In the span of a decade, Ben Shapiro built the Daily Wire into a conservative media empire. He produced hit podcasts that bit at liberal excesses and documentaries and lectures about the founders, the genders, the gospels. He peddled polos, hats, candles, provided a home for deep platformed conservative stars like Matt Walsh and minted stars like Candice Owens.

Let's put a pin in that.

The Daily Wire even has kids programming, a judgmental puppet named Zoodles.

Zoodles!

Who shares Shapiro's load-bearing eyebrows.

This year, though, the Empire showed signs of collapse.

The Daily Wire's YouTube videos are down from millions of views to the low five figures.

Web traffic is plummeting. And recently, Shapiro laid off 13% of his employees. Asked by the

Washington Post, what had happened? Shapiro accused other conservatives of click whoring by embracing

radical Islam, theorizing about the evils of Winston Churchill and mocking the widow of Charlie Kirk.

The kids still got it.

On today, explained, the fall of Ben Shapiro.

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