Well, well, well… looks like Ben Shapiro just learned what happens when you poke the MAGA bear.
The latest conservative catfight is a doozy, and it’s unfolding right in front of us: Shapiro, always the free-market wunderkind, decided it’d be a good idea to publicly take a swipe at President Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro — and surprise, it didn’t go well. What started as a Navarro jab at Elon Musk during a CNBC interview spiraled into a full-blown ideological clash, complete with playground insults, economic policy debates, and more than a little ego.
Navarro, ever the bulldog, dismissed Musk as basically just a “car assembler” who relies on foreign parts. Not exactly wrong, by the way — Tesla may be flashy, but it’s not exactly “Made in America” down to the bolts. Musk, never one to pass on a Twitter brawl, fired back like a moody teenager, calling Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks” and clowning him for using “Ron Vara,” a fictional persona Navarro created in his books to illustrate his economic arguments. (A little weird, sure, but tell me with a straight face Musk doesn’t roleplay as Iron Man in his spare time.)
Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks. @IfindRetards @RealPNavarro https://t.co/gECgtZt5Sc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2025
Then enters Shapiro — a guy who loves to straddle the conservative-libertarian line while trying not to offend anyone in a yarmulke. He jumped in to side with Musk, tweeting, “Except one of those boys has created businesses valued at upwards of a trillion dollars, and one made up a fictional alter ego named ‘Ron Vara’ to back his cockamamie tariff schemes.” Bold move, Ben.
Except one of those boys has created businesses valued at upwards of a trillion dollars and one made up a fictional alter ego named "Ron Vara" to back his cockamamie tariff schemes https://t.co/N4CnTB7bvP
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 8, 2025
But guess what? The MAGA base didn’t take it kindly. You can say what you want about Navarro, but he’s our guy — the America First trade warrior who wasn’t afraid to call out China, slap tariffs on globalist leeches, and actually put American workers first. The guy literally helped write Trump’s trade playbook. And now he’s rotting in prison for refusing to play ball with the kangaroo court known as the J6 Committee.
Meanwhile, Shapiro’s out here siding with Elon Musk — a guy who wants open borders for engineers and parts made on the cheap in Shanghai. Great move if your goal is to juice Tesla’s stock. Not so great if you actually care about U.S. manufacturing or sovereignty.
Karoline Leavitt, asked about the brawl during Tuesday’s White House press briefing, tried to play nice — “boys will be boys” and all that — but let’s be honest: there’s a war brewing inside the conservative movement. And it’s not between right and left — it’s between America First patriots and the “business-first” libertarian class who still don’t understand why we’re sick of being sold out.
Bottom line: Shapiro can tweet all he wants, but the base sees what’s going on. This isn’t about personalities. It’s about whether we stand up for American workers — or bow to globalist billionaires.
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