In an interview with the TRIGGERnometry podcast, Ben Shapiro has summed up why right-wing politicians have nothing to offer:

Essentially you have to leave your parents, wider family and friends behind if you aren’t rich. It’s meaningless and you have to move on, sorry! There’s no such thing as community or social continuity.

What precisely does that ‘conserve’? How is this ‘conservatism’? https://t.co/Qi2jf9WpeP

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 10, 2025

Late-stage capitalism

Shapiro was talking to the wretched nerds of the TRIGGERnometry podcast. Although they established this pod to make fun of ‘triggered’ leftists, it’s become a safe place for men to wallow in their feelings:

I think I’ve misunderstood what this show is about, because these two are clearly the most triggered men I’ve ever seen https://t.co/GDqpnLHkYX

— Willem Moore (@willem_moore_uk) October 21, 2025

This is the direction of travel on the right, with the same sort of people now gleefully doing cancel culture:

how do these people claim they’re against cancel culture pic.twitter.com/VV2djypIlM

— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) October 2, 2025

In the video at the top, Shapiro says:

If you’re a young person and you can’t afford to live here, then maybe you should not live here. I mean, that is a real thing.

I know that we’ve now grown up in a society that says that you deserve to live where you grew up, but the reality is that the history of America is almost literally the opposite of that. The history of America is you go to a place where there is opportunity.

And if the opportunities are limited here and they’re not changing, then you really should try to think about other places where you have better opportunities.

Do you love your city?

Do you love your family?

Do you love you your friends?

Well tough shit, because this horrible little eyebrow wanker says you need to make way for the rich.

The reason Shapiro is so bold is because he’s misjudged why people voted for Donald Trump. While we understood Trump was a corporatist with no intention of reversing inequality, his voters believed the opposite. Mistaking the victory of Trump for a victory of right-wing ideology, figures like Shaprio are now gleefully pronouncing ‘you will have nothing, and you will thank us‘.

Oh, and it’s interesting that Shapiro uses “the history of America” to defend the worst aspects of late-stage capitalism, by the way. Interesting because America has a history of antisemitism, and yet Shapiro is currently fighting a civil war against elements of the American right on the basis that they’re ‘antisemitic’:

No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them. No to demoralization. No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit. No to anti-Americanism. No. pic.twitter.com/71TModtGWq

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 3, 2025

Sorry, Ben, but the history of America is literally the opposite of what you want.

You see how that works?

These people only give a shit about the past when it supports them taking away people’s rights.

People had other things to say too:

Populist right want to reject capitalism – however their identity is tied to being anti-left

So instead they have to blame the entire problem on migrants as it allows them to maintain capitalism but to feel like they are changing it somehow https://t.co/nuS4ES35BU

— JimmyTheGiant (@jimthegiant) November 10, 2025

I’ve never understood who Ben Shapiro appeals to

He’s not thoughtful, he’s not courageous, hes not funny or quotable.

his style is patronizing

Who’s the audience exactly that’s relating to him? https://t.co/NSPdAaFkVI

— AJAC (@AJA_Cortes) November 10, 2025

“As soon as you’re old enough to have a job, you should be priced out of your neighborhood. This is a system worth murdering millions to sustain!” https://t.co/wSEe7Xc4mY

— Orange Flaccidy (@BustyLoads619) November 11, 2025

This reminds me of when Shapiro said no one would should ever retire just keeping working until you die, as if he’d never encountered anyone who works in the trades, or spent 5 seconds thinking about what it would mean for a roofer or an electrician to never be able to retire. https://t.co/yAlHgtTCdP

— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) November 10, 2025

Some American right wingers aren’t happy either:

“You do not deserve to live where you grew up”

Whatever this is, I’m not that. https://t.co/LZjWknnsm3

— Nathan Halberstadt (@NatHalberstadt) November 10, 2025

Grim

Ben Shapiro is perhaps the single least appealing person in politics. His past success was always a mystery, and for the same reason the ongoing failures of his media empire come as no surprise.

Shapiro does have some use, however, and it’s in embodying why the corporate right have nothing to offer.

Featured image via Gage Skidmore (Wikimedia) / Pickpik

By Willem Moore

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