SchadenFriday: Ben Shapiro’s Short—as in Abrupt—Decline

SchadenFriday: Ben Shapiro’s Short—as in Abrupt—Decline

Once a rising star of the New Right via New Media, Ben Shapiro and his Daily Wire have spent the second Trump administration in precipitous decline. Is it simply a case of bad business decisions running into their beloved capitalistic scythe or did their audience outpace them on a race to…let’s say “the right”?


Guest: Will Sommer, senior reporter at The Bulwark.


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