Ten years from now, what issue in American politics will we regret not paying more attention to today? Our failure to pay attention to entitlement programs is going to lead to serious consequences over the next two decades. I felt the same way when President Obama was in office. There’s a reason people want to come to the United States-our founding philosophy is the greatest in the history of mankind-and that doesn’t change regardless of president. Is America in 2018 still “a city on a hill” for the rest of the world to look up to? Of course. With that said, what’s surprised me least is his personal behavior, which hasn’t changed in the slightest. But he’s governed in a steadily conservative direction. I didn’t expect him to implement conservative policy, since he had no history of philosophical conservatism and swung wildly on issues throughout the campaign. What’s surprised me most about Donald Trump as president is… His conservative bent on policy.
But while his traditionalist views about abortion, race and transgender issues turn off many young liberals, he charts his own ideological course: He quit a job at Breitbart in 2016, calls himself “sometimes Trump,” and has come to support same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization. Thirty-four-year-old Ben Shapiro has emerged as the massively popular voice of a new kind of millennial conservatism-one that feeds on dismantling the tenets of liberalism in 2018, from feminism to “Black Lives Matter.” “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” is the catchphrase Shapiro popularized several years ago at the height of the debate over microaggressions and safe spaces on college campuses, and it’s become a sort of mantra for him.Ī frequent speaker at universities, host of a nationally syndicated podcast with millions of listeners and a regular writer on the website he founded, the Daily Wire, Shapiro sees himself in opposition to the culturally dominant, identity-driven “social justice warrior” left.
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