Episode 301: Ben Shapiro on The Authoritarian Moment
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We have entered a new period in America where the intolerance and rigidity of the left have crept into American ideology and invaded our institutions. Newt’s guest is Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, and author of The New York Times best-seller, The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent.
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| 1:06.0 | On this episode of Newt's World in his new book, The Authoritarian Moment, Ben Shapiro examines the real authoritarian threat to America. |
| 1:16.0 | The supposedly anti-fascist left. |
| 1:20.0 | The authoritarian left is aggressively insistent that everyone must bend to its values, demanding submission and conformity. |
| 1:29.0 | The left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. |
| 1:34.0 | Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed. |
| 1:38.0 | Mr. Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt School, social media to the founding fathers to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny and why so many seem blind to it. |
| 1:51.0 | The authoritarian moment lays bear the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future. |
| 2:04.0 | Here to talk more about the themes in his book, I am really pleased to welcome my guest, Ben Shapiro. |
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