The day has come. We have arrived. The apocalypse is here.

And we will talk about all of it. I left on Friday hating the universe. I come back, hating the universe twice as much.

So there's so much to talk to. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.

So here's the Republican presidential race in a nutshell.

We've got a guy who lies all the time against the guy who is for amnesty, and a Republican

who's the most conservative person in the field who's now despised by the anti-establishment

crowd because for some reason, I don't know.

Also, on the Democratic side, we have a multiple felon against a man who is utterly out of his mind. So, everything's going great. The country's in fantastic hands. And welcome back. It's a Monday. We have a full work week ahead of us. So if that doesn't put you in a good mood, I don't know what we'll. We'll start with, of course, the Iowa caucuses. because we don't know what the, we don't know what the outcome is as we record this.

Obviously, it could go late into the night.

The caucuses start at 7 o'clock Iowa time, which is two hours ahead of time and also in an alternative universe where corn and snow dominate the news.

But apparently, it starts at 7 o'clock. It usually takes them at least a couple of hours to do the whole process, and then you start dominate the news. But apparently it starts at 7 o'clock.

It usually takes them at least a couple of hours to do the whole process, and then you start

getting the vote counts.

It could be late.

It could be late tonight.

It could be 10, 11 o'clock tonight before we begin getting results out of Iowa.

But one thing is certain.

I am already depressed.

And the reason that I am already depressed is because how could my fellow

conservatives do this to me? Not to me, but to conservatism as a general matter. I've been telling

you for a week, a week, months, that Donald Trump is not a conservative. But last week, as you remember,

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