Clip Of Ben Shapiro Struggling In A Debate With An 8-Year-Old Child Goes Viral

Conservative commentator and struggling music critic Ben Shapiro sat down with a group of Florida elementary school children over the weekend, ostensibly to "teach them politics," though it was clear to some that he intended to impress his ideology onto them.

The video finds Shapiro giving a basic version of his ideology for kids: the Democrats are bad, taxation is theft, etc. The whole thing is slightly bizarre and punctuated by children who appear to hold views that are further right-wing than Shapiro's, but the video escaped Shapiro's following and found a wider audience thanks to a tense minute where a child appears to "DESTROY" Shapiro when it comes to his views on taxes.

get sniped by a kid pic.twitter.com/Q6Er1hI6QM

— Dylan Burns🕊️🏳️‍🌈 (@DylanBurns1776) January 30, 2022

“The government takes all your money and gives you very little in return," starts Shapiro, to which a child bluntly says, "That's not true."

"Well, it's kind of true," said Shapiro while the kids giggle and one unseen child says, "That's what taxes are for," with a verbal eye roll.

"It depends on the kind of government," Shapiro argued. "Taxes are theft."

After saying the government is supposed to use taxes on things like the police, Shapiro goes on to say they instead spend it on "silly things in their head." The camera then cuts to a post-lecture one-on-one with a child who says, "Yeah, he's way off base about that."

Shapiro then brings up California, while the children go, "Ooh, I like California!," but Shapiro says of the state, "Monsters roam the streets and there's garbage strewn everywhere." The clip ends with him proudly declaring, "You've just learned more about the government than you'll ever learn in college."

The longer video shows the kids mostly soaking up what Shapiro says, but the clip shared to Twitter had Shapiro's critics howling.

Ben Shapiro lost a debate to a 8 year old pic.twitter.com/RJ1cDbpQ72

— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) January 30, 2022

Ben Shapiro getting owned by children is my favorite thing about 2022. . .so far. pic.twitter.com/qcFgNNnPwF

— The Liberal Poet ✍️ (@TheLiberalPoet) January 31, 2022

BEN SHAPIRO OWNED BY LITERAL CHILD IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS pic.twitter.com/A0PjIcKwo0

— Budrino Politics (@BudrinoPolitics) January 30, 2022

Whoever’s kid this is who shut down Ben Shapiro’s winey ass 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/dBWOWxkP1H

— itsallrealitv (@itsallrealitv) January 31, 2022

Asked after his sit-down with the kids if it's more difficult explaining government to kids or Democrats, Shapiro opined, "Oh, Democrats, because they're so certain about the things that they know and those things are just wrong."