In my misguided attempt to understand the Right, I once listened to folks like Shapiro, Owens, and even Milo. Just to try and get a grip on their perspective. Crowder is another I listened to, and the Canadian professor Peterson. Even watched a few Man’s Rights videos and watched the Doc “The Red Pill”.
As a Moderate Leftist, I do find a lot of the “cancel culture” annoying, and they can make valid points about censorship and political correctness.
But the longer I listened, the more I realized (along with feedback from some good souls here like Tommy) that this was a veneer underlying an ugly core of nationalism, hatred and intolerance. Pretty arguments gift wrapped around a package of contempt and shallow logic, presented in a palatable way to attract those unwilling to search for facts and truths the old fashioned way, by thinking for themselves.
It was a way to make someone feel they knew more, but actually knowing less. Clever, really. And Shapiro and Owens are the masters of this form of manipulation.