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Happy New Year, everybody.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is The Ben Spiro Show.

It is indeed, 2023, and we are back with you. I hope you had a wonderful and meaningful Christmas vacation, as well as a wonderful and happy New Year. And we begin the year on a sort of

brief note of overview. So, 2023, I believe, is going to be a time of shifting political winds. I think that the wind is

about to shift pretty dramatically across Western civilization because the weaknesses that have been

brought upon Western civilization by liberalism, by the left, I think that those weaknesses are

going to start to come home to roost. It looks like a moment of strength for the left. It looks

as though the left is on the march. It looks as though President Joe Biden is doing pretty well. He's had a pretty successful run thus far in terms of legislation. He's got the backing of the media. His approval rating seems to be bumped back into the mid-40s. And it seems as though the left is riding high. After all, it looks as though the stock market may make some sort of reappearance this year. It had a really bad year last year. It looks as though Democrats sort of escaped the blade of the guillotine during the last election cycle. And so if you're on the left, you're feeling pretty good about yourself going into 2023. I do not think 2023 is going to be a good year for the left. I think that a lot of the secular trends, I don't mean secular as in godless, I mean sort of the broad societal trends that have been happening across the West are about to reverse themselves

because the concept of... trends. I don't mean secular as in godless. I mean, sort of the broad societal trends that have

been happening across the West are about to reverse themselves because the consequences of those

trends are about to be felt in a pretty dramatic way across the West. The truth is the one we do

politics here on this show. What we're very often doing is we are telescoping big, broad

issues into the news of the day.

Because the news of the day is just representative of events at the top of the iceberg.

What we like to do here on the show is we like to talk about the broad ideologies, the broad historical movements that underpin what's happening on the very tip of the iceberg.

And I think that what we've been doing is essentially rearranging

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