In the span of a decade, Ben Shapiro built The Daily Wire into a conservative media empire.
He produced hit podcasts that bit at liberal excesses,
and documentaries and lectures about the founders, the genders, the gospels.
He peddled polos, hats, candles, provided a home for deplatformed conservative stars like Matt Walsh,
and minted stars like Candace Owens.
Let's put a pin in that.
The Daily Wire even has kids programming: a judgmental puppet named Zoodles who shares Shapiro's load-bearing eyebrows.
Though the empire showed signs of collapse, The Daily Wire's YouTube videos are down from millions
of views to the lo-fi figures, web traffic is plummeting, and recently Shapiro laid off 13 of his employees.
Asked by The Washington Post what had happened, Shapiro accused other conservatives of click-whoring by embracing
radical Islam, theorizing about the evils of Winston Churchill, and mocking the widow of Charlie Kirk.
"The kids still got it." On "Today, Explained": The Fall of Ben Shapiro.
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