Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro succeed in campus debates because left-leaning students rarely hear confident conservatives. Progressives stay in their bubble, making them out of touch on key issues, which hurts their chances with the wider public. The bubble helps create activists but not many wins outside it.
Charlie Kirk’s effectiveness in debates n campus, like Ben Shapiro’s before him, was in large part due to the fact that the campus left is in such an ideological bubble that many students have literally never heard a sharp-witted conservative provide confident and coherent responses to basic political controversies. 1/
This is also why progressive politicos wind up on the wring side of the so-called 80-20 issues. In their circles it seems like 0-100, few disagree and those who do don’t want to invite ostracism by saying so. The bubble is good for breeding activists, not so good for winning on the broader public. /end
Charlie Kirk’s effectiveness in debates n campus, like Ben Shapiro’s before him, was in large part due to the fact that the campus left is in such an ideological bubble that many students have literally never heard a sharp-witted conservative provide confident and coherent responses to basic political controversies. 1/This is also why progressive politicos wind up on the wring side of the so-called 80-20 issues. In their circles it seems like 0-100, few disagree and those who do don’t want to invite ostracism by saying so. The bubble is good for breeding activists, not so good for winning on the broader public. /end
Charlie Kirk’s effectiveness in debates n campus, like Ben Shapiro’s before him, was in large part due to the fact that the campus left is in such an ideological bubble that many students have literally never heard a sharp-witted conservative provide confident and coherent responses to basic political controversies. 1/ ... This is also why progressive politicos wind up on the wring side of the so-called 80-20 issues. In their circles it seems like 0-100, few disagree and those who do don’t want to invite ostracism by saying so. The bubble is good for breeding activists, not so good for winning on the broader public. /end
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