Ben Shapiro Can’t Grasp What Makes Americans American
No one likes to be lectured down to in a condescending tone
Ben Shapiro is very good at talking. He is not so good at listening.
As the neocon Republican establishment and populist right traded shots over America’s affordability crisis – which has since been dubbed “Burritogate” – Shapiro jumped into the fray to complain about Americans worried about rising food prices.
“Current ‘common good conservative’ inflation messaging: $20 burritos are a human right but also every serious methodology for making them cheaper (i.e. kill the tariffs, break the unions, and deregulate the food supply chain) isn’t America First, so we need to complain a lot about how America is cooked and then surrender to Iran,” Shapiro said.
For a takedown of Shapiro’s argument, look no further than this definitive Burritogate inflation guide from the Daily Caller’s Will Upton.
But I want to address something else about Shapiro: his failure to understand Americans.
Shapiro seems to consistently mock those of us who are less than impressed by his piercing “logic” and surfeit of cold, hard “facts.”
Take this clip from mid-April, when Shapiro misled his audience by falsely claiming the Strait of Hormuz had been pried open by U.S. military might.
“Remember when they said we would never be able to open the strait? ... Guess what? Guess what? [Iran] opened the strait,” he said at the time. “They stopped messing around in the strait because they didn’t have the forward operating capacity. Their navy was, in fact, at the bottom of the sea.”
He was basically telling Americans skeptical of the war and the administration’s claims that Iran’s navy had been “obliterated” that they were idiots for ever asking questions in the first place.