The Matt Walsh Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Fri, 21 Feb 2025
We're back in DC! Join Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boreing live at CPAC for a special Daily Wire Backstage. As we mark ten years of The Daily Wire, we’ll break down the seismic cultural and political shifts that brought us to this moment—where long-standing battles are finally turning into victories. From the first weeks of Trump’s presidency to the downfall of radical leftist ideology, we’ll take on the biggest questions facing the country today, take yours, and chart the course for what’s next. - - - Today's Sponsors: Balance of Nature - Visit https://www.balanceofnature.com code BACKSTAGE for 35% off your first order + a free bottle of Fiber and Spice. Tax Network USA - For a complimentary consultation, call today at 1 (800) 958-1000 or visit https://www.TNUSA.com/DAILYWIRE Leaf Filter - Get a free estimate, free inspection, and 30% off at https://www.leaffilter.com/BACKSTAGE Thank you, 4547 Whiskey, for sponsoring this broadcast!
What are the key highlights of Trump's presidency according to Ben Shapiro?
Well, folks, you know, I'm not famous for being a particularly optimistic sort. If you've ever listened to my show, I'd say morosity, depression, that may be a feeling that's come over you once in a while listening to my show where I describe what's going on in the country. But I can safely say I have never felt more optimistic about the United States than I do right now.
And that is thanks to President Donald J. Trump. And one of the things that's sort of mysterious about President Trump is the fact that he isn't really an ideological conservative. Now, people like me, I grew up in the movement. I grew up reading Thomas Sowell and Frederick Hayek and reading Russell Kirk. I don't think President Trump has ever sat around reading those people.
I don't think he sits around at night and browses Edmund Burke or anything. And so the question is, why is it that this man, who is not truly an ideological conservative, is the most successful conservative president of my lifetime, bar none? It's a real question.
And I think to understand that, the thing that we need to understand about President Trump is that more than anything else, more than anything else, and in this era, needed more than anything else, President Trump lives in the world of reality.
President Trump has been slandered by the media as somebody who creates fictions of his own and sort of lives within those fictions and says a lot of words that don't always match up with the truth and all that kind of stuff. The reality is that President Trump, in his gut, lives in the real world.
Which is why President Trump wins so often, because if you are going to win, you have to acknowledge reality, because reality always wins. And this is what makes President Trump conservative. Conservatism lines up really, really well with reality.
The reason that President Trump won the last election cycle is because the Democratic Party, the left, completely disconnected themselves from reality, completely disconnected themselves from reality in every possible way. They ran screaming with their hair on fire, their blue hair on fire, away from reality. President Trump embraces reality with both arms.
When it comes to the world of economics, for example, President Trump only cares about success. He cares about economic dynamism. He cares about American businesses being able to build and succeed. And he understands that in order for all those things to happen, you have to free American business from the shackle of regulation and government. You have to allow businesses to innovate.
You have to allow people to rise and fall on their own merit. Meritocracy has to be valued more than, say, identity politics and DEI. President Trump knows that in his guts because he's a business person. President Trump has had to make payroll. Unlike literally every leader of the Democratic Party over the course of my lifetime, he is not a career politician, which means
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