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