https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/09/ben-shapiro-daily-wire-maga-media/
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, the company co-founded by conservative pundit Ben Shapiro ranked as Facebook’s top English-language publisher for three straight months. Its sarcastic news items on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s salon visits gained millions more views than the websites of Fox News, CNN and the New York Times.
The Daily Wire’s fall from grace reflects the fragmentation of partisan media online, as centralized institutions such as Breitbart and Fox lose attention to a scattered network of podcasters, streamers and provocateurs.
The company’s brand of traditional conservatism, exemplified by Shapiro’s intense support of Israel, has clashed with right-wing creators promising a more radical brand of anti-incumbent, antiestablishment rage, she said.
Extermism rules both parties. Thoughtful figures like Shapiro on the right and Maher on the left are sidelined for not being fanatical enough.
ReplyDeleteInside Ben Shapiro’s MAGA meltdown I very much like Garnel IronheartMay 11, 2026 at 2:54 AM. Daf Hayomi today Chullin 13b
ReplyDeleteThe Gemara notes: Rabba bar Avuh holds in accordance with that which Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba says that Rabbi Yoḥanan says: The status of gentiles outside of Eretz Yisrael is not that of idol worshippers, as their worship is not motivated by faith and devotion. Rather, it is a traditional custom of their ancestors that was transmitted to them. Rav Yosef bar Minyumi says that Rav Naḥman says: There are no heretics among the nations of the world, i.e., gentile heretics do not have the halakhic status of actual heretics. The Gemara asks: With regard to what matter did Rav Naḥman state the halakha? If we say that it is with regard to slaughter, now that you said the slaughter of a Jewish heretic is forbidden, is it necessary to say the slaughter of a gentile heretic is forbidden? Rather, it is with regard to the halakha that one lowers them into a pit, i.e., one may kill a heretic, and Rav Naḥman holds that one may not kill them. But this too is difficult, as now if one lowers a Jewish heretic into a pit, is it necessary to say that one lowers a gentile heretic? Rav Ukva bar Ḥama said: It is stated with regard to accepting an offering from them, as it is taught in a baraita with regard to the verse: “When any person of you shall bring an offering” (Leviticus 1:2): The verse states: “Of you,” and not: Of all of you, to exclude the Jewish transgressor who regularly violates a prohibition. Furthermore, God states: “Of you,” to mean that among you, the Jews, I distinguished between a transgressor and other Jews, but not among the nations. One accepts an offering from all gentiles, even a heretic.
Beautiful. God states: “Of you,” to mean that among you, the Jews, I distinguished between a transgressor and other Jews, but not among the nations. One accepts an offering from all gentiles, even a heretic. Wow God distinguishes between Jewish transgressors and non-Jewish transgressors. Should we too? Useful idiots screaming genocide kill all the Jews whatever, should we distinguish between Jewish/Israeli useful idiots and such seemingly suicidal calling for death to themselves versus non-Jewish/Iranian American whatever Anti-Semites? The Gamara says Yes !