 And again, I don't think he ran a terrible campaign.

00:08:33.000 I just don't think he's a very good candidate.

00:08:34.000 I think he ran about as good a campaign as you can run if you're a bad candidate.

00:08:38.000 I do think that he should not have embraced Donald Trump quite so hard at the beginning.

00:08:41.000 He gave him, not just a, not just a, I'm not gonna mess with Donald.

00:08:44.000 He gave him a bear hug.

00:08:45.000 I think Donald's terrific.

00:08:46.000 I think Donald's wonderful.

00:08:48.000 It was a campaign strategy.

00:08:49.000 I understand it.

00:08:50.000 It wouldn't have helped Cruz to go after Trump.

00:08:51.000 It wouldn't have hurt Trump for Cruz to go after him.

00:08:54.000 But it certainly contributed to this feeling of insincerity.

00:08:57.000 This guy you were embracing five minutes ago, now you're turning around and saying is the worst thing that ever happened to the country.

00:09:03.000 Okay, so that was Ted Cruz.

00:09:04.000 So much for the Cruz campaign.

00:09:06.000 That's over.

00:09:06.000 And let it be known that you voters who think Hillary is so weak and Trump is going to beat her,

00:09:12.000 You just rejected the chance at having an actual, honest to God, constitutional conservative as president in favor of a bloviating, blowhard leftist who contributed money to Hillary Clinton and openly brags about how corrupt he is.

00:09:25.000 That's who you decided on.

00:09:26.000 Okay, so let's go to that guy.

00:09:28.000 Our new Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump and his coterie of geniuses, Ben Carsons and Sarah Palin and

00:09:38.000 Because we're going after Hillary Clinton.

00:09:39.000 She will not...

00:10:02.000 She will not be a great president.

00:10:03.000 She will not be a good president.

00:10:05.000 She will be a poor president.

00:10:07.000 She doesn't understand trade.

00:10:10.000 Her husband signed, perhaps in the history of the world, the single worst trade deal ever done.

00:10:18.000 It's called NAFTA.

00:10:20.000 And I was witness to the carnage over the last six weeks especially.

00:10:27.000 Okay, first of all, let's just put aside for a second the complete and utter idiocy of his economic statements there.

00:10:33.000 I mean, this is nincompoopery on a very high level.

00:10:35.000 The worst trade deal ever done?

00:10:37.000 Worse than Smoot-Hawley that led to the Great Depression?

00:10:39.000 Like, worse than that one?

00:10:42.000 Okay, NAFTA is not to blame for America's economic woes.

00:10:45.000 It was passed in the 90s, and the 90s were a boom time for the United States.

00:10:48.000 So this idea that free trade leads to bad economics, I love that his first critique of Hillary is the only thing she's right about.

00:10:55.000 Literally, of all the things in the world, Hillary is only right about one, and that is free trade.

00:10:59.000 And that's the thing that he chooses to hit her on.

00:11:00.000 It's amazing.

00:11:01.000 But this was Trump's speech.

00:11:03.000 I heard Dennis Prager this morning on his show, and I love Dennis, but Dennis was saying,

00:11:06.000 He was surprised and disappointed that Trump didn't give his vision for America.

00:11:10.000 And I thought to myself, have you not been watching him?

00:11:13.000 Have you not seen him?

00:11:15.000 Like, why would you possibly expect that this guy, the Orange God King,

00:11:21.000 That the Kool-Aid man, why would you expect that he was gonna give some sort of highfalutin speech about what America will be when he's president?

00:11:27.000 Like, that's not what he's done at any point.

00:11:29.000 At no point has he ever said this.

00:11:30.000 He's just done what he's good at, which is diagnosing the problem, and then failing to come up with any solution.

00:11:37.000 He's doing the same thing that everybody else can do.

00:11:39.000 He's just saying it out loud, and then his solutions suck.

00:11:42.000 But Trump was trying to be more presidential last night, so here he was saying that Ted Cruz, trying to be nice to Ted Cruz after spending months saying his wife is ugly, and saying that his father tried to assassinate John F. Kennedy, and saying that Ted Cruz is the greatest liar in human history.

00:11:58.000 In history, not just in this election cycle.

00:12:00.000 In history, he's the greatest liar.

00:12:02.000 Like, in the reams of liars of human history.

00:12:07.000 It goes something like Judas, Ted Cruz, right?

00:12:12.000 That's according to Donald Trump.

00:12:14.000 So here's Donald Trump trying to make nice with Ted Cruz because now he's supposed to be presidential.

00:12:19.000 Here we go.

00:12:20.000 And just so you understand, Ted Cruz, I don't know if he likes me or if he doesn't like me, but he is one hell of a competitor.

00:12:28.000 He is a tough, smart guy.

00:12:37.000 And he has got an amazing future.

00:12:42.000 He's got an amazing future.

00:12:44.000 So I want to congratulate Ted.

00:12:46.000 And I know how tough it is.

00:12:47.000 It's tough.

00:12:49.000 It's tough.

00:12:49.000 I've had some moments where it was not looking so good.

00:12:53.000 And it's not a great feeling.

00:12:56.000 And so I understand how Ted feels and Heidi and their whole beautiful family.

00:13:02.000 And I want to just say, though, that

00:13:04.000 One tough competitor.

00:13:06.000 Okay, so now he's being nice to Ted Cruz after basically saying that he's the worst person who ever lived.

00:13:11.000 Now, everybody was saying last night there are a lot of optimistic Republicans and they were thinking, okay, so he got nominated.

00:13:18.000 All right, we're gonna have to get behind him now.

00:13:20.000 We're gonna have to get behind him.

00:13:21.000 We'll talk about these quizlings in a second.

00:13:23.000 We have to get behind him.

00:13:24.000 It's important that we get behind Donald Trump to stop Hillary Clinton.

00:13:27.000 We'll go through all of these arguments in just a moment.

00:13:29.000 Because he'll moderate.

00:13:30.000 You know, he'll turn into the presidential guy he's promised that he will be.

00:13:33.000 He's promised us.

00:13:34.000 Now that he's locked it up, he's fought his fight, and now he's gonna move on to other enemies.

00:13:39.000 Then came the morning.

00:13:41.000 And as I said yesterday, Deuteronomy 28, you wake up in the next morning and you think, boy, wasn't it nice when it was last night?

00:13:47.000 And that's Donald Trump.

00:13:48.000 So this morning, Donald Trump was on Good Morning America and George Stephanopoulos asked him about his smear of Rafael Cruz yesterday.

00:13:55.000 Asked him about his ridiculous claim that Rafael Cruz was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

00:14:01.000 This is the guy you morons nominated.

00:14:04.000 And here was Donald Trump's response.

00:14:06.000 Remember, he finished off Cruz.

00:14:07.000 Cruz is done, right?

00:14:07.000 Cruz is out of the race.

00:14:09.000 It doesn't hurt him at all to just say, you know, I was citing a National Enquirer piece and maybe it was inaccurate of me and I shouldn't have done it.

00:14:17.000 It wouldn't hurt him an iota to do that.

00:14:19.000 It would help him pick up some of the Cruz support.

00:14:22.000 Here's Donald Trump not doing that because he's pathologically incapable of that.

00:14:26.000 Do you owe his father an apology for saying he was with Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK's assassination?

00:14:32.000 All I was doing was referring to a picture that was reported in a magazine, and I think they didn't deny it.

00:14:38.000 I don't think anybody denied it.

00:14:40.000 Now, I don't know what it was exactly, but it was a major story in a major publication.

00:14:45.000 And it was picked up by many other publications.

00:14:47.000 It was the National Enquirer, and even the expert at their site had said it couldn't be true.

00:14:51.000 The National Enquirer gave you John Edwards.

00:14:54.000 It gave you O.J.

00:14:55.000 Simpson.

00:14:55.000 It gave you many, many things.

00:14:57.000 I mean, you can't knock the National Enquirer.

00:14:59.000 It's brought many, many things to light, not all of them pleasant.

00:15:04.000 The fact is that it was a cover story on the National Enquirer.

00:15:08.000 It was picked up by many

00:15:09.000 So no apology?

00:15:19.000 I'm just referring to an article that appeared.

00:15:21.000 I mean, it has nothing to do with me.

00:15:23.000 Okay, so no.

00:15:24.000 He's going to double down on it.

00:15:25.000 It has nothing to do with him.

00:15:26.000 He just mentioned it.

00:15:27.000 He's the one who promulgated it.

00:15:28.000 By the way, the other outlets that mentioned this idiotic National Enquirer story, those outlets debunked it repeatedly.

00:15:34.000 But there's Trump.

00:15:35.000 That's Trump.

00:15:36.000 And here's the great unifier Trump, right?

00:15:39.000 What I'm hearing now, you know, because I'm a prominent Never Trump guy, I'm not going to vote for him.

00:15:42.000 Now, Never Trump is based on the notion that Donald Trump will not change.

00:15:45.000 If magically he strips off his face tomorrow,

00:15:48.000 And underneath is Ronald Reagan, who had been hiding there.

00:15:50.000 They resuscitated him and put him under Donald Trump's skin, and he's a completely different guy.

00:15:55.000 Obviously, evidence changes the basis of my statement.

00:15:59.000 If Trump remains as Trump is, I will not vote for him.

00:16:01.000 He's a disgrace to the Republican Party.

00:16:02.000 He's a disgrace to politics.

00:16:04.000 Okay, Trump was supposed to, though, bring everybody together, right?

00:16:07.000 He's gonna reach out to all the people he alienated, and now we're all gonna come together, big group hug, and then we're gonna turn on Hillary and go whale on her.

00:16:14.000 Okay, so Donald Trump was interviewed by Politico yesterday, and Donald Trump said that we don't need to come together.

00:16:23.000 He said there are certain people he doesn't want in his coalition.

00:16:26.000 Here we go.

00:16:27.000 The question is, I do love self-funding, and I don't want anything for myself, but we do need money for the party.

00:16:34.000 The party will come together.

00:16:36.000 I don't think it's imperative that the entire party come together.

00:16:39.000 I don't want everybody.

00:16:40.000 I don't even want certain people that were extraordinarily nasty.

00:16:44.000 Let them go their own way.

00:16:46.000 Let them wait eight years.

00:16:48.000 Or let them wait 16 years or whatever because I think we're going to have a great success against probably Hillary because the system is totally rigged against Bernie.

00:16:56.000 I've been totally rigged against him.

00:16:58.000 So they can wait eight years.

00:16:59.000 So those conservatives who don't like him, the conservatives who say he's both insufficiently conservative and he doesn't have presidential temperament, that he's a dangerous man who is narcissistic in the extreme, that he has authoritarian impulses, those people, he says, well, we can live without them.

00:17:13.000 We don't need them as part of our team.

00:17:15.000 It's amazing how quickly he throws those people off.

00:17:18.000 Literally within hours of winning the nomination, he throws those people off.

00:17:21.000 Yet I seem to remember a time when he was asked about David Duke and the KKK,

00:17:25.000 And he just couldn't bring himself on national television to condemn them because it was two days before a Louisiana primary.

00:17:32.000 Which is to say that he's comfortable with some people supporting him and he's perfectly fine with others not supporting him, and that's a little bit telling.

00:17:38.000 Okay, so there's Donald Trump, your presidential nominee.

00:17:42.000 Astonishing.

00:17:43.000 Astonishing.

00:17:44.000 So, here's what's going to happen next.

00:17:45.000 First, there's going to be the building of the myth.

00:17:47.000 So, the media has an interest in this being a horse race.

00:17:49.000 So, the media have sort of a conflict here.

00:17:51.000 They don't like Trump as much as they like Hillary.

00:17:53.000 They do like Trump because he raises the ratings.

00:17:54.000 So, Trump versus Hillary is clash of the awful, awful titans.

00:18:00.000 And it's Godzilla vs Mothra and they think that this is going to be good for them.

00:18:04.000 So now what you're going to get from the media is a lot of, oh, this is going to be a competitive race.

00:18:08.000 Oh, it's just going to be so competitive.

00:18:10.000 Now, I'm not saying that it won't be competitive.

00:18:12.000 I'm just saying that the narrative from here for the next few weeks is going to be how competitive this race really is, how Hillary is going to start to fall apart.

00:18:19.000 In the face of Trump's Machiavellian manipulations, even though, by the way, latest poll out, Trump down 13 points to Hillary Clinton, 13.

00:18:27.000 Worth noting at this point in the election cycle with Mitt Romney, he was up by almost double digits over Barack Obama before losing.

00:18:33.000 In any case, Trump is losing by double digits.

00:18:36.000 We'll see if that gets better or worse for him.

00:18:38.000 And 12 million votes in the Republican primaries is not quite the same thing as 70 million votes that you're going to need in order to win this election cycle.

00:18:46.000 Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post.

00:18:48.000 He's building up the myth that Hillary is going to experience some bad times and Trump will come back.

00:18:52.000 Here he is on MSNBC.

00:18:55.000 And I think there are going to be some leaks that are going to be very damaging to Hillary Clinton.

00:18:59.000 Look, what she did was an act of recklessness and entitlement that there's no excuse for, and she's going to have to go to the FBI under oath and explain why she did this.

00:19:12.000 And it'll be the first time that she'll have to give a really straight explanation, and it's not going to be pretty.

00:19:17.000 But it's all part of this distrust, crooked Hillary, as Trump is going to play it.

00:19:24.000 Okay, so this is the idea that Trump's going to be competitive.

00:19:27.000 And meanwhile, you've got the Republican Party saying, we want consolidation.

00:19:31.000 We want consolidation.

00:19:33.000 To which I have two words, only one of which is printable.

00:19:36.000 Okay, the second one is you.

00:19:38.000 Okay, you want consolidation behind this guy that you allowed to gain control of the party?

00:19:42.000 You want consolidation behind this guy?

00:19:44.000 You can all just go, you know what.

00:19:46.000 So, Reince Priebus is the head of the RNC.

00:19:49.000 He came out last night and he tweeted,

00:19:58.000 Hashtag, go screw yourself, dude.

00:19:59.000 I have no interest in backing you.

00:20:01.000 I have no interest in backing your party.

00:20:03.000 I have no interest in backing your boy, Donald Trump, who is a leftist.

00:20:07.000 He is a leftist through and through.

00:20:09.000 I have no interest in pretending that he's anything but that.

00:20:11.000 I'm not going to pretend that he's a conservative or a conservative standard bearer.

00:20:15.000 And the reason for that is, if he's bearing the conservative standard, he's burning it down.

00:20:19.000 It doesn't exist anymore.

00:20:20.000 We have to stand aside from him and say, that's not us.

00:20:23.000 That's not us.

00:20:24.000 That's not our guy.

00:20:26.000 Now, there can be an open debate whether you can stand.

00:20:29.000 I think there's a problem if you stand apart from Trump and say, yeah, but we'll still back him.

00:20:33.000 He's not our guy.

00:20:34.000 You know, we don't like him that much, but he's still better than that guy.

00:20:36.000 I'll still vote for him.

00:20:38.000 This seems to me insufficient.

00:20:40.000 And it's and it's a problem because the fact is that if the way the reason you vote for him is because you want him to win.

00:20:46.000 Yes or no?

00:20:46.000 Yes.

00:20:47.000 The reason you vote for Trump is because you want Trump to win.

00:20:50.000 If you want Trump to win and he becomes the President of the United States, if you get your wish, he's the President.

00:20:55.000 As the Republican President, he is the head of the Republican Party.

00:20:58.000 As the head of the Republican Party, he is the de facto head of the conservative movement in the United States.

00:21:03.000 If you're voting for him, you are actively saying you want him to be the de facto head of the conservative movement in the United States.

00:21:09.000 There is no way around that logic.

00:21:11.000 You can still criticize him from the outside.

00:21:12.000 It's going to have very little effect, just the way the conservative critiques of George W. Bush didn't have a lot of impact on the conservative movement, which moved markedly to the left during the George W. Bush administration and continued to move to the left through McCain and through Romney.

00:21:26.000 So Ryan says we should all get together.

00:21:28.000 Trump's the presumptive nominee.

00:21:30.000 Newt Gingrich, who has been a de facto Trump surrogate, he was on Fox News, of course, of course, and of course, he was on Hannity, of course, of course, talking about how Trump was going to expand the reach and breadth of the Republican Party, presumably by alienating 70% of all people.

00:21:47.000 So here is Newt Gingrich and his infinite electoral genius.

00:21:51.000 And I think there is a potential for Trump to bring into a much larger tent

00:21:58.000 And then that's the key.

00:21:59.000 This will be a much bigger Republican party three months from now.

00:22:03.000 Oh, will it?

00:22:04.000 Oh, will it?

00:22:05.000 How?

00:22:06.000 So he says that he'll be bigger Republican Party.

00:22:08.000 I assume that means that he's going to swivel to the left.

00:22:10.000 So this is the conflict that you have now inside the pro-Trump camp is, is he going to consolidate the people he alienated during the primaries, or is he going to move to the left to fight Hillary during the general?

00:22:20.000 And you can't really have it both ways, but they want it both ways, so that's how it'll be.

00:22:24.000 He has legitimately, I have to say this is just humorous, he's got legitimately the worst surrogate on the planet, Ben Carson, working for him.

00:22:30.000 And Ben Carson is

00:22:34.000 I don't know how you could possibly have a worse surrogate than Ben Carson.

00:22:37.000 I mean, honest to God.

00:22:38.000 The guy was great at brain surgery and he's terrible at this.

00:22:40.000 And here is Dr. Ben Carson talking about why you should vote for Donald Trump.

00:22:46.000 He's moving in the direction of trying to unify the party, and I think that is an extremely positive finding.

00:22:54.000 You know, I know Donald Trump, and I've had a chance to talk with him in private on a number of occasions, and he is a very reasonable and accommodating person.

00:23:05.000 And all you have to do is talk to the people who know him, who've worked with him for a long period of time, and you'll see he is not the monster that many people try to portray him.

00:23:15.000 He's not a monster.

00:23:16.000 He's just a man.

00:23:17.000 He's a nice man.

00:23:19.000 And I've met with him, and he's been nice to me, personally.

00:23:22.000 And I think that if I were really, truly to be nice to him, he would also be nice to me.

00:23:29.000 Yes, he called me a pedophile in public, but, you know, that's just things.

00:23:36.000 Like what?

00:23:38.000 His job for the past eight months has been we get to know him as a presidential candidate and you're telling us ignore everything you know about the man.

00:23:44.000 I know him down deep.

00:23:45.000 He likes his dog.

00:23:47.000 I don't care.

00:23:48.000 But this is surrogate.

00:23:50.000 Oh, we're all going to get together.

00:23:51.000 We're all going to get together.

00:23:52.000 Bobby Jindal, I think, made the most compelling case for voting Trump.

00:23:55.000 And as you'll see, I don't think it's particularly compelling.

00:23:57.000 Bobby Jindal is a conservative.

00:23:59.000 He's somebody who I thought would have been a much better candidate in this election cycle than a lot of the other folks who gained prominence.

00:24:05.000 Governor of Louisiana, here's what he had to say about this.

00:24:08.000 Secondly, look, I think Donald Trump's going to have the hardest time beating Hillary of all the Republican candidates that ran for president.

00:24:14.000 Having said that, third, however, if he is the nominee, I will be voting for him.

00:24:18.000 I will be supporting him.

00:24:20.000 Quite simply because I think there are too many important issues.

00:24:23.000 I think at least there's a chance he would get rid of Obamacare.

00:24:25.000 I think there's 0% chance that Hillary Clinton would do that.

00:24:28.000 So yes, if it comes down to a binary choice between Donald Trump, if he is the nominee, I'm going to be supporting him.

00:24:34.000 I'm not happy about it.

00:24:36.000 I don't think he's the best qualified candidate.

00:24:37.000 I don't think he's the one most likely to be successful, but I would vote for him over Hillary Clinton.

00:24:42.000 So this is the typical line, and I've heard this from a lot of people I'm very friendly with.

00:24:46.000 People who say, okay, so yeah, he's a complete hurricane of human feces, but Hillary's a double hurricane of human feces, and therefore I'm still going to vote for him.

00:24:55.000 Again, I've said this before, I'll say it again.

00:24:58.000 If your timeline is the next seven months, if you think the country is over in four years, by all means, go and vote for Trump.

00:25:05.000 By all means, go and vote for Trump.

00:25:06.000 If all you care about is that we're already speeding 70 miles an hour toward the cliff, Hillary will put us at 90 miles an hour, Trump will take us at 75 miles an hour toward the cliff, by all means, vote for Trump.

00:25:14.000 Just recognize that when you do, what you're actually doing is, again, making him your standard bearer and burning out the reverse gear.

00:25:21.000 That car no longer has a reverse.

00:25:23.000 There's no way to throw it into reverse now.

00:25:24.000 Because Donald Trump has converted an entire generation into alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos followers.

00:25:30.000 That's what he's done.

00:25:31.000 He's taking an entire generation of people who could have been conservatives, and he's telling them, you get in the back of this Trump train, and now we're gonna run down those conservatives.

00:25:38.000 The conservatives are the people who are tied to the tracks.

00:25:41.000 Those people have to be put out of the way.

00:25:42.000 The conservatives are Trump's enemies.

00:25:44.000 They're not his friends.

00:25:45.000 They're not his friends.

00:25:46.000 People like Bobby Jindal are not allies of Trump.

00:25:48.000 They're convenient allies of Trump, until such time as he no longer needs them, and then they become part of the fuel for the Trump train.

00:25:56.000 That's how this works.

00:25:57.000 And this is why I'm quite frustrated with all these folks who are immediately schwifting.

00:26:02.000 And it just demonstrates again, this is why anybody who's doing this, you were the Republican establishment that brought this about.

00:26:09.000 The anti-establishment feeling that was created inside the Republican Party was predicated on the notion

00:26:15.000 The Republicans kept caving over and over and over to Barack Obama.

00:26:19.000 They kept caving to Obama.

00:26:20.000 They kept saying big things.

00:26:21.000 We're going to fight Obamacare.

00:26:22.000 Nope.

00:26:23.000 We're going to fight amnesty.

00:26:24.000 Nope.

00:26:24.000 We're going to fight the Iran deal.

00:26:26.000 Nope.

00:26:26.000 We're going to fight his budget increases.

00:26:28.000 Nope.

00:26:28.000 And they kept making these big promises, and then they compromised, saying, well, the alternative would be even worse.

00:26:33.000 The alternative would be we would lose elections to the Democrats, and they would do even more terrible things.

00:26:39.000 And Republicans, after a number of these elections, we said, you know what?

00:26:44.000 Enough.

00:26:44.000 You guys are terrible.

00:26:45.000 You keep putting bad deals on us.

00:26:47.000 So what happens?

00:26:49.000 The reactionary voters go full reactionary, but they don't go to Ted Cruz.

00:26:52.000 They go to Donald Trump, who's a leftist establishmentarian.

00:26:56.000 And then the establishment caters to Trump, because this is what they do, always.

00:27:00.000 Well, we better go for Trump, because otherwise we'll get an even worse deal.

00:27:03.000 We'll always get a... There's always a worse deal.

00:27:04.000 Guess what, folks?

00:27:05.000 There's always a worse deal.

00:27:07.000 There's always a worse deal.

00:27:08.000 There's a worse deal than Hillary.

00:27:09.000 There's a worse deal than Sanders.

00:27:11.000 There's a worse deal than Trump.

00:27:12.000 There's a worse deal than everybody.

00:27:13.000 The question is, where do you personally draw your moral line?

00:27:18.000 Where do you personally draw your moral line?

00:27:21.000 Where is it?

00:27:23.000 Can you vote for somebody like Trump who's going to take the heart out of your ideology just because there's somebody worse?

00:27:27.000 There's always somebody worse in the room.

00:27:29.000 There's always somebody who's going to be more of a problem than the person you think is going to be the good guy.

00:27:34.000 But if you really think that Donald Trump is going to be your savior, if you're willing to burn out the possibility, if you're willing to take the bird in the hand rather than gamble on the two in the bush, knowing that the bird in the hand is poisonous and it's just going to poison you more slowly than the snake that it's going to kill,

00:27:51.000 You know, then you're not thinking long-term enough.

00:27:52.000 You're not thinking about movements.

00:27:53.000 You're not thinking... Elections are, as I put it in a column today, elections are just the wave breaking on the shore.

00:28:01.000 Where politics really gets done is where that wave started, miles offshore, the currents offshore.

00:28:07.000 But let me just say from what I've seen up until now,

00:28:37.000 Heard from Trump and watched him.

00:28:40.000 I don't think I'd be capable of voting for Donald Trump.

00:28:45.000 Question is, what do I do?

00:28:46.000 I don't know yet.

00:28:48.000 He doesn't know yet, and I think there are a lot of people who feel that way.

00:28:51.000 A lot of people who feel that way.

00:28:52.000 Now, again, Trump could win.

00:28:55.000 He could.

00:28:56.000 I'm not going to pretend that Trump has no possibility of winning.

00:28:59.000 Hillary Clinton is terrible at this, and Donald Trump is a street fighter, which was the only affirmative case for him in the first place.

00:29:05.000 Here's Hillary Clinton yesterday talking about Donald Trump and how mean he is.

00:29:09.000 But what he was saying and going after my qualifications is very familiar to a lot of women.

00:29:14.000 And, you know, we're not going to be counted out anymore.

00:29:16.000 We're going to stand up and express our opinions.

00:29:20.000 We're going to claim what is rightfully ours in the workplace, in our society, in our economy, in our political system.

00:29:28.000 And I've been thrilled by the response to his negative comments, because most women see it not just as about me.

00:29:35.000 They see it about themselves.

00:29:36.000 They see it about their own situations.

00:29:38.000 And there's been an outpouring of support.

00:29:41.000 We've raised millions of dollars.

00:29:43.000 We came up with the idea of a woman's card, which unfortunately doesn't give you a discount, even though we don't get equal pay for the work we do.

00:29:50.000 You can't show it when you're checking out at the supermarket and say, hey, you know, I want a discount.

00:29:55.000 But we're making a point.

00:29:57.000 You know, he can continue to attack me.

00:29:59.000 That's fine.

00:30:00.000 I really, you know, don't mind at all.

00:30:02.000 But I'm going to stand up for the people of this country, women and men.

00:30:07.000 But as he goes after women, as he goes after literally every group, I'm going to be their voice.

00:30:13.000 And I'm going to say, wait a minute, you know, we have a lot to contribute to our country and we're doing it.

00:30:19.000 Okay, so Hillary, you can see she's excited, by the way.

00:30:22.000 You can see that she's upbeat here.

00:30:24.000 She's about to learn differently, because this is so boring and so terrible, and if she thinks that she's gonna Jeb Bush her way through this thing, didn't work for Jeb Bush, didn't work for Hillary either.

00:30:33.000 She's gonna have to come up with something slightly better than this to help her.

00:30:37.000 The media, by the way, they might think that they can stop Trump.

00:30:40.000 They may have created a Frankenstein monster here.

00:30:41.000 This is Jeremy Boring, Managing Editor.

00:30:43.000 This is his theory, is that the media have now created a Frankenstein monster and Trump they can't control.

00:30:49.000 That basically the media have crafted this persona of Trump that is immune to all of the charges of racism, sexism, and bigotry and all the rest of it.

00:30:58.000 I'm more skeptical than he is, but it's possible.

00:31:01.000 It is possible.

00:31:03.000 So that's the story as far as Hillary versus Trump.

00:31:06.000 Now I want to give a quick rundown, a very quick rundown, of five arguments that are being made for why you should vote for Donald Trump and why I think these are insufficient.

00:31:14.000 First, but Hillary's worse argument.

00:31:16.000 As I say, there's always somebody who's worse.

00:31:18.000 That does not explain why you should hire a murderer to do your dirty work.

00:31:25.000 This idea that there's always someone worse out there, right.

00:31:27.000 But you have moral standards, so that doesn't exactly watch.

00:31:30.000 But Trump will be better than Hillary.

00:31:32.000 So this is now an affirmative case for Trump that he will be better than Hillary.

00:31:34.000 I see no evidence of this whatsoever.

00:31:36.000 There are people who says, well, he'll work with the Republican Congress.

00:31:39.000 I think he's more likely to cut deals with the Democratic Congress than he is to work with a Republican Congress.

00:31:44.000 And the fact is that Donald Trump is an authoritarian.

00:31:48.000 I think that he'll bully his own party far more than he far more than he concedes to his own party.

00:31:53.000 He's not somebody who is subject to the vagaries of congressional manipulation.

00:31:57.000 He'll just keep going to the public, he'll just keep ensconcing himself in a bubble full of people who love him, and then he'll assume that he can do whatever he wants.

00:32:04.000 The Supreme Court argument, the people who say, well, you know, Hillary Clinton.

00:32:08.000 Donald Trump, he might not appoint someone bad to the Supreme Court.

00:32:14.000 Donald Trump will definitely appoint someone bad to the Supreme Court, number one.

00:32:17.000 The reason I say this is because Donald Trump does not want to appoint someone to the Supreme Court who, one, will vote to restrict his executive power, two, will vote to restrict any of his social leftism, three, will vote to restrict any of his actual feelings on gun rights.

00:32:31.000 He is not a pro-gun guy.

00:32:32.000 He has turned into an anti-assault weapons ban guy in the last 35 seconds.

00:32:37.000 Ronald Reagan got it half wrong and half right.

00:32:39.000 George H.W.

00:32:40.000 got it half wrong and half right.

00:32:41.000 George W. got it half wrong and half right with his Supreme Court picks.

00:32:45.000 If you think that Trump is going to do as well as any of those guys, you have another thing coming and he's not going to pander.

00:32:50.000 All the names he's throwing out there right now, these will go by the wayside as soon as he has a Democratic Senate, which is likely to happen.

00:32:56.000 And if he has a Democratic Senate, he's just going to go along to get along.

00:32:59.000 He's going to throw up somebody who is not good.

00:33:01.000 So this is, if that's your sole reason for voting Trump,

00:33:04.000 I don't buy it.

00:33:05.000 Beyond that, I happen to think the Supreme Court is not as important an institution as everybody else thinks it is.

00:33:10.000 It's an outrageous institution, but I don't think they're all that important.

00:33:13.000 I think the Obergefell decision, for example, still requires the executive branch to enforce it.

00:33:18.000 I think that there are states that have resisted successfully bad Supreme Court decisions and continue to do so on issues up to and including guns.

00:33:26.000 I think that's what will happen.

00:33:28.000 If you are placing your hope for the future of conservatism on Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, I would suggest that more hope should be placed in governors like Greg Abbott in the state of Texas and other Republican governors who actually predominate at the state level.

00:33:43.000 Fourth argument is that if you sit out, that's moral cowardice.

00:33:46.000 You have to make a choice.

00:33:47.000 You have to make a choice.

00:33:49.000 No.

00:33:50.000 Voting, because you're pressured to do so, that seems to be the greatest moral cowardice of all.

00:33:56.000 I don't feel a compunction to vote between two Democrats, because that's not the way that life works.

00:34:01.000 I don't feel the need to vote between two Democrats.

00:34:04.000 I don't endorse either of them.

00:34:05.000 Voting is an act of endorsement.

00:34:07.000 I will not endorse Donald Trump.

00:34:09.000 Finally, the down ticket races.

00:34:10.000 If you don't show up for Trump, you won't show up for anybody else.

00:34:12.000 Nope.

00:34:12.000 You should show up for everybody else.

00:34:14.000 You shouldn't vote for Trump.

00:34:15.000 That's my view.

00:34:16.000 Those are the five most common arguments.

00:34:17.000 Okay.

00:34:19.000 So now some things that I like, and some things that I hate.

00:34:22.000 So...

00:34:23.000 It's so wrong!

00:34:52.000 By rights, we shouldn't even be here.

00:34:57.000 But we are.

00:35:10.000 It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

00:35:14.000 The ones that really mattered.

00:35:17.000 Full of darkness and danger, they were.

00:35:20.000 And sometimes you didn't want to know the end.

00:35:23.000 Because how could the end be happy?

00:35:28.000 How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

00:35:39.000 But in the end, it's only a passing thing.

00:35:43.000 This shadow.

00:35:45.000 Even darkness must pass.

00:35:48.000 A new day will come.

00:35:51.000 And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer.

00:35:56.000 Those were the stories that stayed with you.

00:35:59.000 That meant something.

00:36:01.000 Even if you were too small to understand why.

00:36:05.000 But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.

00:36:08.000 I know now.

00:36:11.000 Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't.

00:36:17.000 They kept going.

00:36:20.000 Because they were holding on to something.

00:36:25.000 What are we holding on to, Sam?

00:36:40.000 There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo.

00:36:44.000 And it's worth fighting for.

00:36:48.000 Yep, there it is.

00:36:49.000 In a nutshell, that's basically it.

00:36:52.000 But there is no brighter tomorrow if you embrace the darkness.

00:36:54.000 If you just say, okay, the best it's ever going to be is Trumpism.

00:36:57.000 The best it's ever going to be is Donald Trump.

00:36:58.000 If you think the best it's ever going to be is Donald Trump, the best it's ever going to be is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

00:37:03.000 The best it's ever going to be for the conservative movement is the hope of a demagogue like Donald Trump.

00:37:08.000 Then there is no brighter tomorrow.

00:37:09.000 If you want a brighter tomorrow, you have to stand for it and you have to stand for it right now and you have to start building outside.

00:37:13.000 So here's what we're going to do.

00:37:15.000 Here's what we're going to do.

00:37:15.000 First of all, you should register at Daily Wire so you can email me directly and we'll read your emails in the bags.

00:37:22.000 But the fact is that we're going to build a consolidated movement.

00:37:24.000 We're going to spend the next...

00:37:25.000 Several years building up a database of all the people who actually believe in conservatism.

00:37:30.000 We're going to be taking concerted action more and more here at The Daily Wire to make change in the media.

00:37:35.000 We're going to be looking at ways to make change in the culture.

00:37:38.000 We will be targeting politicians.

00:37:40.000 We will be going after people who don't hold to conservatism.

00:37:43.000 Here's how we're going to cover the rest of this election cycle, okay?

00:37:45.000 Because there are people who say, well, if you don't back one of them, how are you going to cover it?

00:37:48.000 Here's how I'm going to cover it as a conservative.

00:37:51.000 I'm gonna cover this just like I always did.

00:37:53.000 I started off as somebody who was open to Trump.

00:37:55.000 I was willing to give him a chance.

00:37:57.000 And as the layers of Donald Trump peeled off and revealed the leftist rot underneath, that's when I got off the bandwagon and I said I would not vote for this man.

00:38:05.000 I will hold both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to the standard of conservatism.

00:38:09.000 This probably means that Trump will actually do slightly better than Hillary in my coverage, because Donald Trump is a broken clock who is right twice a day.

00:38:17.000 Hillary Clinton is a clock that was obliterated by a nuclear explosion in 1952 in New Mexico.

00:38:23.000 Okay, so the fact is Hillary will never be right, except maybe on trade, and Donald Trump will likely be wrong a lot, but he might be right occasionally.

00:38:30.000 We'll cover it just straight, okay?

00:38:31.000 You'll get the full story here.

00:38:33.000 You can make up your own mind whether where you draw your line, whether this is a line you want to draw, whether you think the hope for the Republic lies in embracing Trumpism, or whether you think we should hold out for a brighter day and a better tomorrow.

00:38:44.000 That's how we're going to proceed from here on in here on The Ben Shapiro Show, as well as at The Daily Wire.

00:38:49.000 We're going to call it like we see it.

00:38:51.000 Principle above god-kings.

00:38:52.000 Principle above people.

00:38:54.000 Principle above individuals.

00:38:56.000 It was never about Ted Cruz versus Donald Trump.

00:38:58.000 It was always about the Constitution and constitutional conservatism above all.

00:39:02.000 And I am not going to allow anybody, or I'm certainly going to fight, to prevent people who want to undermine that in the name of some alt-right garbage.

00:39:10.000 Some nasty nationalist progressive ideology.

00:39:15.000 Some nasty populist

00:39:17.000 Bizarro world strength to overcome the greatest philosophy in the history of mankind and the one that created this country.

00:39:25.000 I'm not going to stand still while that happens just in the name of victory for a powerful man.

00:39:29.000 That's not what I'm going to do.

00:39:31.000 I don't find my fulfillment in following around powerful men.

00:39:35.000 I don't find my fulfillment in holding the train in the

00:39:40.000 Okay, so a couple of things that I hate.

00:39:45.000 Speaking of holding the train in the Donald Trump battalion, when I say that Donald Trump is going to smear conservatism, I just want to give you a couple of examples of how it is that the rest of this election cycle is going to go from the left.

00:39:55.000 Because I think that a lot of Trump supporters have been chortling at how Trump tweets the media.

00:40:00.000 They've been chortling.

00:40:01.000 Okay, well, you know, he knows how to handle the media.

00:40:03.000 He's been doing great.

00:40:05.000 Here's how things are actually going to go for Trump supporters from now on.

00:40:07.000 Get ready, folks, because you wanted this, you got it.

00:40:09.000 Here comes the tsunami.

00:40:11.000 And if he goes down, it's going to be on you.

00:40:13.000 You don't get to make bad decisions and then blame me for your bad decisions.

00:40:16.000 I warned you I wasn't going to go along with this.

00:40:19.000 So don't get all upset at me when I don't go along with something I didn't want to go along with.

00:40:22.000 You made this call.

00:40:24.000 So, CNN's Jeffrey Lord, who used to be an intelligent guy.

00:40:28.000 I don't know what happened to Jeffrey.

00:40:30.000 Jeffrey is on CNN and he's a Trump backer.

00:40:32.000 He's a Trump surrogate.

00:40:34.000 And he's asked about the Cruz conspiracy theories.

00:40:37.000 Here's what this election is going to look like in a nutshell.

00:40:40.000 We all are talking about, say, this National Enquirer thing.

00:40:44.000 I mean, I have to tell you, when we're talking about Indiana, do you really think, does anybody really think that somebody who's lost their carrier is talking about this or they're talking about their job?

00:40:53.000 So why is Trump?

00:40:56.000 But he has been talking about Carrier.

00:40:59.000 He has been talking about Carrier.

00:41:00.000 Do you admire Donald Trump?

00:41:01.000 Huh?

00:41:01.000 Do you admire Donald Trump?

00:41:02.000 Sure, sure, of course I do.

00:41:03.000 David, I mean... Do you think this is a good standard for the presidency?

00:41:06.000 David, I think that we are taking this far too seriously.

00:41:10.000 Far, far, far too seriously.

00:41:12.000 When you sit around and talk with regular folks who are not inside the Beltway, they talk about this Ted Cruz thing and they laugh.

00:41:19.000 They think it's hilarious.

00:41:21.000 Okay, they think it's hilarious.

00:41:22.000 This is what we're gonna be relegated to.

00:41:23.000 We're gonna be relegated to, oh, our guy's just a joke and everybody laughs at it.

00:41:28.000 I hope they all enjoy that, because that's the direction.

00:41:30.000 This is moving in an anxious, Jeffrey Lord.

00:41:32.000 Bobby Knight, who's the former Indiana basketball coach who endorsed Donald Trump, he was on, what is this, ABC News?

00:41:39.000 CNN?

00:41:39.000 Okay, so this is on CNN, and he was asked also about Donald Trump's foolishness, and here's Bobby Knight flailing about for an answer.

00:41:48.000 Among other things, he says he wants to temporarily ban Muslims from coming into the United States.

00:41:54.000 Does that concern you?

00:41:57.000 Well, no.

00:41:58.000 I mean, what does... I don't even know what controversial means.

00:42:01.000 Well, banning Muslims... A lot of people think banning Muslims... A lot of people think banning Muslims from coming to the United States is controversial.

00:42:08.000 It's un-American to prevent people from coming to the United States based on religion.

00:42:11.000 Well, that's okay.

00:42:14.000 That really doesn't mean anything to me right now, because we're talking about a guy that I think can handle things far better than anything that we've had recently.

00:42:26.000 You know, tell you one thing about Donald Trump.

00:42:29.000 There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.

00:42:33.000 I'm not sure in my lifetime I've seen anything where

00:42:38.000 Our government failed to do something for people overseas that were in trouble.

00:42:43.000 That won't happen with Donald Trump.

00:42:45.000 Those are the things I'm concerned with.

00:42:47.000 Okay, well, you know, he may be concerned with that, but that's not what the rest of the public's gonna be concerned with.

00:42:52.000 A lot of this is going to hurt, and it's gonna hurt a lot.

00:42:54.000 It's gonna hurt a lot.

00:42:55.000 The New York Times has a whole editorial today.

00:42:57.000 The Republican Party is now the party of Trump.

00:42:59.000 The Atlantic has an editorial today.

00:43:00.000 The Republican Party is the party of Trump.

00:43:03.000 It's easy to defend against leftist slander.

00:43:06.000 It's harder to defend against leftists who are telling the truth.

00:43:10.000 And the fact is that when leftists say that Donald Trump represents a brand of republicanism that is nasty, and that is cruel, and that is based on lies,

00:43:19.000 It's hard to argue with that when it's true.

00:43:21.000 It's hard to argue with that when it's true.

00:43:23.000 Okay, so we need to build a movement together.

00:43:24.000 We will do that.

00:43:25.000 We'll be doing that every day right here on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:43:29.000 Subscribe over at dailywire.com.

00:43:30.000 Join the movement.

00:43:32.000 We will be talking with each other.

00:43:33.000 It won't just be a lecture.

00:43:35.000 It'll be a conversation.

00:43:36.000 And as we move forward, we're going to need a new conservative leadership.

00:43:40.000 You want to be part of that.

00:43:41.000 I want to be part of that.

00:43:41.000 Let's do it together.

00:43:42.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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Ep. 112 - There Are Things Worth Fighting For

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