It's a cavalcade of Democratic social media stars as Barack Obama returns to the White House to take a victory lap.

AOC graces the cover of GQ and Hillary hits the view. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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I've been saying for a very long time that politics should be a serious business.

I mean, sure, it's a comedy because it's a bunch of idiots running around who are telling you what to do and botching it every which way and then blaming you. And if you watch it as a tragedy, it's really sad. But if you watch it as a comedy, it's hilarious. But the truth is, politics overall is a pretty serious business because you're talking about people attempting to solve problems that affect hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people. You're talking about people who wield extraordinary amounts of power over your

everyday life. And that means they should be serious people. They should be people who are

working within our institutions in order to make incremental changes that better your

life over the course of time. That's what politics theoretically should be about.

And the job of a politician is different than, say, the job that I have, right? The job that I have

is to articulate the principles that I believe in and then to hold people accountable when they

don't actually face up to those principles. The job of a politician is to understand

where their principles are, and then to make the necessary adjustments to those principles,

the necessary compromises in order to incrementally move the ball forward along the lines of their

principles. That's what a politician's job is to do. But what our politics has basically become

is a bunch of social media influencers. And I'm talking all the way on up to the presidency.

So yesterday, Barack Obama shows up at the White House.

He's back.

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