{"id":24377,"date":"2026-05-16T03:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-daily-wire-responds-to-the-haters-rooting-for-its-death\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:56:44","slug":"the-daily-wire-responds-to-the-haters-rooting-for-its-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-daily-wire-responds-to-the-haters-rooting-for-its-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Wire Responds To The Haters Rooting For Its Death"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sometimes we are the news here at the Daily Wire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, the Daily Wire has been the subject of a veritable cornucopia of hit pieces. There was one from the Washington Post, one from Puck, and finally an especially ridiculous one from the stellar journalists at New York Magazine, who plagiarized their hit piece from the Washington Post.<\/span><\/p>\n

So much high-level journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York Magazine claims \u201cthere was a time when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember that time, but it sounds cool.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s all over now. The Daily Wire is instituting significant layoffs,\u201d they continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to New York Magazine, the future of conservatism isn\u2019t traditional conservatism; free markets, equal rights before the law, checks and balances, and traditional virtue. That\u2019s done.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The future, according to New York Magazine, is Nick Fuentes, confirmed Nazistan and woman-hater, and a man who will never be able to get a human woman pregnant through natural means.<\/p>\n

Or Tucker Carlson, confirmed anti-capitalist and Muslim apologist and victim of demon-scratching. Or maybe Candace Owens, the confirmed slanderer of widows and connoisseur of French testicles. Or maybe Megyn Kelly, clickwhore and Grandma Groyper.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York Magazine writes, \u201cThe collapse of the Daily Wire can be seen as a dire warning for traditional Republicans. \u2026 There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The polling data shows that is wrong. The positions we take here on the show reflect the broad majority of Republicans. That\u2019s just the reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I figured that we should address all of this head-on. It\u2019s true; the Daily Wire has laid off roughly 13% of our workforce since the beginning of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

It really sucked. It was truly sad because all those people are great, and any time you lay people off, it really sucks. It\u2019s tough. It\u2019s bad for them; it\u2019s bad for us. And I\u2019m personally working to find other places of employment for as many of these people as I possibly can, because everybody we let go deserves a job somewhere else; they\u2019re great folks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for our critics, this was all cause for massive celebration, the joyful popping of the corks. (Or maybe, in the case of Nick Fuentes, a victory celebration with catboys and lubricant.)<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re honored by the attention. Here\u2019s the thing: People only tend to write stories like this about major American institutions, such as \u201cAmazon dumps people\u201d or \u201cThe Washington Post dumps people.\u201d That\u2019s a big story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank God we are a major American institution. According to Podtrac, our podcast reaches 41 million people per month. We\u2019re ranked sixth globally. We have a total of 11 shows. Paramount, for example, is ranked fourth globally, according to that same chart. They have 145 shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

So on a per-capita basis, we\u2019re killing it. We are responsible for the two most successful conservative documentaries in history, \u201cAm I Racist?\u201d and \u201cWhat Is a Woman?\u201d Just this week, Vice President JD Vance was quoting our reporting in his fraud investigations, and our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olohan, was in the press room asking questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no national media coverage if a Candace Owens producer and her manager quit, or if Megyn Kelly\u2019s YouTube account starts shedding tens of thousands of subscribers a month, or if Tucker Carlson\u2019s traffic is disproportionately drawn from Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those are all things that have actually happened, but nobody really cared very much because while those people have significant audience numbers, they don\u2019t have any real institutional influence. They are not institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not true of the Daily Wire. We\u2019re big enough that people care when we trip up. And of course, like any business, we have our ups and we have our downs.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Mark Twain put it, the reports of our death are greatly exaggerated.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s something else going on here. Something <\/span>very clear<\/span><\/i> is going on here.<\/span><\/p>\n

The media Left, and the Woke Right \u2014 Candace and Fuentes and Tucker and Megyn \u2014 all of them together form the New Left. They are attempting to destroy traditional conservatism.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the reason for these attacks. The Daily Wire is the largest traditional conservative media company in the digital space by leaps and bounds. We are multiple times the size of any of these others.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have many conversations on our platform among our hosts about topics ranging from AI to the Middle East to Catholicism and Judaism. There\u2019s a lot of rich disagreement here at the Daily Wire, but in the end, what we stand for is pretty simple: truth, virtue, and freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that is what the New Left would love to destroy. It\u2019s why the attacks have been coming fast and furious for weeks now. <\/span>They want to destroy traditional conservatism<\/span><\/i>. It is their goal in life.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a couple of different reasons they do this.<\/span><\/p>\n

The media Left is always happy to run this grift because they love a Right that is crazy. They don\u2019t want a political Right characterized by normie beliefs. They want a Right that\u2019s nuts, because the easiest way to make AOC president in the 2028 election is to have that nutty lady run against a conservative movement that is focused on Brigitte Macron\u2019s testicles, or demon attacks in the wilds of Maine, or why the Jews are responsible for your incurable gingivitis and horrific body odor and inability to get a date.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the Woke Right, Fuentes and Tucker and Candace and Kelly, they\u2019re ecstatic about all of this for both business and political reasons. First, they compete with us, and second, they <\/span>want <\/span><\/i>to tear down traditional conservatism. Their whole goal is to cannibalize the traditional conservative audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are, by all available metrics, a hell of a lot more traditional conservatives and rational people in this country than people who are nuts. But the goal of the New Left is to gut the conservative movement and then turn it into a skin-suit for their own perverse politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why many of them are now coming out as Democrats. That\u2019s why Russia Today, the official outlet for the Kremlin, is retweeting Nick Fuentes acting triumphant.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know; if living in your basement and streaming for eight hours a day while jacking off to catboys is a form of winning, then whatever floats your boat.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also why the Washington Post is happy to quote Candace Owens, the ranting bag lady of the internet, to explain that The Daily Wire\u2019s numbers are down.<\/span><\/p>\n

The alliance between the Left and the Woke Right is genuine, and it\u2019s active.<\/span><\/p>\n

Candace says that the Daily Wire\u2019s numbers are down because people don\u2019t want to be lectured. This is the teenage point of view from Candace and Megyn and Tucker. They\u2019re all saying the same thing. They don\u2019t want to be lectured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Megyn tweeted in March 2026, \u201cYou are the coward, Ben. And your moral preening, priggish lectures and holier-than-thou judgments are the reason you are losing fans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these people are on the same script. And because they are people who traffic in crap for sweet, sweet lucre, they would love to be spared the lecture. They don\u2019t want to be lectured as they grift.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, they\u2019re going to do the same thing that a 13-year-old boy would do if caught doing naughty things on his iPad: \u201cDon\u2019t you lecture me!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It turns out sometimes in life, people need lectures in decency and reason and in truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

You know, like people who smear the wives of murdered men or cover for people who smear the wives of murdered men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the people who revive Nazi propaganda, the people who have a weird interest in the non-existent testicles of the spouses of French politicians, or the people who make cause with actual Nazistan <\/span>deserve l<\/span><\/i>ectures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the people who are repeating talking points from Hasan Piker and mimicking the propaganda of Vladimir Putin, or people who just randomly start cursing a ton and are hanging out with groyper-adjacent people and embracing Islam, <\/span>deserve<\/span><\/i> lectures.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always a big YouTube audience for their crap. But let\u2019s be real: There\u2019s a massive online audience for pornography as well. People addicted to either deserve a bit of a lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n

But getting back to the central issue: The point of the attacks on the Daily Wire is not just to attack the Daily Wire. It\u2019s to destroy traditional conservatism.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the whole thing. The entire thing. All of it. Every bit of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason they\u2019re coming after the Daily Wire is that they want to come after <\/span>you. <\/span><\/i>They want to come after traditional conservatives who believe traditional conservative things.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is no coincidence that at the same time the Washington Post and New York Magazine and all the rest of these legacy Left publications are attacking the Daily Wire, they\u2019re also writing Strange New Respect features on Nick Fuentes and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Left wants those people to win \u2014 and they\u2019re not hiding it very well. New York Magazine\u2019s piece says,\u201dLike the Rockefeller Republican of yore, the Shapiro Republican could go extinct entirely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s<\/span><\/i> what they want. They want traditional normie Republicans to go away. It\u2019s what they want, and it\u2019s what they hope for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps it will turn out that all these people who hate conservatism and what I consider to be traditional American principles are correct; maybe it\u2019ll turn out that the future of the Right \u2014 perverted by the algorithmic insanity of the internet \u2014 is slopulism, the Tucker-style grievance conspiracism, complete with the night-scratching demons, or Candace Owens\u2019s usual brand of kookery, or Nick Fuentes\u2019 transgressive Nazi cosplay or Theo Von\u2019s man-child podcast illiteracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s where the Right goes. Maybe that\u2019s what comes next. Maybe that\u2019s all facilitated by the click-whoring of the Megyn Kellys of the world and justified by an appeal to audience numbers, because none of these people ever appeal to morality; they just point to their clicks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe \u201cIdiocracy\u201d wasn\u2019t a satire. Maybe it was a prophetic documentary.<\/span><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing: From where I sit, that does not change one single thing for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not a single thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been doing this since I was 17. I started writing a syndicated political column when I was 17. I didn\u2019t do that because I wanted to get rich that way; that\u2019s not how you get rich.<\/span><\/p>\n

I got into politics because I cared about the truth, about saying things that I believed to be eternal and true, because I care about the ideas of conservatism.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s why I\u2019ve done that for all these years.<\/span><\/p>\n

I care about free markets, and I care about private property, and I care about equal rights before the law and checks and balances and the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

I care about all of those things.<\/span><\/p>\n

I care about the America the Founders promised us, and the America our parents and grandparents fought for, worked for, and died for.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not going to lie for cash. I\u2019m not going to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to tell you about the wonders of Moscow supermarkets or the glories of Sharia Law in Qatar. I\u2019m not going to pander for clicks by pretending that Erika Kirk might have been complicit in Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder, or that perverse and malicious questions about TPUSA\u2019s \u201ccover-up\u201d are somehow a bizarre form of investigative journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to wink and nod at the transgressiveness of the Nazi incels, or chuckle along with people who pretend that \u201ca conspiratorial elite\u201d is the reason your life isn\u2019t everything that you want it to be i<\/span>n the freest and most prosperous country in world history. I\u2019m going to be grateful for America. I\u2019m going to point out what\u2019s great about America and what our principles are.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to do any of that other stuff because I got into this business to do <\/span>precisely the opposite<\/span><\/i>. I haven\u2019t changed my principles. I\u2019ve been doing this for 25 years. I have not changed my principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a question I get a lot these days from friends and family. People will come up and say, \u201cWhat happened to all these people?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They understand New York Magazine and Washington Post and what they are. But what happened to Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly, and all the rest?<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know the answer because I\u2019m not a psychiatrist.<\/span><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s what I do know. Nobody has ever asked that question about me. <\/span>No one<\/span><\/i>. Because my worldview has not changed, it has not changed<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My principles haven\u2019t changed because I think they\u2019re true and good, and they won\u2019t change.<\/span><\/p>\n

So in the end, take it or leave it. If people decide they don\u2019t want to hear it, it\u2019s a free country; that\u2019s their choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I am willing to bet my future and the future of America that more Americans agree with me than agree with the people who want to destroy the Daily Wire. I\u2019m betting there are far more rational people in this country than conspiracy-mongering nutjobs. I\u2019m betting that there are far more people in America who believe in truth and virtue and freedom than people who revel in grievance and demoralization and stupidity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I\u2019m wrong. Maybe we lose.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t change a thing. It doesn\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the only thing that matters is the only thing that has ever mattered to me: speaking the truth, whether people like it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s because facts still don\u2019t care about your feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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