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Ben Shapiro

American conservative commentator

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Co-founded The Daily Wire and hosts a daily show that defends free markets, traditional values and a strong US alliance with Israel.

Ben Shapiro sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly traditional on culture, strongly free market on economy and strongly strength-first on war and peace.

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Where Ben Shapiro sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Ben Shapiro

William F. Buckley Jr. American author and commentator, 1925 to 200899%Ted Cruz US Senator from Texas, 2013 to present99%John Howard Prime Minister of Australia, 1996 to 200799%Álvaro Uribe President of Colombia, 2002 to 201099%George W. Bush US President, 2001 to 200998%Mike Pence US Vice President, 2017 to 202198%Douglas Murray British author and commentator98%Scott Morrison Prime Minister of Australia, 2018 to 202298%

People furthest from Ben Shapiro

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19401%John Lennon British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 19801%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 20061%Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 19922%

Political views closest to Ben Shapiro

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.98%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…97%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…96%Religious rightSeeks to shape law and politics by religious, often Christian, values.93%

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