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Ben Shapiro Cannot Defeat The New Right

Making enemies you can’t defeat

It’s not exactly a secret that there has been a bit of a rift emerging on the American right. People are starting to rally behind different camps more and more with the likes of Ben Shapiro on what we may call the orthodox or traditional right, and Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens on the so-called new right. Both of these camps have wildly different views on a number of matters, most notably conspiracy theories and Israel. And, these are the issues which seem to be causing a lot of infighting.

Ben Shapiro speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Image Source: Gage Skidmore Image License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

Ben has been calling out this emergent new right faction for some time now. He even devoted an entire 45-minute video on his YouTube channel to attacking Fuentes for being openly bigoted and toxic for the conservative movement. What’s more, this isn’t the only time Ben has taken the fight to Fuentes and the new right. Shapiro also made an effort to call them out at the recent Turning Point USA AmericaFest conference.

Shapiro denounced Fuentes and his ilk as openly bigoted once more and also went on to explain how the likes of Candace Owens and her various conspiracy theories are ultimately damaging for the conservative movement. Candace, for the unaware, has been propagating some, I’ll be kind and say “colorful” conspiracy theories…