Ben Shapiro is MAGA’s Annoying Little ‘Hall Monitor’
It’s official. Ben Shapiro has crowned himself MAGA’s little hall monitor. The guy who used to argue for “free speech” now spends his days handing out detention slips to anyone who dares to color outside the establishment lines.
After years of supposedly railing against cancel culture and whining that his site, Daily Wire, was harpooned by the left-wing censorship machine, Shapiro and his clique of Israel First activists have apparently decided that censorship is fine, as long as they’re the ones doing it. The self-proclaimed champions of open debate are now furious that Tucker Carlson interviewed controversial figure Nick Fuentes.
But don’t be fooled. Their outrage isn’t about ideas they don’t like. It’s all about control and who will be driving this political machine after Trump walks off into the sunset.
Shapiro and Levin have no intention of handing the reins to anti-war populists like Tucker Carlson, especially those who question Israel’s government, the money we send them, or the wars fought on their behalf.
Ben Shapiro:
– Promoted mandatory Covid vaccines
– Attacked Covington kids
– Called Trump racist in 2016
– Promotes war with Iran
– Promoted Palantir
– Said he “didn’t care” about white replacementTucker Carlson:
– Did the opposite of all of this but criticized Israel
Levin and Shapiro are staunch former #NeverTrumpers. And looking down the road to 2028, they seem to want a Republican Party that looks a lot more like a DeSantis–Cruz-type operation. A party where Israel’s priorities come first, the tweets are tamer, and everyone plays “civilized” while nothing really changes. In other words: back to the way it was before Trump came down the escalator.
So it’s no surprise that Shapiro, Levin, and their Israel First buddies are targeting Tucker and anyone else who dares to question Israel’s government by smearing them as anti-Semitic or the “second coming of Hitler.” It’s a calculated move to divide MAGA and pull people away from the populist movement.
Ben is now trying to speak for MAGA, as if this has been his movement all along. It hasn’t, not even close. He’s never been America First, not once. In fact, Ben has been on the wrong side of every major issue, including the COVID vaccine, which he didn’t just push endlessly… he wanted it mandated.
He also called January 6th the worst thing to happen since 9/11.
For Ben and his fellow hall monitors, this is a divide and conquer mission. Their strategy is simple: label the truth-tellers as “Nazis” and hope fear and outrage do the rest of the work. It’s the oldest, dirtiest trick in the left’s playbook, and they’ve stolen it word for word.
This week, after years of railing against “cancel culture,” conservatives began confronting the limits of their own “free speech” absolutism.
Led by Ben Shapiro, top conservative figures have denounced Tucker Carlson for interviewing Nick Fuentes. Shapiro was particularly searing in his criticism, calling the former Fox News host “an intellectual coward, a dishonest interlocutor,” and blaming him for Nazism “being normalized within the mainstream Republican party.” He devoted an entire 40-minute episode of his show to counter what he called Carlson’s “normalizing Nazism,” adding: “It is not cancellation to draw moral lines between viewpoints. In fact, we used to call that one of the key aspects of conservatism.”
At the Heritage Foundation, support for Carlson’s decision to platform Fuentes from its president Kevin Roberts led to fury and resignations among the prominent conservative think tank’s ranks, prompting an extraordinary apology from Roberts and an offer to resign. “You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone,” Roberts told Heritage staffers in a leaked video, “while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear.”
For years, figures like Shapiro, Kelly, Fox News hosts and countless other MAGA Media figures have mocked the idea that dangerous voices should be denied a platform. They called such arguments censorship and attacked it as denying “free speech.” They labeled critics “hall monitors” and accused journalists and tech companies of suppressing speech in the name of political correctness.
There’s more to this story, and we covered it recently. According to Tucker, after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he reached out to Ben and Mark hoping to bury the feud, but instead, he was met with even more hostility.
Back when the left couldn’t handle dissent, they called everyone who supported Trump a “Nazi.” Now the so-called “Israel First” faction on the Right is doing the exact same thing. If you dare to question the Israeli government, you’re suddenly labeled an “anti-Semitic.” If you criticize Netanyahu or foreign aid? Congratulations, you’re “Hitler Jr.”
It’s a tactic straight out of the Marxist-left handbook: smear, isolate, destroy. And now people like Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro, two grown men who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to even back Trump, are turning those same smears on their own side, claiming they speak for all of MAGA.
All because voices like Tucker Carlson are daring to question where America’s loyalties should actually lie and how much money we should send, and how many endless wars we should participate in.
The truth is, there’s never been any love lost between Tucker and the neocons. They’ve always lived on opposite ends of the movement. Tucker is a tried and true populist and is focused on America First. Levin and Shapiro are very much establishment types who barely tolerate President Trump. They defend the old Bush-era foreign policy machine.
But it’s what happened after the assassination of Charlie Kirk that really shows just how deep the divide on the right has become.
When Tucker sat down with Megyn Kelly, he revealed that right after Charlie’s death, he reached out to both Ben and Mark to try and make peace, only to have the door slammed in his face over his criticism of Israel’s government.
Instead of uniting after Charlie’s assassination, a man the left branded a “Nazi” before he was murdered, Levin and Shapiro couldn’t get past Tucker’s criticism of Israel’s government, so they kept the rivalry alive. The same men who once blasted the Left for silencing voices have now become what they claimed to despise. But what makes all of this even worse is how their attacks on Tucker and others have handed the left a moral victory… validating its original censorship of the right. You can see it play out clearly in the gloating coverage from the usual left-wing outlets like Status:
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Now those same figures are drawing their own lines and acknowledging what they once mocked: that not everyone deserves a microphone and mainstream platform to pervert the public’s thinking. They are suddenly behaving like the “hall monitors” they used to deride. Their argument that all voices deserve a platform, and the public should be free to make up its own mind, has finally been confronted with the reality of what it truly enables.
And the questions they’re now asking are the same ones journalists, authorities, and public health officials have grappled with for years. Should YouTube recommend radicalizing videos through its algorithm? Should Rumble and X stop boosting Fuentes’ hateful content? Is it really “censorship” to decide that not every voice deserves a massive platform?
It’s taken this long and something as grotesque as Carlson normalizing a Nazi sympathizer for the right to realize what many have been saying all along: that elevating dangerous hatred and lies comes with real consequences. In Shapiro’s own words, it isn’t “cancellation” to draw moral lines between viewpoints.
For perhaps the first time, right-wing media figures are acknowledging that there is a line. It just took them a white supremacist interview to find it. And after years of deriding the “hall monitors,” they’re now trying on the uniform themselves.
If nothing else, this victory lap that Shapiro and Levin handed the left should infuriate everyone on the right.
The feud between Tucker, Shapiro, and Levin started long before Tucker, a journalist known for interviewing controversial figures, ever sat down with Nick Fuentes. Shapiro and Levin were already playing MAGA hall monitors, attacking Tucker for criticizing Israel’s government. That’s when the “anti-Semitic” label was slapped on him, and the Fuentes interview simply poured gasoline on the fire. It was Tucker’s J6 moment; the instant the Israel First crowd saw an opening to take him down, they jumped on it.
What’s happening here isn’t about protecting conservatism — it’s about gatekeeping it. Shapiro and his neocon buddies don’t want a movement that’s bold, messy, and unpredictable. They want one they can manage. So now, every time someone challenges the official narrative, out comes the “Nazi” label and the moral panic.
Free speech doesn’t come with a permission slip. You don’t have to like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, or anyone else in that orbit to understand the bigger principle at stake. You either believe in open debate, or you don’t. You can’t champion free speech while running around the playground blowing a whistle every time someone says something uncomfortable.
Shapiro can keep playing hall monitor if he wants. But the rest of America is done asking for passes to speak freely.
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