Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives

Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives
“I think it would be really hard to find a young conservative who doesn’t know who Ben Shapiro is.”
Mr. Shapiro is trying to define conservatism at a time when its meaning is up for grabs
and the Republican Party, and traditional conservative media outlets like Fox, are built for older audiences.
“So often I’ve felt turning on Fox, it makes you dumber,
but you listen to Ben Shapiro and you are likely to be both entertained and enlightened,” said Charlie Sykes, a conservative pundit and Trump critic.
“He was slapping people on the left and people on the right went, ‘Yeah, those people need to be slapped!’”
But Mr. Shapiro does it too.
“He’ll never concede anything to the left,” said William Nardi, a college student in Boston, who used to look up to Mr. Shapiro.
Mr. Shapiro looked at her, his face impassive: “You’re right,” he said.
Mr. Shapiro, conservative thinker, entertainer, trash talker
and destroyer of weak arguments, has been called the voice of the conservative millennial movement.