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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ben Shapiro Explains The Political Matrix

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4 β€’ 152.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0

All righty, so you've heard a thousand times from all your left-wing friends

0:25.6

that the fascists are right-wing. The fascists are conservative. Donald Trump is Hitler.

0:31.4

The Republicans are Nazis. Hell, Mitt Romney was a Nazi, according to these people. And that's

0:35.7

not true. Fascism has a specific definition.

0:38.2

Now, I call a lot of things Marxist, but that's because the things I call Marxist are, in fact,

0:43.3

Marxist. I mean, Zarin Mamdani talking about the power of government centralization in order to

0:48.7

achieve a form of higher justice. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

0:56.5

We are going to use the power of government to lower prices and make it easier for New Yorkers

1:02.1

to put food on the table.

1:04.0

That is Marxism.

1:05.0

There's a reason he's a member of Democratic Socialists of America.

1:07.0

When I say that AOC is a Marxist, it is because she speaks the language of Marxism.

1:11.6

We were tired of a cynical politics that seemed blind to the realities of working people.

1:18.6

This nation will not go back. We choose a new path and open the door to a new day.

1:24.6

When people say fascism, they usually just mean things they don't like, and then they call it fascist, because of course, fascism has a long and terrible history.

1:31.4

There are a lot of people out there who have been following me for a while, and I've talked about the new left or the woke right or the horseshoe right.

1:49.3

And they've been wondering what I'm talking about.

1:51.0

What I'm talking about is the place where the fascist right meets the Marxist left.

1:55.6

So the reality is that Marxism and fascism have a lot in common.

1:59.4

Fascism was originally designed by people who were

2:01.5

very warm toward Marxism. Mussolini, Hitler. These are people who had significant belief systems

2:06.0

aligned with Marxism, meaning they wanted centralized government control or even nationalization

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