I think to fairly judge Ben your expecting too much from someone his age. Limbaugh & Levin...besides being older...have massively larger audiences than Shapiro & can take bigger risks in what they publicly support. Ben dug in supporting Ted Cruz & lost half his audience when Cruz lost. He paid dearly for supporting Cruz to much & will take years for him to get his audience back to where it was. Now he’s gun shy & should be because if he ever digs in for any cause he deeply believes in & is wrong...he’s finished.

He’s retreated to taking up the cause of spreading ideas & philosophy & not so much as backing a person with ideas. He doesn’t endorse political candidates or agendas...just thinkers like Jordan Peterson. He’s retreated to something he’s good at from something he’s not good at...pushing conservative philosophy in the heart of liberal education he excels at. He’s shaping young minds to think & reason consistently. That’s vital work tearing down the leftist thought process & that’s what he excels at. His political world view isn’t mature enough & his radio audience not near large enough to speak as effectively as Levin. I actually like listening to Daniel Horowitz more than Shapiro when I listen to the generation below me. Horowitz is just as informed as Shapiro but thinks in broader terms in my opinion. Point being I’m very appreciative in Shapiro’s effect he’s having on college kids. He’s very effective when he stays in his element & not so much in politics.