All righty, folks. So every day, I do a bit of mailbag on the show. This is the stuff that usually goes behind the paywall on the Ben Shapiro show. You have to actually be a subscriber over at DailywirePlus.com to get your questions answer. But I want to give you a taste of that. Let's jump into some mailbag. Rick says, Ben, how did you structure a series of laws to prevent wealthy bond villains like George Soros from wielding a disproportionate amount of influence over American politics?

Is there any chance of such laws being effective in practice or ever even getting passed regardless

of who in charge?

Well, here's the problem.

George Soros is an American citizen.

He has the ability to contribute to a wide variety of campaigns.

There is no way of essentially stopping George Soros without also squashing the ability

of conservatives to intervene in elections via funding. The best response to George Soros in these

DA's races is to run somebody who is not a George Soros-backed person and give them the money.

But if you do what the left does and you try to just kind of cut out all funding entirely,

what ends up happening is that the people who are backed by the media have a systemic advantage. Plus, a lot of the in-kind contributions that are given by unions aren't counted as such. It actually creates systemic advantages for Democrats. Don says, hey, Ben, my family was recently invited to go to Disney World, all expenses paid. I'm torn because traveling is sort of out of reach for me. Like you, I enjoy the old classic Disney. I'm disgusted with the new agenda they want to push to my kids.

On one hand, I feel like respectfully declining would rob my kids of an experience that wouldn't normally enjoy. On the other hand, I don't want to give any kind of support to a company who lies about the so-called don't-say-gay-bill promotes racism in the proud family and so on. What are your thoughts on this type of situation. So listen, it is painful for me not to be able to take my kids to Disney World. One of the great things about moving to Florida from California is that in California, we were 45 minutes from Disneyland, we were annual past members. We used to take our kids I would say at least once a month. We were intending on doing the same thing here in Florida. I have not been able to take my kids to Disney World for a couple of years. I'm just not interested in spending my money there. And, again, that's a hard one. Depriving yourself of those experiences is tough. What I would suggest is maybe there's another theme park that you can take your kids to. There are a bunch of them in Orlando. Take your kids to SeaWorld. Take your kids to Universal. There are plenty of other places to take your kids. That might be better. But yeah, no, I'm very hesitant to get my business to Disney at this point. David says, hey, man, long-time listener, first-time writer. My question is, why does the Republican Party let Democrats seemingly run the narrative in every situation? It seems to me they do a weak job of combating all the fake news and misleading information pumped out by Democrats. And when misinformation comes out, the Republican leadership doesn't say anything. The only one that does is DeSantis. It's almost to the point where the GOP leadership should take out ads on CNN refuting their false claims. It's very frustrating that Democrats and the left-leaning media are able to run circles around Republicans and right-leading media. I think there's a crucial aspect Democrats are missing, essentially bad messaging, thank you, and keep up the great job. Well, one of the big mistakes a lot of Republicans make, and DeSantis doesn't, is that DeSantis doesn't feel the need to go on CNN to explain himself. He doesn't feel the need to go on NBC News. He doesn't feel the necessity to respond to left-wing media outlets, and so he'll just ignore them. And that means that he gets to drive a narrative on his own, and he makes the media respond to him. Sometimes scarcity in the media is a good thing. Most Republicans, they're looking for ubiquity, and there's a real collective action problem among Republicans. The way that you get famous, the way you get donations, is by being attacked by the media, which means you have to appear in the media. But that also means you let the media decide the agenda. What DeSantis is doing

because he's a governor and because he can actually drive a policy agenda is inherently different

from many of the legislators who are maybe in a position of no power and who are desperate to see

the little red light that gives them attention. Until the party leadership is able to actually

exercise some power over its membership and say, listen, we are going to be extremely disciplined in how we approach the media. You need to run through some sort of centralized clearinghouse, and we are going to be all on message. Many of us are not going to respond to the media at all. That's going to be a very difficult thing to pull off. So there's a real misalignment of incentives. Nate says, hey, Ben, love the daily wire in your show. Something has been nagging at me. I'd love your thoughts. I frequently hear you say that the far left ideas on DEI, LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, Tilda, writes, transgendering the children, et cetera, are not what we want or are not the popular opinion in America. If that's true, why does it not only seem entirely embraced by much of America, but encouraged and celebrated? It's truly unpopular, why would so much of the mainstream media advocate for it and push it ad nauseum? To me, it's akin to a vendor continuing to stock and sell a product.

Nobody wants to. embraced by much of America, but encouraged and celebrated. It's truly unpopular, why I would so much in the mainstream media advocate for it and push it ad nauseum. To me, it's akin to a vendor

continuing to stock and sell a product nobody wants. That vendor would go out of business. Is it possible more of America actually agrees with these far left liberals than we'd like? Well, I mean, certainly more of America agrees with them than I would like. But no. I mean, And the answer is that, let's say that you're a company and you have two choices.

One is to market for Pride Month and the other is to not market for Pride Month. The core assumption of a lot of these companies is that if market for Pride Month, everybody who's very into Pride Month is going to buy a lot of products and everyone else is so shy of being attacked for not being on board that they're just going to go and buy a product like normal. In other words, there is no cost and there is great benefit to going woke. Because the non-wokes are so scared of speaking out because they're the quote-unquote silent majority that they're never going to actually fight back. This is what a lot of these companies have been relying on for quite a while is the intimidation and the silence and the media tsunami to quash opposition.

So you get the upside of the people who are very militantly on the left, and you get no downside.

And this, by the way, is true.

I mean, there's a Harvard Business School study fairly recently, and what it showed is that if there is a corporation, just plain corporation, no political aspect to the corporation,

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