PhotoAnd even some former fans say Mr. Shapiro is a brilliant polemicist, but in a tribal nation, he’s just one more partisan mobilizing his troops. I could imagine Bill Buckley looking down and smiling.”PhotoPeople often discover Mr. Shapiro by seeing a video clip of him arguing with somebody. Mr. Shapiro broke with Mr. Bannon last year, saying Breitbart had become a propaganda tool for Mr. Trump. But the fact that it lasted so long says a lot about the right’s fury against mainstream liberalism, Mr. Shapiro said. “Trump won the nomination because he was anti-left, not because of any political viewpoints,” Mr. Shapiro said in an interview.

Source: New York Times November 23, 2017 20:37 UTC