If you would like to read a thread that is almost impossibly pretentious, a thread that pushes the boundaries of what you thought unearned self-importance could look like, Eric Weinstein has you covered. https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1305282458674368512

"At least give us this one teeny tiny little thing. We were right about it all. We were right about everything."

lmao

The absolute nerve to be Eric Weinstein and demand that people concede this. https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1305282458674368512

Just imagine offering Ben Shapiro as a tonic for culture war excess. Mate, he's its apogee.

Just imagine suggesting Tulsi Gabbard and Dan Crenshaw as examples of politicians who exist outside the reality of partisanship.

I really need to expound on this because it's about as surreal as it gets.

Eric Weinstein advises us to "draft" those who "stood outside THE DUOPOLY." Cool, cool. Let's do it.

Okay, nice, he's given us a list. Who is on it?

Why, it's Ben Shapiro.

Ben Shapiro is on the list.

Ben Shapiro is on the list of people who have exempted themselves from the left/right binary.

This, my friends, is galaxy.

I'm not trying to be mean-spirited here. But, speaking as the pluralist/centrist/moderate that Eric relentlessly projects himself to be, Eric's shtick is deeply offensive to me.

Eric styles himself as someone who stands outside THE SYSTEM, observing its decay as a concerned, reasonable onlooker. But to follow him is to find yourself knee-deep in culture war ephemera. In one-sided analysis. In reactionary politics masquerading as above-it-all centrism.