More gay than the Pope's pajama bottoms, December 29, 2025.

Introduction.

If you don't zoom out too far, Ben Shapiro had some really good things to say at the Heritage Foundation recently.

Here you go. Check it out at this link. Huh. I link to it in my tweet

thread, but I'm now told it is not available anymore, but you can't deny that I tried.

At any rate, Shapiro said that lack of definition regarding the conservative movement was a disastrous

open borders approach. And just as a nation cannot be a nation without control of its borders,

so also a movement that lacks ideological nation cannot be a nation without control of its borders, so also a movement

that lacks ideological definition cannot be a movement. All that was true and good. As he was doing

this, Shapiro appealed to the founding principles of the Heritage Foundation, which were free enterprise,

limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Now, I happen to be in favor of all five of those, and nothing written here should be taken as

casting shade on any of them. Yay for all five. Two yays. But there's still a problem with Shapiro's

application, and it is a big one, aimed at Tucker. The point he was making was aimed at Tucker.

He considers

Tucker an opponent and not as a fellow conservative who's made some errors here or there.

The criticism would be that Tucker is no longer a real advocate of limited government or free

enterprise, praising feudalism, for example, or that he undermined national security by giving

Putin that softball interview, or because he underestimates

the threat that radical Islam presents to America, or is too critical of our relationship with

Israel? Things like that. And truth be told, there is some truth and all of that. A lot of people

who still like Tucker do agree that he's got a case of the wobbles in some areas. Fair point. But if you're

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