“Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.”

American conservative political commentator and media host

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator and media host. He writes for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and he is editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015. He hosts The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News from 2012 until 2016, and he has written 16 non-fiction books.