How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them Quotes

“The university system has been monopolized by a group of folks who believe that it’s no longer worthwhile debating the evidence on tax rates, or whether the Laffer curve is right, or whether Keynesian policies actually promote economic growth. They”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Calling you a racist and sexist, a bigot and a homophobe, gives them a sense of satisfaction with their status in the universe, even if they never help a single individual human being.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“This is why it’s so comfortable to be on the left: that unearned sense of moral superiority. Unearned,”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Members of the left are not interested in having a debate about policy. They are not interested in debating what is right or wrong for the country. They are interested in debating you personally. They are interested in castigating you as a nasty human being because you happen to disagree. This”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Essentially, Romney’s campaign slogan was this: “Obama: Good Guy, Bad President.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Conservatives get trapped in this gambit routinely, because they figure that the enemy of their enemy is their friend: if the left is attacking someone, he must be worth defending. But that’s not true. I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don’t feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George W. Bush. It’s like Leftist Tourette’s Syndrome. “Why did Obama blow out the budget?” “BUUUUUUUSHHHH!!!!!”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The left’s arguments are chock full of inconsistencies. Internal inconsistencies – inconsistencies that are inherent to the left’s general worldview. That’s because very few people on the left will acknowledge their actual agenda, which is quite extreme. Leftists prefer to argue half-measures in which they don’t truly believe. For example, they say they want to ban assault weapons to stop gun murders. But that argument is silly, because handguns are used to kill far more people than so-called assault weapons. And yet the left won’t argue in favor of a blanket gun ban, because they know they will lose.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“On same-sex marriage, the question is not how same-sex marriage hurts your marriage – that’s a nonsensical and stupid question, like asking how enslavement of others hurts you personally. The question is whether a child needs a mother and a father. The question is not whether two people who love each other should be given state sanction – even the left recognizes that such a definition is too broad, given that it would include incestuous relationships. The question is why marriage should be redefined, and how same-sex marriage will strengthen the institution.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Rule #3: Frame Your Opponent. I have argued that the left’s entire playbook consists of a single play: characterizing the opposition. It’s incredibly effective. And the only way to get beyond character arguments is to frame your opponent – make it toxic for your opponent to slur you. Then, hopefully, you can move the debate to more substantive territory. This is the vital first step. It is the only first step. It is the reason that the right consistently loses the black and Hispanic vote – not because the right’s policies are so abhorrent to blacks and Hispanics, but because blacks and Hispanics have been told for generations that conservatives hate them.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Now, that’s not because Barack Obama is a warm and fuzzy guy. Even those who surround Barack Obama all day describe him as a cold fish. Obama is not someone who will bring over a bowl of chicken soup when you have the flu; he’s not even the guy who will drive you to the airport when it inconveniences him. Yet, somehow, he was considered the more empathetic of the two candidates. Why? Because Romney was perceived as so darn mean.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Now, back to the American voter. Let’s assume you’ve been watching this messaging battle, and now you have two choices: Barack Obama, Not a Very Good President vs. Mitt Romney, The Worst Guy Ever. Who are you going to vote for? Most people would pick “nice guy, bad politician” over Mussolini. And they did.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“So, let’s assume for a moment that you’re a typical American voter: you care more about Miley Cyrus twerking on the Video Music Awards than you do about the vagaries of Obamacare. Let’s assume all you’ve really seen about the elections is the coverage in the mainstream press and what the candidates said about each other during the debates.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The reason that conservatives lost the 2012 election was garishly simple: most people in America don’t follow politics that closely. What they see about the various candidates are what the candidates say about each other, and what the media say about the candidates.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“In 2009, Obama surrogate Jim Messina told Democratic Senators that they could defend Obamacare as stridently as possible – because, after all, “If you get hit,” Messina said, “we will punch back twice as hard.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument