I posted these 13 questions to @Schwarzenegger recently but I'll repeating here for you:
1) Which party has trampled more on freedom of speech over the past 10 years?
2) Which party has been more lax in terms of the open borders?
3) Which party promotes collectivism (as per diversity, inclusion, and equity) over individual dignity and meritocracy?
4) Which party is more likely to state that the science is settled, when to do so is the most anti-scientific position that one can take?
5) Which party tramples on the rights of biological females when it comes to allowing biological males into their athletic competitions, their dressing rooms, their prisons?
6) Which party is more likely to adopt economic policies that are in line with socialism much more so than capitalism?
7) Which party is more lax on criminals?
8) Which party is a greater supporter of the Second Amendment?
9) Professors who belong to which party are most likely to be the originators of all of the parasitic ideas that are destroying the West?
10) You were in a film where you had gotten pregnant. Which party is more likely to espouse the position that men too can get pregnant and have menstrual cycles? 11) Which party is more likely to grant massive amounts of taxpayer money to illegal immigrants over American vets?
12) Which party is more in line with the "I have a dream" message from Martin Luther King Jr.?
13) Which party is more desirous of setting up a misinformation and disinformation board, an idea that is antithetical to the most basic tenet of the First Amendment?
I could go on but let's start with the latter 13 questions.
[I also posted this on his thread.]
I generally avoid intra-Right conflict, but the ongoing Daily Wire-Candace Owens dispute is an important moment for the Right, which, I believe, merits comment.
First, it's not a violation of "free speech" to let a multimillion-dollar contract expire, which is reportedly what happened. The Daily Wire is not obligated to subsidize Candace Owens's speech, especially if she is deviating from the publication's editorial standard or causing problems for the business. DW is not an open platform such as YouTube, Facebook, X, etc., and the owners of a publication are under no obligation to subsidize someone whose trust and friendship they no longer enjoy. Owens spent months taking public shots at @benshapiro and @JeremyDBoreing, which is a tacit request to get canned and then play the martyr.
Owens is a gifted speaker, who has been able to turn controversy into attention—a valuable capability—but she does not advance a serious politics. She is clearly traveling down an ugly, but, unfortunately, well-trodden path. She has rationalized Kanye West's antisemitic rants, speculated about Jewish gangs murdering people in Hollywood, accused @BariWeiss of being a CIA asset, and claimed that Emmanuel Macron's wife is a man. There is an audience for this kind of material—Inforwars does a robust business in vitamins and emergency prep kits—but it's a political dead end.
Why does this matter? Because the Right faces an inflection point. There are serious people who are trying to advance a serious political movement with a vision for governing—I consider the Daily Wire to be among them. And there are unserious people who are willing to sell kayfabe and conspiracy, leading us nowhere. I care about politics because I believe we have substantive work to do for the country. This requires putting together a coalition that is capable of taking responsibility. The choice is ours.
An important lesson about the Left that also cuts to the abusive Cringe Right, as they've demonstrated clearly for a while now, especially the last week.