"Particularly On The Immigration Issue"? Why Is Ben Shapiro Pretending To Be An Immigration Patriot?
And if so, why?
At 1:50: 20 on Meghan Kelly’s show, Ben Shapiro says, “Tucker has been a wonderful advocate in the past, particularly on the immigration issue.”
“Particularly on the immigration issue”?
This is news to me, as Editor of the late lamented immigration patriot site, VDARE.com.
Let me back up. Needless to say, neither Ben Shapiro nor Meghan Kelly (who is playing a discreet but heroic role in the current Zionist-driven Conservatism Inc. Civil War) ever spoke up against VDARE.com’s mugging by New York State’s lawfare-crazed Attorney General Letitia James.
In contrast, let the record show that Tucker Carlson did heroically “platform” Lydia to speak in our defense.
But as late as 2018 i.e. AT (After Trump), Ben Shapiro, on (needless to say), National Review, denounced me as “Peter Brimelow, creator of the white-supremacist site VDare.com.”
In other words, according to Shapiro at that point, criticizing America’s post-1965 immigration disaster was “white-supremacist.”
Remember that being branded a “white supremacist” then meant being utterly excluded from Main Stream Media debate.
And in fact Shapiro’s smear was specifically damaging to VDARE.com. In 2020 the New York Times cited Shapiro as one of the “extremely conservative commentators” who claimed I was “white supremacist” in its defense to our libel claim that it had alleged I was an “Open White Nationalist.”
(Needless to say, this was actually irrelevant to the question of whether I was an “Open White Nationalist.” (I’ve always maintained I‘m a Civil Nationalist).
(But the Court, while admitting our point was “actionable,” absurdly decided that the New York Times’ website stealth-edit had made us whole—contrary to the paper’s stated policy on correcting errors in print).
My conclusion after this ands other litigation experiences: the American judiciary is simply afraid to confront the oligarchs.
And there is no justice for anyone accused of “white nationalism.”
But Ben Shapiro sure didn’t help.
Remember that, according to Ben in 2016, “The Anti-Semites Are Out In Force For Trump.”
Whatever happened to that?
Ben Shapiro has shown that he is capable of catastrophic political misjudgement.
But I don’t think what appears to be his current tack to immigration patriotism is necessarily wrong.
I just think it’s another tactical retreat in the service of some other agenda.
What is it? Where does he want the U.S. to invade next?
The question of wether Shapiro's pivot represents genuine ideological evolution or strategic repositioning cuts to the core of conservative media's credibilty problem. His 2018 characterization using the white supremacist label had real consequences for discourse boundries. When figures who previously weaponized such labels suddenly adopt restrictionist rhetoric, it raises questions about the sustainability of their newfound positions versus the durability of their previous commitments. The fact that he never spoke against lawfare targeting VDARE while now praising Tucker's immigration advocacy suggests brand managment over principle.
Ben Shapiro is Israeli first. He has said he doesn't care about the browning of America. He's a Neocon who wants Americans to die in pointless wars in the Middle East under the belief that this will help Israel.