Crossfire

Being a right winger and conservative can sometimes get you into trouble. They tend to always be disgruntled but there are factions which don't like each other. 

Ben Shapiro is in that situation where he is Jewish and much of his audience are antisemitic Trumpers. This is the problem with more traditional fiscal conservatives who love open markets but also lean into cultural outrage. You are going to get into trouble when the dregs of the Trumpist base listen in. 

As conservatism in the US became increasingly about attacking DEI, immigrants and LGBTQ people it started these little internal wars. For example when the shrill and arrogant Candace Owens left the Daily Wire she could now lean into more anti-Israel and pro-Palestine content she had been chided for by Shapiro who wasn't having it. She had the same views as Shapiro on transgender people but not on that one. The people who feed on hyperbolic outrage sometimes end up feeding on each other.

I have to conclude that if you sat these people down and examined their childhoods you would find some unfulfilled dreams which then set them on a path for criticizing and belittling others. It is what happened to JK Rowling who conflated her being sexually assaulted with transgender people needing a bit of dignity. To her they were predators inviting themselves into women only spaces. 

The right wing always needs targets and as they are firing they sometimes turn on each other much to the delight of those who don't share their zeal.

For Shapiro who is bright but wrong on so many things, Trump became a useful idiot because he promotes many of this ideas. However tariffs are not one of them and in criticizing the administration over them he invites the more deplorable of the Kool-aid drinkers to attack him.

Turns out being hateful is like walking a very thin tightrope.